Notes or annotations about a resource.
This is done through a restriction on academic degree to allow the values from to be foaf:organization to be used as the range.
For individual seminars, use seminar instead. core:ConferenceSeries and core:SeminarSeries are very similar.
Applied Microeconomics Seminars; Future of Rural New York Seminar Series
An organized series of a meeting for an exchange of ideas, typically put on by a department or center.
An chapter number
A person who is enrolled in an educational institution.
Use only if no specific subclasses of core:Student describe the person.
American Samoa; Anguilla; Aruba; Guadeloupe; Puerto Rico; United States Virgin Islands
UN Cartographic Section
"The United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories is a list of countries that, according to the United Nations, are non-decolonized." "Decolonization can be achieved by attaining independence, integrating with the administering power or another state, or establishing a "free association" status" - Source Wikipedia starting here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_list_of_Non-Self-Governing_Territories.
Countries that, according to the United Nations, are non-decolonized.
This is done with a restriction on Educational Training.
Accounting & Research Services Assistant; Director of Information Technology
Staff, support, and other non-academic positions.
A position classified as professional, staff, support, or any other non-academic role
Territories not belonging to self-governing, non-self-governing, and disputed classes.
Short description taken from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geopolitical_ontology.
A sub property of identifier (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SICI).
Serial Item and Contribution Identifier
Definition take from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_agency.
A government agency is a permanent or semi-permanent organization in the machinery of government that is responsible for the oversight and administration of specific functions.
Public description modified from the information on this page: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-swbp-skos-core-guide-20050510/#sechierarchy .
Version 1.0 of the ontology includes the following new information: 1) countries DBPedia ID, 2) currency names and codes, 3) adjectives of nationality and 4) basic statistical data such as population, GDP, land area and agricultural area.
FAO's geopolitical ontology version 1.0 was populated with FAO, UN and internationally recognized data sources.
The use of the ontology is governed by FAO's copyright. For any queries regarding the content, sources or use, please contact FAO-country-profiles@fao.org or visit http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles.
FAO DISCLAIMER: The designations employed and the presentation of material do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area, or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.
prior version : " http://aims.fao.org/aos/geopolitical_v09.owl"
version 1.0
Definition take from: http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/#term_based_near . foaf indicates that the status of this term is "unstable". "The based_near relationship relates two "spatial things" (anything that can be somewhere), the latter typically described using the geo:lat / geo:long geo-positioning vocabulary (http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#). This allows us to say describe the typical latitute and longitude of, say, a Person (people are spatial things - they can be places) without implying that a precise location has been given."
Used to link an agent, related to bibliographic things, to a place where it is based near: can be a city, a monument, a building, etc.
Administrative Official reviews the grant application for accuracy before the signing official submits the final application. May be the same person as the signing official. Resides in either the central research administration office or academic departments. From the Glossary of NIH Terms.
The most general classification of a person
Starting page number within a continuous page range.
Fisheries Global Information System http://www.fao.org/figis/servlet/RefServlet
Afghanistan hasMinLongitude 60.48. Source: http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles/geopol_v10/dataproperties/geopolitical-hasMinLongitude.html.
Short Definition is the Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) definition
An unpublished Document, which may also be submitted to a publisher for publication.
Works prepared by hand including handwritten or typescript drafts of pre-publication papers or works not otherwise reproduced in multiple copies
Encompasses talk, speech, lecture, slide lecture, conference presentation
Smaller administrative division into which a country may be divided.
Boroughs; townships; districts; the Midwest
For example, the Midwest, northeast U.S.
Short definition was partially taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subnational_entity.
A type of geopolitical area. Not meant for use. Use subclasses within.
No definition was found of this specific class. It's probably not meant for use in classifying areas. A subclass should be selected.
Not meant for use in classifying areas. But can display all territories.
source: http://issues.library.cornell.edu/browse/VIVOONT-86.
FAO terminology. FAOTERM. http://www.fao.org/faoterm/
A second property with the same name as this property has been declared in the dcterms: namespace (http://purl.org/dc/terms/). See the Introduction to the document "DCMI Metadata Terms" (http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/) for an explanation.
something that is printed or published and distributed, esp. a given number of a periodical
It is usually year1-year2 (year is using 4-digit to represent). When the superclass core:TimeInterval is removed, make this a subclass of core:DateTimeInterval.
The period considered by an academic institution to be its primary academic cycle.
UN Statistics Division http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49alpha.htm
UN Statistics Division http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49alpha.htm Source: http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles/geopol_v10/dataproperties/geopolitical-codeISO3.html.
FAOSTAT http://faostat.fao.org
source: http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles/geopol_v10/dataproperties/geopolitical-codeFAOSTAT.html.
As of 26May2010, it looks like core:occursDuring isn't being used anywhere. It doesn't have a domain or range, and the "show classes with restriction on this property" doesn't show any restrictions.
Currently being used by a restriction on organization.
A short written piece focused on an event or announcement of note, having a defined publication time and of less enduring interest than a news feature.
ISO 3166-1 http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/iso_3166_code_lists.htm
ISO 3166-1 http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/iso_3166_code_lists.htm Source: http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles/geopol_v10/dataproperties/geopolitical-codeISO2.html.
Use when the full date and time are known.
Authorship of journal articles, books and other original works is a means by which academics communicate the results of their scholarly work, establish priority for their discoveries, and build their reputation among their peers. This class allows for linking an author to a publication while indicating information about that author's authorship.
Contains the authors name, their rank in the publication, and whether or not they are a corresponding author on the publication.
Currently any abstract name is given to members of this class. This could change in the future.
A seminar, discussion group, or the like, that emphasizes zxchange of ideas and the demonstration and application of techniques, skills, etc.
