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BiRO, the Bibliographic Reference Ontology

Authors:: David Shotton^^
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BiRO, the Bibliographic Reference Ontology, is an ontology structured according to the FRBR model to define bibliographic records (as subclasses of frbr:Work) and bibliographic references (as subclasses of frbr:Expression), and their compilations into bibliographic collections such as library catalogues, and into bibliographic lists such as reference lists in journal articles, respectively. It provides a logical system for relating an individual bibliographic reference, such as appears in the reference list of a published article (which may lack the title of the cited article, the full names of the listed authors, or indeed the full list of authors): â€¢ to the full bibliographic record for that cited article, which in addition to missing reference fields may also include the name of the publisher, and the ISSN or ISBN of the publication; â€¢ to collections of bibliographic records such as library catatlogues; and â€¢ to bibliographic lists, such as reference lists.

Summary of Terms

An alphabetical index of NAME terms, by class (concepts) and by property (relationships, attributes), are given below. All the terms are hyperlinked to their detailed description for quick reference.

Classes: BibliographicCollection, BibliographicList, BibliographicRecord, BibliographicReference, LibraryCatalogue, ReferenceList,

Properties: isElementOf, isReferencedBy, references,

Vocabulary classes and properties

Class: biro:BibliographicCollection

URI: http://purl.org/spar/biro/BibliographicCollection

bibliographic collection - A collection of bibliographic records, each of which references a publication (or a work in preparation for publication). Examples of bibliographic collections include a collection of the bibliographic records of all the publications that a single individual has authored, or a collection of those bibliographic records to be included in a research paper, where they are expressed as a reference list.

sub-class-of:: http://purl.org/vocab/frbr/core#Work; http://swan.mindinformatics.org/ontologies/1.2/collections/Set

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Class: biro:BibliographicList

URI: http://purl.org/spar/biro/BibliographicList

bibliographic list - An ordered list of bibliographic items, each of which contains a bibliographic reference.

sub-class-of:: http://purl.org/vocab/frbr/core#Expression; http://swan.mindinformatics.org/ontologies/1.2/collections/List

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Class: biro:BibliographicRecord

URI: http://purl.org/spar/biro/BibliographicRecord

bibliographic record - A record that uniquely references a particular publication (or a work in preparation for publication). Each bibliographic record is a set of entities describing aspects of the referenced work, for example authors, title, journal, publication year, DOI, ISSN, publisher and copyright information. The FRBR expression of a bibliographic record is a bibliographic reference, which usually contains only a sub-set of these entities, ordered in a particular way that corresponds to the house style of the publication in which it occurs.

sub-class-of:: http://purl.org/vocab/frbr/core#Work; http://swan.mindinformatics.org/ontologies/1.2/collections/Set
in-domain-of:: http://purl.org/spar/biro/references
in-range-of:: http://purl.org/spar/biro/isReferencedBy

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Class: biro:BibliographicReference

URI: http://purl.org/spar/biro/BibliographicReference

bibliographic reference - An expression of a bibliographic record in a specific format, that references a particular publication (or a work in preparation for publication). Each bibliographic reference is a list of items containing entities that describe aspects of the referenced work - for example authors, title, journal, publication year - selected from the bibliographic record.