Dear Colleagues,
Silvio and I have been working hard to complete the first release of
*DoCO, the Document Components Ontology*, a new member of SPAR, the
Semantic Publishing and Referencing Ontologies (http://bit.ly/9d8qAi),
in time for Monday's teleconference. I apologise that we did not
achieve this sooner, to give you more time to study it.
We have based our choice of DoCO classes on the following sources:
* Anita's excellent work analysing the varying document structures
used in journal articles from a variety of STM publishers;
* Tudor and Sigi's SALT Rhetorical Ontology, SRO
(http://salt.semanticauthoring.org/ontologies/sro);
* terms in the National Library of Medicine DTD, widely used by STM
publishers and by Pubmed Central for XML markup of documents; and
* our own common sense and experience as authors and readers of
research articles and books.
DoCO v1.0, which is now available at http://purl.org/spar/doco/,
attempts to provide a comprehensive description of the main structural
and rhetorical components used in scholarly documents, employing as
class names terms that are familiar to scholars. It used rhetorical
terms from the SALT Rhetorical Ontology, to which it adds its own
rhetorical and structural terms, and imports Silvio's Pattern Ontology
(http://www.essepuntato.it/2008/12/pattern) to define formal structural
patterns for segmenting a document into its component parts.
Opening DoCO in a web browser will display a human-readable version of
the ontology, while opening it in an ontology editor such as Protege
will display the tree structure of the OWL 2 DL ontology itself.
Additionally, to aid your understanding, we have published an
architectural diagram of DoCO at http://bit.ly/b383VR, and a set of
explanatory figures, showing how DoCO terms relate to different parts of
a recent article from the Journal of Cell Biology, as a PDF document
available at http://bit.ly/d0VhJr.
We look forward to discussing this with you on Monday.
Kind regards,
David
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Dr David Shotton david.shotton@zoo.ox.ac.uk
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