Bibo Definition: A seminar, discussion group, or the like, that emphasizes exchange of ideas and the demonstration and application of techniques, skills, etc.
PubMed Identifier
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PMID.
aka movie.
Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC); The Five Colleges of Ohio
A group of independent organizations working together toward a common goal.
A group of related documents issued at regular intervals.
Short description taken from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geopolitical_ontology. Example also take from this Wikipedia page.
Teritories subject to disagreement and debate.
A large contiguous landmass that is at least partially surrounded by water, together with any islands on its continental shelf.
The seven commonly recognized continents are Africa; Antarctica; Asia; Australia; Europe; North America; South America
Short Definition take from http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/continent.
Used to link a bibliographic resource to the language used to express it.
Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary such as RFC 4646 [RFC4646].
This is done through a restriction on the foaf:Person class.
As of 23 May 2010, the domain was empty. So, currently, people have to first create their presentation role first and add themselves as the presenter, then their presentation activities will show up on their profile page.
A unit devoted primarily to extension activities, whether for outreach or research.
Public Description for bibo:distributor taken from here: http://bibotools.googlecode.com/svn/bibo-ontology/trunk/doc/index.html .
The public description was taken from here: http://bibotools.googlecode.com/svn/bibo-ontology/trunk/doc/index.html
A legal decision that affirms a ruling.
Something designed, built, installed, etc., to serve a specific function or activity affording a convenience or service.
Distinct from the organization that runs it; e.g., a laboratory may be an organization but may be run by another organization and only consist of facilities housing equipment or services. Can be a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular activity. Use the specific Building or Room whenever possible. Short definition from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/facility.
Use subclasses of core:Facility subclasses instead of this class if possible
A gathering of people for a defined purpose, not necessarily public or announced
An award, honor, or distinction received by a person on a particular date (not the award itself as given repeatedly, and not a grant award).
A specific award on a particular date. The rdfs:label (individual name) should follow the format year (****), award_name. A description is optional (e.g., shared with Joe Jones)
Regularly updated online journal or newsletter by one or more writers, called bloggers, containing articles and commentary of interest to the blogger
Relates an event to associated documents; for example, conference to a paper.
Public Description from source: http://bibotools.googlecode.com/svn/bibo-ontology/trunk/doc/index.html . Bibo considers the bibo:presents and the bibo:presentedAt unstable terms. It also indicates that bibo:presents is a sub-property of event:product.
A descriptive name given in place of or in addition to the official name of an area. FAO terminology. FAOTERM. http://www.fao.org/faoterm/. definition comes from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_name.
Either city or town - a thickly populated area having fixed boundaries and certain local powers of government.
That is a position held by an academic faculty member who works for administration.
An academic administrative position (associate dean, etc.) as distinct from a professional administrative position (non-academic)
A network server is one example. Medical schools and research laboratories can list professional equipment, such as microscopes.
Something provided for specific purpose, task or occupation.
A description (often numeric) that locates an item within a containing document or collection.
definition from: http://bibotools.googlecode.com/svn/bibo-ontology/trunk/doc/index.html
A written composition in prose, usually nonfiction, on a specific topic, forming an independent part of a periodical or book
Short Definition modified from the bibo ontology.
A written composition in prose, usually nonfiction, on a specific topic, forming an independent part of a book or other publication, as a newspaper or magazine.
An employment activity, whether compensated or not. Short definition comes from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Position, and has been modified.
Particular position in an organization, commonly identified by job title, and normally associated with a job description that details the tasks and responsibilities that go with the position.
Director of Admissions and Placement; Associate University Librarian
The thesis degree.
We are not defining, using an enumeration, the range of the bibo:degree to the defined list of bibo:ThesisDegree. We won't do it because we want people to be able to define new degress if needed by some special usecases. Creating such an enumeration would restrict this to happen.
The source of the public description and this info is found here: http://bibotools.googlecode.com/svn/bibo-ontology/trunk/doc/index.html. Bibo considers this term "unstable". The bibo editorial note is: "We are not defining, using an enumeration, the range of the bibo:degree to the defined list of bibo:ThesisDegree. We won't do it because we want people to be able to define new degress if needed by some special usecases. Creating such an enumeration would restrict this to happen."
An organizational unit (as opposed to the physical facility) that performs research, provides services, or processes materials
Note: Bibo:editor is used as the inverse of core:editorOf. Public Description for bibo:editor was obtained from here: http://bibotools.googlecode.com/svn/bibo-ontology/trunk/doc/index.html .
Relates a document to an event; for example, a paper to a conference.
the statistics about area used for production of food and goods through farming. measure agricultural area.
Public Definition source (http://www.answers.com/topic/publisher).
Use for teaching roles other than specific for-credit courses within a person's home institution.
Use for teaching experiences other than specific for-credit courses within a person's home institution.
A named collection of data, usually containing only one type of data
Computer program and its related documentation; directs the operation of a computer
An agreement involving specific deliverables and payment
An instance or a session in which testimony and arguments are presented, esp. before an official, as a judge in a lawsuit.
Definiton from Bibo here: http://bibotools.googlecode.com/svn/bibo-ontology/trunk/doc/index.html
A document stating the facts and points of law of a client's case
A written argument submitted to a court.
This is planned for use in version 1.2. At that time it will need a data property with a range of xsd:dateTime.
FAO terminology. FAOTERM. http://www.fao.org/faoterm/. Individual includes AMU, Afghanistan, Africa, Albania, and etc.
My extension program consists of developing and reporting disease management strategies that are both economically and environmentally sound for fresh market vegetable production. We hope that some of this testing will result in practices adaptable for organic production.
