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BiRO, the Bibliographic Reference Ontology is an ontology for describing bibliographic records and references, and their compilation into bibliographic collections and reference lists. It forms part of SPAR, a suite of Semantic Publishing and Referencing Ontologies. Other SPAR ontologies are described at http://purl.org/spar/.
This ontology is available at http://purl.org/spar/biro, and uses the namespace prefix biro.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):
• 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;
• to collections of bibliographic records such as library catatlogues; and
• to bibliographic lists, such as reference lists.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/biro/BibliographicCollection
A bibliographic collection is composed only of items containing bibliographic records. Moreover, it cannot be part of other bibliographic collections, and it is realized only by bibliographic lists.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/biro/BibliographicList
An ordered list of bibliographic items, each of which contains a bibliographic reference.
A bibliographic list is composed only of items containing bibliographic references. Moreover, it is always a realization of a bibliographic collection.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/biro/BibliographicRecord
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.
A bibliographic record is realized only through bibliographic references.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/biro/BibliographicReference
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.
A bibliographic reference is a realization of a bibliographic record. Moreover, it can contain only items referring to elements contained by the bibliographic record it realizes.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/biro/LibraryCatalogue
A catalogue of the bibliographic holdings of a library.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/biro/isElementOf
The link between an entity and the collection containing it.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/biro/isReferencedBy
The relation between a publication and the bibliographic record or bibliographic reference describing it.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/biro/references
The relation between a bibliographic record or a bibliographic reference and the publication being referenced.
IRI: http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/description
IRI: http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#versionInfo
IRI: http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#comment
This HTML document was obtained by processing the OWL ontology source code through LODE, the Live OWL Documentation Environment developed by Silvio Peroni.
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.