Re: Modelling library, catalogue, record, and item

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Jakob Voss <jakob.voss@gbv.de> wrote:


> I quickly hacked an RDF wrapper to some of our bibliographic databases.
> just a few million records. There is no SPARQL, content negotiation etc.
> because I first want to fix the model.
>
> Maybe you can have a look at this entry (in Turtle syntax)
>
> http://uri.gbv.de/database/opac-de-7:ppn:609060929
>
> I found there are at least four entities to model, but the existing
> ontologies are pretty disappointing for library data:
>

An interesting, rather deep ontology of information related entities is the
one developed for Cyc.

Documentation can be found here:
http://www.cyc.com/cycdoc/vocab/info-vocab.html

Tutorial slides can be found here:
http://www.cyc.com/doc/tut/ppoint/Information_files/v3_document.htm

OWL renderings- see e.g.

   - InformationBearingThing-
   http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvkNufpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA
   - PropositionalInformationThing -
   http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViAqJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA
   - Conceptual Work -
   http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwClAZJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA
   - AbstractInformationStructure -
   http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwQGTzJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA
   - IndexedInformationSource -
   http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwD_r7ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA

Simon