Used for a single narrative summary of outreach, typically covering a wide range of activities and time periods; use Outreach Provider Role for information on individual activities
The suffix of a name
Amazon Standard Identification Number
Amazon standard identification number. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Standard_Identification_Number.
An activity of an individual within his or her profession or institution; use outreach provider role for community service or other activities outside the profession.
Member of the International Conference on Complex Systems Organizing Committee
A person working in a position of librarian or information professional, or academic or technical expert in support of providing information services or materials.
A scholarly academic article, typically published in a journal.
Written by scholars for other scholars, typically published in an academic journal with an abstract and bibliography
Short description taken from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geopolitical_ontology. There is some confusion with core:Geographic Location, core:Geographic Region and this class.
Africa; Americas; Asia; Caribbean; Polynesia; Middle Africa; Northern America; Southern Asia
Region divided by a demarcated area of the Earth.
Digital Object Identifier
The idea here is that while dcterms:description may involve length descriptions, this for short (two or three word) descriptions that could go in a bibliographic entry.
This applies to the non_self governing class and has no inverse. Source of this info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geopolitical_ontology.
Role of a person designated by a grantee to direct a project or activity being supported by a grant, and who is accountable to the grantee for the proper conduct of the project or activity. Also known as Program Director or Project Director.
Definition take from here: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/school.
An institution for instruction in a particular skill or field.
source: http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles/geopol_v10/dataproperties/geopolitical-codeFAOTERM.html. "FAO terminology. FAOTERM. http://www.fao.org/faoterm/"
An article reviewing one or more other information resources (a book, one or more other articles, movies, etc)
<dcterms:format> <dcterms:MediaTypeOrExtent> <rdf:value>text/html</rdf:value> <rdfs:label>HTML</rdfs:label> </dcterms:MediaTypeOrExtent> </dcterms:format>
Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary such as the list of Internet Media Types [MIME].
Used to describe the format of a bibliographic resource.
Bibo has the domain of bibo:issue as the class Issue, but an example on their site uses it with Article, referring to the issue number "4"
Definition taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University
University of Florida; Washington University in St. Louis
An institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects, and provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education.
Definition from here: http://bibotools.googlecode.com/svn/bibo-ontology/trunk/doc/index.html
It's anticipated that the subclasses will be used when classifying items. And, all locations can be viewable via this class.
Use subclasses of core:Location when classsifying items.
A document created as a basis for discussion or a very early draft of a formal paper
statistics for one territory. parent property for GDP. agricultural area, and etc.
Used for a single narrative summary of teaching, typically covering a wide range of courses including for credit and non-credit teaching over multiple semesters; the "teaches" property links a person directly with an instance of a Semester Class, typically from an institutional database of record; then use Teacher Role for information about a person's role in non-credit teaching or their specific contribution to individual courses
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issn
International Standard Serial Number
source of definition: http://www.uspto.gov/main/glossary/#p . The following site has patent number formats: http://www.uspto.gov/patents/ebc/kindcodesum.jsp .
Articles usually contain abstracts and bibliographies. Includes peer-reviewed, non-peer-reviewed, and open access journals. Journals are usually indexed in the major academic databases such as PubMed and Web of Science.
A periodical of scholarly journal Articles.
Contains original scholarly research or review articles by experts in the field
Journal of Information Science; IEEE Intelligent System; Scientometrics
A periodical of documents, usually issued daily or weekly, containing current news, editorials, feature articles, and usually advertising.
Contains news articles, opinions, features, advertising, and is usually issued daily or weekly
It has sub-properties of codeAGROVOC and codeISO2. source:http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles/geopol_v10/dataproperties/geopolitical-hasCode.html.
An agent that receives a communication document.
Two or more events that follow on one after the other or are connected one after the other.
A generic class which may include a conference series, a course section, a seminar series, or a workshop series. When possible, use one of these more specific classes.
Only use if no specific subclasses of core:EventSeries desribe the activity.
Enter building name. If the building's name is a number (as in many governmental organizations such as national laboratories and military bases), then enter it. Do not confuse with the number that appears in a postal address.
Building that provides a particular service or is used for a particular activity.
Martha Van Rensselaer Hall (VR); Caldwell Hall (CD); University Auditorium
As of 26May2010, restrictions for the use of core:hasSubjectArea were on equipment, event, grant, information resource and service. However, it looks like core:subjectAreaFor is not being used.
Used to link an agent to its homepage (which is a web page accessible using a URL).
The domain for core:outcome is the union of Event and Process; that same union of classes is the range for core:outcomeOf
The bibo:reviewOf public description was found here: http://bibotools.googlecode.com/svn/bibo-ontology/trunk/doc/index.html . As of 26 May 2010, bibo:reviewOf is used with the class Review, but core:reviewIn doesn't seem to be being used.
This connects person to their academic degree through this educational training, but can also be used when the process does not result in a degree.
The process of receiving education or training. Has properties for department or school, major field of degree, year, and supplemental information.
A paper presented at a conference; optionally collected into a Proceedings or a special Journal issue
A group of Webpages accessible on the Web.
A group of webpages available within a specific parent address or URL on the World Wide Web
Work consisting of collections of previously published works
A document that simultaneously contains other documents.
An area of corporate activity organized as an administrative or functional unit.
Definition modified from http://www.thefreedictionary.com/division. It is difficult to tell the difference between a division and a department.
Cardiovascular Medicine (division within medicine)
Usually issued periodically, prepared by or for a group or institution to present information to a specific audience, often also made available to the press and public
An informal organization brought together for the purposes of a project or event.
