1.1 Status of this document

The ontology is available in form of this document and:

• in RDF/Turtle: gbvontology.ttl
• in RDF/XML gbv.owl

All forms are generated from a source file written in Pandoc Markdown syntax.¹ Sources and updates are available at http://github.com/gbv/gbvontology.

This is version rev3, last modified at 2014-06-30 with revision 4605b9b.

Feedback is welcome!

Revision history

• 2014-06-30 15:16:56 +0200: missing namespaces
• 2014-06-30 15:12:45 +0200: moved to makespec

1.2 Namespaces and ontology

The URI namespace of this ontology is http://purl.org/ontology/gbv#. The namespace prefix gbv is recommended. The URI of this ontology as a whole is http://purl.org/ontology/gbv.

@prefix gbv: <http://purl.org/ontology/gbv#> .
@base        <http://purl.org/ontology/gbv> .

The following namespace prefixes are used to refer to [related ontologies]:

@prefix cc:   <http://creativecommons.org/ns#> .
@prefix daia: <http://purl.org/ontology/daia/> .
@prefix dct:  <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> .
@prefix dct:  <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> .
@prefix vann: <http://purl.org/vocab/vann/> .
@prefix voaf: <http://purl.org/vocommons/voaf#> .
@prefix void: <http://rdfs.org/ns/void#> .
@prefix vs:   <http://www.w3.org/2003/06/sw-vocab-status/ns#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

The GBV Ontology is defined in RDF/Turtle as following:

<> a owl:Ontology, voaf:Vocabulary ;
    dct:title "GBV Ontology" ;
    rdfs:label "GBV" ;
    vann:preferredNamespacePrefix "gbv" ;
    vann:preferredNamespaceUri "http://purl.org/ontology/gbv#" ;
    dct:description "Ontology of common concepts and relationships used in the GBV library network" ;
    dct:modified "2014-06-30"^^xsd:date ;
    owl:versionInfo "rev3" ;
    cc:license <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/> ;
    dct:creator "Jakob Voß" .

2.1 Datatype properties

gbv:gvkppn a owl:DatatypeProperty ;
    rdfs:label "gvkppn"@en ;
    rdfs:subPropertyOf dct:identifier ;
    rdfs:comment "PPN identifier within the GBV union catalog (GVK)"@en ;
    skos:scopeNote "a PPN in general identifies a record in any PICA database. This property must only be used to identity records in GVK."@en ;
    rdfs:isDefinedBy gbv: .

gbv:iln a owl:DatatypeProperty ;
  rdfs:label "iln"@en ;
  rdfs:subPropertyOf dct:identifier ;
  rdfs:comment "internal library number (ILN) as library identifier within the GBV"@en ;
  rdfs:isDefinedBy gbv: .

gbv:eln a owl:DatatypeProperty ;
  rdfs:label "eln"@en ;
  rdfs:comment "external library number (ELN) as library identifier within the GBV"@en ;
  rdfs:subPropertyOf dct:identifier ;
  rdfs:isDefinedBy gbv: .

gbv:dbkey a owl:DatatypeProperty ;
  rdfs:label "dbkey"@en ;
  rdfs:comment "database key, used as prefix in unAPI and at other APIs within the GBV"@en ;
  skos:scopeNote "must comply to the regular expression ^[a-z][a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9]$"@en ;
  rdfs:subPropertyOf dct:identifier ;
  rdfs:isDefinedBy gbv: .

2.2 Object properties

gbv:opac a owl:ObjectProperty ;
   rdfs:label "opac"@en ;
   rdfs:range void:Dataset ;
   rdfs:comment "main catalog of an institution"@en ;
   skos:scopeNote "the main catalog of a library usually contains records about its holdings, but the main catalog could also contain records that are not held by the institution."@en;
   rdfs:domain daia:Institution ;
   rdfs:seeAlso <http://purl.org/cld/terms/catalogueOrIndex> ;
   rdfs:seeAlso <http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/own> ;
   rdfs:isDefinedBy gbv: .

gbv:srubase a owl:ObjectProperty ;
   rdfs:label "srubase"@en ;
   rdfs:domain void:Dataset ;
   rdfs:comment "SRU interface of a database"@en ;
   rdfs:isDefinedBy gbv: .

gbv:picabase a owl:ObjectProperty ;
   rdfs:label "picabase"@en ;
   rdfs:domain void:Dataset ;
   rdfs:comment "PICA base URL of a database"@en ;
   rdfs:isDefinedBy gbv: .

gbv:solrbase a owl:ObjectProperty ;
   rdfs:label "solrbase"@en ;
   rdfs:domain void:Dataset ;
   rdfs:comment "Solr base URL of a database"@en ;
   rdfs:isDefinedBy gbv: .

gbv:oaibase a owl:ObjectProperty ;
   rdfs:label "oaibase"@en ;
   rdfs:domain void:Dataset ;
   rdfs:comment "OAI-PMH base URL of a database"@en ;
   rdfs:isDefinedBy gbv: .

2.3 Datatypes

2.4 ppn

gbv:ppn a rdfs:Datatype ;
   rdfs:label "PPN identifier"@en ;
   rdfs:comment "A PPN in general identifies a record in a PICA database, but it does not indicate which database it comes from."@en ;
   rdfs:isDefinedBy gbv: .