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Formalizing Enrichment Mechanisms for Bibliographic Ontologies in the Semantic Web

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Abstract

This paper presents an analysis of current limitations to the reuse of bibliographic data in the Semantic Web and a research proposal towards solutions to overcome them. The limitations identified derive from the insufficient convergence between existing bibliographic ontologies and the principles and techniques of linked open data (LOD); lack of a common conceptual framework for a diversity of standards often used together; reduced use of links to external vocabularies and absence of Semantic Web mechanisms to formalize relationships between vocabularies, as well as limitations of Semantic Web languages for the requirements of bibliographic data interoperability. A proposal is advanced to investigate the hypothesis of creating a reference model and specifying a superontology to overcome the misalignments found, as well as the use of SHACL (Shapes Constraint Language) to solve current limitations of RDF languages.

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  1. 1.

    https://www.ifla.org/publications/functional-requirements-for-bibliographic-records.

  2. 2.

    http://iflastandards.info/ns/fr/frbr/frbrer/.

  3. 3.

    http://vocab.org/frbr/core.rdf.

  4. 4.

    https://www.ifla.org/files/assets/cataloguing/FRBRoo/frbroo_v_2.4.pdf.

  5. 5.

    https://www.w3.org/TR/owl2-primer/.

  6. 6.

    https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-schema/.

  7. 7.

    http://www.rdaregistry.info/.

  8. 8.

    http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/.

  9. 9.

    https://www.loc.gov/bibframe/.

  10. 10.

    BIBO – The Bibliographic Ontology - http://bibliontology.com.

  11. 11.

    VIVO Ontology for Researcher Discovery - http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/VIVO.

  12. 12.

    CERIF - The Common European Research Information Format - https://www.eurocris.org/cerif/main-features-cerif.

  13. 13.

    https://www.w3.org/TR/shacl/.

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This project was partially funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (ISTAR UID/Multi/4466/2016).

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    Helena Simões Patrício & Maria Inês Cordeiro

  2. Information Sciences, Technologies and Architecture Research Center (ISTAR-IUL), Lisbon, Portugal

    Helena Simões Patrício & Pedro Nogueira Ramos

  3. University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL), Lisbon, Portugal

    Pedro Nogueira Ramos

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Patrício, H.S., Cordeiro, M.I., Ramos, P.N. (2019). Formalizing Enrichment Mechanisms for Bibliographic Ontologies in the Semantic Web. In: Garoufallou, E., Sartori, F., Siatri, R., Zervas, M. (eds) Metadata and Semantic Research. MTSR 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 846. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14401-2_14

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