In the future we may be able to make this a defined class that would not need to be directly asserted, but the consensus seems to be that some organizations "are" clinical and some "are" research organizations and that the distinction is important enough to warrant the additional class and class assertions
Any organization with a significant clinical function as a matter of course and not just through occasional clinical roles
A Cornell graduate field (http://vivo.cornell.edu/index.jsp?home=65535&collection=820)
An ongoing academic initiative not formalized with department or division status.
Definition take from: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hospital.
An institution that provides medical, surgical, or psychiatric care and treatment for the sick or the injured.
Different from general academic degree, thesis degree is achieved through one's completed thesis. Thesis is a document submitted in support of candidature for a degree or professional qualification presenting the author's research and findings(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesis_or_dissertation).
The academic degree of a Thesis
Alchohol Education Center; Center for Arts and Public Policy; Hearing Research Center
A place where a particular activity or service is concentrated.
Short Definition take from http://www.thefreedictionary.com/center.
Used to describe the title of a bibliographic resource
In current practice, this term is used primarily with literal values; however, there are important uses with non-literal values as well. As of December 2007, the DCMI Usage Board is leaving this range unspecified pending an investigation of options.
For example an HR job title for a person might be - Assistant University Librarian, and the preferred job title for that same person could be - Physical Sciences Librarian.
Works created to satisfy the requirements for an academic certification or degree; also called dissertation
A document created to summarize research findings associated with the completion of an academic degree.
Short Definition from OCLC Input Standards, EntW
Public Description source is here: http://bibotools.googlecode.com/svn/bibo-ontology/trunk/doc/index.html. According to Bibo, it's domain is bibo:collection or bibo:document.
Owner of a document or a collection of documents.
A possible working example: The conference proceeding of the SPIE was generated from the conference - International Society for Optical Engineering.
Part of the public description for bibo:organizer comes from here: http://bibotools.googlecode.com/svn/bibo-ontology/trunk/doc/index.html .
UN Statistics Division http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49chang.htm
An example of this usage can be found here: http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles/geopol_v10/objectproperties/geopolitical-isPredecessorOf.html. And, the example there is "Czechslovakia isPredecessorOf Czech_Republic_the;Democratic_Yemen isPredecessorOf Yemen".
Only use if no specific subclasses of core:Role describe the role.
A person's or organization's type of contribution to an endeavor
Only use this broad role class if no subclasses of role describe the item being classified.
A graphical depiction of geographic features, scientific discipline, scientific data analytical results
A graphical depiction of geographic features.
The Short Definition is how the bibo ontology defines Map. It has been extended to include more broader concept of map which includes science maps, social network maps.
Short Description taken from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geopolitical_ontology. This is also the same as core:Country.
Afghanistan; Antigua and Barbuda; Cameroon; Iceland; Jamaica; Nigeria; United States of America
A structured file of information or a set of logically related data stored and retrieved using computer-based means
As of 26May2010,using the "show classes with restriction on this property" button, it looks like core:hasPrerequisite is not being used, and it has no domain and range. The same thing goes for core:prerequisiteFor.
A meeting for consultation or discussion.
2010 International Congress on Autoimmunity; American Libraries Association 2009
core:Seminar and bibo:Conference are very similar.
Definition modified from the definition here: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/department. It is difficult to tell the difference between and department and a division.
A distinct, usually specialized group of a large organization.
Legal (department within a company); Use for any non-academic department
An online article or commentary appearing on a blog
Collection of documents or information resources that have a unified identity
Collection of documents or information resources that have a unified identity. Archives, museums and libraries often acquire collections on specific subjects and from distinguished authors or researchers. Also includes collections of resources bundled into a license.
Hill Ornithology Collection; Wiley Interscience Online Books Biochemisty Collection
A collection of Documents or Collections
submitted; accepted; in-press; published; invited; refereed.
The status of the publication of a document.
A private company is one that is privately-owned, and thus, is not publicly-traded in the stock market. Members of the general public cannot purchase stock in a private company unless that company chooses to go public and become a public company.
Publix Super Markets; Ernst & Young; PricewaterhouseCoopers
Definition obtained here: http://answers.ask.com/Business/Finance/what_is_a_private_company. Examples of private companies found here: http://www.forbes.com/2008/11/03/largest-private-companies-biz-privates08-cx_sr_1103private_land.html
An academic degree at any level, both as reported by individuals for employment and as offered by academic degree programs.
Through the listserv discussion initiated by Brian, we decided to use the StandardDegree.txt list found by Holly. It has multiple abbreviations for some degrees, so for now we are going to show the degree with the abbreviation as a qualifier at the end of the term.
Enactments of legislative bodies, published in either statute or code form
A legal document proposing or enacting a law or a group of laws.
Minnesota; Michigan; Indiana; New York; Quebec; Manitoba; Ontario
Source of the Short Definition: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/state.
One of a number of areas or communities having their own governments and forming a federation under a sovereign government, as in the US.
Ending page number within a continuous page range.
An audio document; aka record.
A document containing an authoritative determination (as a decree or judgment) made after consideration of facts or law.
The written determination of a case, motion or claim by a court or tribunal
An audio-visual document; film, video, and so forth.
Source of the Short Definition: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/country. This is also the same as geopolitical.owl:self_governing.
An area of land distinguished by its political autonomy. Politically independent territories.
Use subclasses of core:Geographic Region subclasses instead of this class if possible.
Removed the word "stable" because disputed territories from geopolitical.owl are included. This could imply that the geographic coordinates could change. This definition was originally in core:Geographic Location. I simply copied the definition from there. I think core:Geographic Location and core:Geographic Region are both the same and only one is needed. There is also geopolitical.owl:geographical_region which further causes confusion.
A location having coordinates in geographic space.
Issue date for a patent. A patent can have only one issue date.
