Re: Question about a link relationship attribute

Dear Eric,

CiTO [1] is not the appropriate ontology to use.  As Jodi knows, we have 
now developed a suite of Semantic Publishing and Referencing (SPAR) 
Ontologies [2] that permits you describe what you want.  CiTO is part of 
that suite, but is strictly limited to characterizing citations between 
publication entities, not for characterizing bibliographic references to 
the objects of such citations, for which BiRO [3], the Bibliographic 
Reference Ontology is appropriate.

BiRO also permits bibliographic references (incomplete FRBR expressions, 
for example, lacking ISBN) to be related to bibliographic records about 
the same entity (hopefully complete, including ISBN, copyright 
statement, etc.), bibliographic references to be described as part of 
reference lists, and bibliographic records to be described as part of 
library catalogues and other bibliographic collections, as the 
explanatory diagram at [4] shows.

Additionally, FaBiO [5], the FRBR-aligned Bibliographic Ontology, can be 
used to describe bibliographic entities like journal articles and 
books.  In this it resembles BIBO, but it is more expressive, since it 
uses the FRBR hierarchy.

If you had a web page that was indeed a local representation of a whole 
book, you could say:

    @prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .
    @prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
    @prefix dcterms: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> .
    @prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
    @prefix frbr: <http://purl.org/spar/frbr/> .
    @prefix fabio: <http://purl.org/spar/fabio/> .

    <http://***>  #  Publisher's URL for the book
           rdf:type fabio:Book
         ; dcterms:publisher [ a foaf:Organization ; foaf:name "***" ]
         ; fabio:hasPublicationYear "2010"^^xsd:gYear
         ; *frbr:alternate <http://***)>* .   # *URL of your local HTML
    copy of the book*

However, your examples (e.g. of an OPAC entry or a bookstore item page) 
implies that you do not really mean the local representation of the 
/entire book /on a web page, but rather the local representation of a 
*bibliographic reference to the book *or a *bibliographic record 
describing the book*.  In the latter case, you could say:

    @prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .
    @prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
    @prefix dcterms: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> .
    @prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
    @prefix frbr: <http://purl.org/spar/frbr/> .
    @prefix fabio: <http://purl.org/spar/fabio/> .
    @prefix biro: <http://purl.org/net/bibo/>.

    <http://***>  #  Publisher's URL for the book
           rdf:type fabio:Book
         ; dcterms:publisher [ a foaf:Organization ; foaf:name "***" ]
         ; fabio:hasPublicationYear "2010"^^xsd:gYear
    *    ; bibo:isReferencedBy <http://*****)>**  # URL of your local
    web page containing bibliographic reference to the book
         ; bibo:isReferencedBy <http://www.amazon.co.uk/*****)>  # **URL
    of Amazon page containing **bibliographic **reference to the book
         ; bibo:isReferencedBy <http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/*****)> .  #
    **URL of Oxford University's OPAC catalogue item about the book
    *

If you send us a real-world example, we will be happy to return a SPAR 
encoding.

Hope this helps,

David

[1] http:/purl.org/spar/cito
[2] 
http://opencitations.wordpress.com/2010/10/14/introducing-the-semantic-publishing-and-referencing-spar-ontologies/
[3] http://purl.org/spar/bibo/
[4] http://purl.org/spar/fabio/
[5] 
https://sempublishing.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/sempublishing/BiRO/BiRO.png



On 15/02/2011 14:17, Jodi Schneider wrote:
> Hi Eric, (& adding Silvio, David to cc:)
>
> On 15 Feb 2011, at 13:58, Eric Hellman wrote:
>
>> Some lazy questions- I'm sure people have thought and discussed before.
>>
>> I was just acquainting myself with cito, and was wondering what 
>> people thought was the best link relationship  to use for the case of 
>> a web page which is a local representation of a book, as might be 
>> found on an OPAC item page, bookstore item page, or a discussion page 
>> on social network page. None of the cito attributes fit- same with bibo.
>
> I agree, based on [1].
>
>>
>> Or is the web page just rdf:about the book?
>
> This seems reasonable to me.
>
>> If I put an "like" button on the page, is the user liking the book or 
>> the discussion about the book?
>
> On the other hand, I do agree that this is a problem. But it may not 
> be clear to the *user* which one they're doing, so maybe that's ok. 
> I'm curious to hear other views, though!
>
> -Jodi
>
> [1] http:/purl.org/spar/cito
>
>>
>> Eric Hellman
>> President, Gluejar, Inc.
>> 41 Watchung Plaza, #132
>> Montclair, NJ 07042
>> USA
>>
>> eric@hellman.net <mailto:openurl@gmail.com>
>> http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/
>> @gluejar
>>
>>
>>
>
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