Examples shows a book has French language version. Public description source: http://bibotools.googlecode.com/svn/bibo-ontology/trunk/doc/index.html .
Relates a translated document to the original document.
http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/#term_lastName. Note from foaf: "The lastName property is provided (alongside firstName) as a mechanism to support legacy data that cannot be easily interpreted in terms of the (otherwise preferred) familyName and givenName properties. The concepts of 'first' and 'last' names do not work well across cultural and linguistic boundaries; however they are widely used in addressbooks and databases."
Producer of a document or a collection of documents.
Public Description source: http://bibotools.googlecode.com/svn/bibo-ontology/trunk/doc/index.html .
UN cartographic maps (http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/map/profile/world.pdf)
Indicates territories that share borders.
A defined class of organizations that fund Grants.
Definition found here: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/publisher
A person or company whose business is the publishing of books, periodicals, engravings, computer software, etc.
Elsevier; Harper & Row; Indiana University Press
A student organization is an organization, operated by students at a university, whose membership normally consists only of students.
Definition take from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_society
Uniform Resource Locator (URL) specifies where an identified resource is available and the mechanism for retrieving it.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geopolitical_ontology. Indicates a territory is within a certain group such as Italy isInGroup European Union. Or the inverse, the European Union hasMember Italy.
The value of the datatype property *validUntil* associated to a particular area (territory or group) indicates the area's last year of validity. In case the area is currently valid, this value is set by default to 9999.
The electronic ISSN number of a periodical.
eissn stands for Electronic International Standard Serial Number. source: http://www.definition-of.com/EISSN
A patent filing date. A patent can only have one filing date.
Short Definition copied from bibo ontology
A compilation of documents published from an event, such as a conference.
An Institute normally has a research focus but may also fulfill instructional or outreach roles.
This class will display all the instances in the subclasses below it, as well as any organizations that were added as part of this generic class because there wasn't a specific class available.
Only use if no specific subclasses of foaf:organization desribe the organization.
A generic class encompassing several types of organizations.
Ued to describe an organization related to bibliographic items such as a publishing company, etc.
A Person holding an academic employment appointment focused on research rather than teaching; temporary (or for some defined term)
definition modified from: source (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seating_capacity).
The digital file (or physical equivalent), if available after the conference, vs. the act of attending/presenting: use ConferencePresentation for information about date/time/location/name of the event where the poster was presented
An organized series of workshop events, whether repetitions of the same workshop or multiple different workshops.
Only use if no specific subclasses of event:Event are appropriate.
This class will also display instances of subclasses under Event, e.g. Philosophy Department Discussion Club; 2009 Racker Lecture; screening of a documentary. In addition to a location in space and time, an event may have any or all the following qualities: actively participating agents, passive factors, work products. Also, it may be in a virtual space or part of a series such as a lecture series. The previous short definition was: "An arbitrary classification of a space/time region, by a cognitive agent."
Something that happens at a given place and time.
Afghanistan hasMaxLongitude 74.88. Source: http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles/geopol_v10/dataproperties/geopolitical-hasMaxLongitude.html.
A visual representation such as a photograph or graph
A document that presents visual or diagrammatic information.
Draft legislation presented for discussion to a legal body
Role of co-principal investigator of a grant, who devotes a specified percentage of time and is considered key personnel.
Professor, associate professor and assistant professor are common positions for academic faculty.
Professor; Associate Professor; Assistant Professor
Academic position in a university or institution
Global Trade Item Number 14
The dual relationship of a professor advising a student and the student being advised by a professor, typically including start and end dates
As of 26May2010, this doesn't look like it's being used anywhere. It has no domain or range, and the "show classes with restriction on this property" doesn't show any restrictions.
Used to relate an event such as a conference to the geographical place where it happens, for example Paris.
As of 26 May 2010, this looks like it's not being used. It has no domain or range, and the search for restriction on a class found nothing.
Used to link big events with smaller events such as workshops that happen in the context of a conference.
An explicit individual academic term, quarter, or semester rather than the generic fall, spring, or summer semester
Term has the same meaning of quarter and semester. And all of them are used to describe academic time unit. When the superclass core:TimeInterval is removed, make this a subclass of core:DateTimeInterval.
A form of qualitative descriptive research that is used to study individuals, a small group of participants, or a group as a whole. Medical usage (from MeSH): clinical presentations that may be followed by evaluative studies that eventually lead to a diagnosis.
A qualitative descriptive research study of individuals or a group
Di Rado, Alicia. 1995. Trekking through college: Classes explore modern society using the world of Star trek. Los Angeles Times, March 15, sec. A, p. 3.
An section number
Used to relate a reference citation to a bibliographic resource.
This term is intended to be used with non-literal values as defined in the DCMI Abstract Model (http://dublincore.org/documents/abstract-model/). As of December 2007, the DCMI Usage Board is seeking a way to express this intention with a formal range declaration.
An agent that interview another agent.
source: http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles/geopol_v10/dataproperties/geopolitical-codeUNDP.html.
Afghanistan hasMaxLatitude 38.48 source: http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles/geopol_v10/dataproperties/geopolitical-hasMaxLatitude.html.
This is planned for use in release 1.2 At that time, when core:TimeInterval is removed from the ontology, the AcademicTerm and AcademicYear classes should be made subclasses of this class. And also, it needs "start" and "end" object properties that have a range of core:DateTimeValue.
A document describing the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years
Written script for a film production, including dialogue and descriptions of gestures, actions, shooting directions
The value of the datatype property *validSince* associated to a particular area (territory or group) indicates the area's first year of validity. The geopolitical ontology traces back historic changes only until 1985, therefore, if an area has a validSince = 1985, this indicates that the area is/was valid since 1985 or before.
An article of opinion, typically published in a newspaper. For academics, most commonly Op Ed pieces
We can't yet assume that we will only have a single ORCID id for a person. source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORCID .
Used to link a bibliographic item to its publisher.
Public definition source: http://dublincore.org/2008/01/14/dcterms.rdf# . Examples of a Publisher include a person, an organization, or a service. Typically, the name of a Publisher should be used to indicate the entity.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
academic disciplines or more detailed research area
a subject, an academic field, a research area, or a discipline. SC.
A presentation of a series of slides, usually presented in front of an audience with written text and images
Global Administrative Unit Layers http://www.fao.org/geonetwork/srv/en/metadata.show?id=12691
Global Administrative Unit Layers http://www.fao.org/geonetwork/srv/en/metadata.show?id=12691 Source: http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles/geopol_v10/dataproperties/geopolitical-codeGAUL.html.
The prefix of a name
This class is here so it can be equivalent to vitro:DependentResource. Deletion in the VIVO system behaves differently when deleting members of this class: related individuals may need to be deleted as well.
A distinct, usually specialized educational group of a large educational organization.
Endodontics (department within a College of Dentistry); English (department within a College of Liberal Arts)
RearcherID is a Thomson Reuters project where researchers have a place to manage and share their professional information. It will allow them to solve author identity issues while simultaneously adding dynamic citation metrics and collaboration networks to your personal profile. Definition source: http://isiwebofknowledge.com/researcherid/
A person not considered a faculty member but holding an academic appointment.
A passage selected from a larger work.
The public description source is: http://bibotools.googlecode.com/svn/bibo-ontology/trunk/doc/index.html.
Critical or explanatory note for a Document.
Financial assistance mechanism providing money, property, or both to an eligible entity to carry out an approved project or activity
Short definition is from the Glossary of NIH Terms.
An intramural or extramural award to support scholarly work, such as UF09179 (VIVO)
Written musical composition for voice or instruments or both
The first sentence of the public description was taken from here: http://bibotools.googlecode.com/svn/bibo-ontology/trunk/doc/index.html
A legal decision that reverses a ruling.
Information Science; Computer Science; Anthropology
This namespace - http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/ - does not appear to have this element.
Universal Product Code
source for public description: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Product_Code.
A person with at least one academic appointment to a specific faculty of a university or institution of higher learning.
Definition from here: http://research.carleton.ca/htr/defs.php.
An occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants.
Not the same as an award or distinction.
A proposal for a research grant that has been submitted but not approved; does not represent an existing activity
A Film director.
Definition take from this site: http://bibotools.googlecode.com/svn/bibo-ontology/trunk/doc/index.html .
An academic course, normally but not always for credit
Abstracts and bibliographies are usually not included in magazines.
A periodical of magazine Articles. A magazine is a publication that is issued periodically, usually bound in a paper cover, and typically contains essays, stories, poems, etc., by many writers, and often photographs and drawings, frequently specializing in a particular subject or area, as hobbies, news, or sports.
Contains articles of current events or general interest, geared to the reading public as being informative or recreational
Address has properties for department name, street, city, state or province, postal code, and country. For US specific address, classify using core:US Postal Code. core:Address will display all addresses.
University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
A code and abstract concept expressing a location on the Earth's surface. To classify US specific addresses, use core:US Postal Code.
Librarian; Library Systems Analyst; Music Bibliographer
A position held by library and information science professionals, or academic or technical experts, in support of providing information services or materials
Library of Congress Control Number
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress_Control_Number.
Used to link an agent with an image that depict it.
Definition comes from the foaf page located here: http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/#term_depiction .
A chapter of a book.
Curriculum Steering Committee; PhD Advisory Committee
A group of people organized for a specific purpose (e.g., a reporting or advisory role), often with a charge and for a specific duration.
There could be many subclasses such as thesis committee or tenure committee, but these may typically be differentiated via the moniker unless distinct properties become important.
A specification giving a precise statement of a process or a service requirement, often sanctioned by a nation or industry
A document describing a standard
A legal document; for example, a court decision, a brief, and so forth.
a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right
A lab providing services such as training, protocols, or access to instruments or software
Used to describe rights related to a bibliographic resource.
1320 East 10th Street, Wells Library 021 Bloomington, IN 47405
Formal address in US postal address system.
US postal address follow the format street, apt or office number (optional), city, state, and zipcode.
Section A; Section III, ENGL 4940 - Honors Essay Tutorial II; BIOAP 4250 - Gamete Physiology and Fertilization
A section of a course taught by one or more people, in a semester, at a time, in a place.
Use for research involvement in a grant as a named investigator or key personnel.
One section of a website that appears at a unique address within the parent site's address or URL on the World Wide Web
A web page is an online document available (at least initially) on the world wide web. A web page is written first and foremost to appear on the web, as distinct from other online resources such as books, manuscripts or audio documents which use the web primarily as a distribution mechanism alongside other more traditional methods such as print.
A section of a book.
A court associated with a legal document; for example, that which issues a decision.
Public description take from: http://bibotools.googlecode.com/svn/bibo-ontology/trunk/doc/index.html. Bibo considers this property "unstable".
A formalized discussion between two or more people.
A conversation between two or more people where questions are asked by the interviewer to obtain information from the interviewee.
Ued to describe a bibliographic resource.
Definition was take from here: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/museum
A building or place where works of art, scientific specimens, or other objects of permanent value are kept and displayed.
source: http://www.answers.com/topic/role.
A document accompanying a legal case.
Indiana; Florida; Minnesota; Michigan; New York; Quebec; Manitoba; Ontario
For example, National Science Foundation providesFundingThrough Graduate Research Fellowship Program; National Institutes of Health providesFundingThrough National Center for Research Resources.
A small reference book, especially one giving instructions.
A book of instructions or guide to a specific topic
Not sure how to access the "Editor's Comments". But as North America is a continent, it would be placed directly into the continent subclass and viewable through this class along with any other subclass entities.
Any region that goes beyond national boundaries and does not fit into any subclass of core:TransnationalRegion.
A short form for an longer title or name.
A person holding a position that is not considered to be an academic appointment.
Removed the word "stable" because disputed territories from geopolitical.owl are included. This could imply that the geographic coordinates could change. I've also copied this definition to core:Geographic Location. I think core:Geographic Location and core:Geographic Region are both the same and only one is needed. There is also geopolitical.owl:geographical_region which further causes confusion.
Use subclasses of core:Geographic Location subclasses instead of this class if possible.
This property is deprecated. A generic parent for more explicit event end properties (year, year and month, date, or datetime)
An agent that is interviewed by another agent.
Used for a single narrative summary of research, typically covering a wide range of activities and time periods; use Researcher Role for information on individual activities
equivalent to bibo:abstract; included for mapping purposes
Used to describe the abstract of a bibliographic resource.
A role involving research (funded or unfunded), sometimes linked to a grant
Examples of research can be seen at: http://www.ufl.edu/research/products/index.html. Note these may have been funded, but the research doesn't have to be funded.
Bacteria-resistant bandage; Termite prevention system; Hurricane resistant houses
Relates a document to some transcribed original.
The bibo:transcriptOf public description was found here: http://bibotools.googlecode.com/svn/bibo-ontology/trunk/doc/index.html . Bibo considers this term unstable.
An entity responsible for issuing often informally published documents such as press releases, reports, etc.
Publication Description source http://bibotools.googlecode.com/svn/bibo-ontology/trunk/doc/index.html . This term is also considered unstable.
This property is deprecated. A generic parent property for more explicit start times (e.g., year, year and month, date, or datetime)
Not meant for use in classifying areas. But can display all groups.
OCLC Identifier
The Bibliographic Ontology describe bibliographic things on the semantic Web in RDF. This ontology can be used as a citation ontology, as a document classification ontology, or simply as a way to describe any kind of document in RDF. It has been inspired by many existing document description metadata formats, and can be used as a common ground for converting other bibliographic data sources.
Least developed countries (LDC); Low income and food deficit countries (LIFDC); World
Short definition taken from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geopolitical_ontology.
It's the reference to a specific source of a vocabulary.
The concept name, URL, and source vocabulary name of a Subject Area.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isbn.
Definition take from: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/street
A bounded physical representation of a body of information designed with the capacity (and usually intent) to communicate
A document (noun) is a bounded physical representation of body of information designed with the capacity (and usually intent) to communicate. A document may manifest symbolic, diagrammatic or sensory-representational information.
A document that presents authoritative reference information, such as a dictionary or encylopedia
Definition source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Article_Numbering-Uniform_Code_Council. The Uniform Code Council (UCC) was the Numbering Organization in the USA to administer and manage the EAN.UCC System. In 2005 the UCC changed its name to GS1 US.
European Article Number/Uniform Commercier Code 13
Since we have defined geopolitical.owl.hasMember to be a subproperty of core:hasMember, we should not make changes to this property that would change the definition of geopolitical.owl.hasMember in ways that may make it inconsistent with its usage in other ontologies.
An edited book.
An edited collection of stand-alone articles published as a book
Use subclasses of core:GeopoliticalEntity subclasses instead of this class if possible.
A geographical area which is associated with some sort of political structure.
Short definition obtained here: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/geopolitical_entity.
Information (typically not physical in nature) and not used for primary display, but instead contributing to the primary display of people, events, and other top level classes and their subclasses.
Normally not used for classifying items. But, will display instances from the subclasses under core:Abstract Information
This class is normally not used for classifying items. But it will display all the items from it's subclasses, e.g. Bachelor of Arts (B.A.); 1320 East 10th Street, LI 011 Bloomington, IN 47405-3907; and Visiting Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, Aug. 1998 - July 1999.
100 Caldwell Hall; 114 Martha Van Rensselaer (Rushmore Conference Room)
Room that provides a particular service or is used for a particular activity.
For data ingest from authoritative sources to record the actual way a person was listed as author, as potentially valuable information for author disambiguation. Not intended to show up for interactive editing as a disincentive for creating an individual for each author.
Top level of the geopolitical.owl ontology.
Browsing structure for this ontology can be found here: http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles/geopol_v10/index.html.
Not meant for use in classifying areas. But can display all areas.
three letter code as code currency. ISO 4217 is the international standard describing three-letter codes known as code currency. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_code.
College of Arts & Sciences; Ivy Tech Community College
A primary academic unit within a University or a free-standing higher education organization without graduate degree programs.
World Bank, Data and Statistics, Quick reference tables http://siteresources.worldbank.org/DATASTATISTICS/Resources/GDP.pdf
GDP: The total market value of all the goods and services produced within the borders of a nation during a specified period.(Answers.com).
A collection of legal cases.
http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/#term_firstName. Note from foaf: "The lastName property is provided (alongside firstName) as a mechanism to support legacy data that cannot be easily interpreted in terms of the (otherwise preferred) familyName and givenName properties. The concepts of 'first' and 'last' names do not work well across cultural and linguistic boundaries; however they are widely used in addressbooks and databases."
UITS service is the information technology services provided by Indiana University. SC.
A regularly offered service in support of an academic, research, or administrative function (not personal or professional service by an individual)
Cornell Ithaca; Cornell Geneva; Cornell New York City; Cornell Qatar
Definition taken from dictionary.com (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/campus).
The grounds of a school, college, university, or hospital. Or, a large, usually suburban, landscaped business or industrial site.
A slide in a slideshow
This is done with a restriction on agent.
A work consisting of texts of rules and regulations related to statutes issued by executive or administrative agencies
A collection of statutes.
Used information from this definition: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/library.
A collection of any materials, for study and enjoyment, which has been systematically arranged.
Used to describe the content of a bibo:Document and othr bibliographic resouces. We suggest to use this property instead of the deprecated "bibo:content" one.
A public performance.
Something carried out, acted or rendered.
Used to describe any "agent" related to bibliographic items. Such agents can be persons, organizations or groups of any kind.
Chicago; New York; Bloomington; Gainesville
A person who has already received a bachelor's degree and is working toward a Master's or Doctoral degree.
AGROVOC http://www.fao.org/aims/
source: http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles/geopol_v10/dataproperties/geopolitical-codeAGROVOC.html.
Used to link a bibliographic item to one of its contributor: can be an author, an editor, a publisher, etc.
Any organization (likely also asserted as another class of Organization) with a primary, ongoing research function, not just through occasional roles
The result of rendering a work from one language to another
Definition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_title#Job_title.
It has subproperties: hasMaxLatitude; hasMaxLongitude; hasMinLatitude; hasMinLongitude. Source: http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles/geopol_v10/dataproperties/geopolitical-hasCoordinate.html.
Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) definition of Technical Report: Work consisting of a formal report giving details of the investigation and results of a medical or other scientific problem. When issued by a government agency or comparable official body, its contents may be classified, unclassified, or declassified with regard to security clearance. This publication type may also cover a scientific paper or article that records the current state or current position of scientific research and development. If so labeled by the editor or publisher, this publication type may be properly used for journal articles.
A document describing an account or statement describing in detail an event, situation, or the like, usually as the result of observation, inquiry, etc..
Official data reported on FAQ Questionnaires from countries.
Arab Maghreb Union (AMU); Central American Council of Agriculture (CAC); Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM)
A retired professor who retained their rank, title and privileges.
Normally not used for classifying items. But, will display instances from the subclasses.
For individual, separate conferences, use conference instead. core:ConferenceSeries and core:SeminarSeries are very similar.
An organized series of a meeting for consultation or discussion.
A person registered in an undergraduate program leading to a bachelor's degree or an undergraduate diploma or certificate.
An excerpted collection of words.
A position involving academic work but without faculty status
Researcher; Academic Extension Associate; Postdoctoral Associate
Those positions are held by people who do academic work but do not have faculty positions in universities or institutes.
The example is one outreach role required by US space agency NASA, which is related with one project in NASA. Name of the outreach role should be put here.
An outreach or community service role directed outside a person's primary profession and institution
A loose, thematic, collection of Documents, often Books.
A thematic collection of documents, usually books, issued at regular or irregular intervals
Definition take from: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/foundation.
An institution financed by a donation or legacy to aid research, education, the arts, etc.
Public description is from comments of this object property in bibo ontology located here: http://bibotools.googlecode.com/svn/bibo-ontology/trunk/doc/index.html
A legal decision on appeal that takes action on a case (affirming it, reversing it, etc.).
Used to describe the subject of a bibliographic resource.
This term is intended to be used with non-literal values as defined in the DCMI Abstract Model (http://dublincore.org/documents/abstract-model/). As of December 2007, the DCMI Usage Board is seeking a way to express this intention with a formal range declaration. In VIVO, we are using core:SubjectArea for this type of information.
CODEN became particularly common in the scientific community as a citation system for periodicals cited in technical- as well in chemistry-related publications and as a search tool in many bibliographic catalogues. Definition and description came from Wikipedia here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CODEN
An identifier of serials, still in use by libraries, but replaced by ISSN for any new work
An object or a collection of objects shown in an organized manner.
Afghanistan hasMinLatitude 29.38. source: http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles/geopol_v10/dataproperties/geopolitical-hasMinLatitude.html.
Short Definition modified from the one found here: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/county.
Alachua; Baker; Bradford; Kenora; Ottawa; Waterloo
The largest administrative division of most states or provinces.
Work phone number, with area code (and country code if outside U.S. and Canada)
Home page for Scopus: http://www.scopus.com/home.url
A bill enacted into law.
A distinct part of a larger document or collected document
A written or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers.
A laboratory that exists primarily to conduct research vs. to provide services
This property is deprecated. A generic notion of the single time of an event (a year, year and month, date or date/time)
A URLLink that is designated (by the user or anyone else) as a primary link for the person, organization, event, etc.
A formal organization of people or groups of people around a subject or practice.
Special Libraries Association; Association for Computing Machinery(ACM); American Medical Informatics Association(AMIA)
A postdoctoral training appointment (job)
source: http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles/geopol_v10/dataproperties/geopolitical-codeDBPediaID.html.
The name defining a special edition of a document. Normally its a literal value composed of a version number and words.
In version 1.2, this property will no longer be a sub-property of the deprecated core:atTime property, but rather will be a top level property used with the core:DateTimeValue class.
UN Statistics Division (M49): http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49alpha.htm
"UN Statistics Division (M49): http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49alpha.htm. Source: http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles/geopol_v10/dataproperties/geopolitical-codeUN.html.
paraphrased editorial note from the bibo ontology: We are not defining, using an enumeration, the range of the bibo:status to be a defined list of bibo:DocumentStatus. This is because we want people to be able to define new statuses if needed; and creating such an enumeration would prevent this.
A list of items in a collection; an ordered compilation of item descriptions and sufficient information to afford access to them