Transformation of bibTeX into an OWL ontology
bibtex.owl: an ontology for bibTeX entries
Possible ontology to describe bibTeX entries.
Entry
Base class for all entries
Article
An article from a journal or magazine.
Book
A book with an explicit publisher.
One thing to figure out is whether or not this tells us what we want; that is, does this imply that we must have at least one property of humanCreator, which could be either hasAuthor or hasEditor?
Booklet
A work that is printed and bound, but without a named publisher or sponsoring institution.
Conference
The same as INPROCEEDINGS, included for Scribe compatibility.
Inbook
A part of a book, which may be a chapter (or section or whatever) and/or a range of pages.
Incollection
A part of a book having its own title.
Inproceedings
An article in a conference proceedings.
Manual
Technical documentation.
Mastersthesis
A Master's thesis.
Misc
Use this type when nothing else fits.
Phdthesis
A PhD thesis.
Proceedings
The proceedings of a conference.
Techreport
A report published by a school or other institution, usually numbered within a series.
Unpublished
A document having an author and title, but not formally published.
has key
The key for a particular bibTeX entry. Note that the rdf:ID for each Entry instance could be the bibTeX key as well, possibly making this property redundant.
has address
Usually the address of the publisher or other type of institution. For major publishing houses, van Leunen recommends omitting the information entirely. For small publishers, on the other hand, you can help the reader by giving the complete address.
has annotation
An annotation. It is not used by the standard bibliography styles, but may be used by others that produce an annotated bibliography.
has author
The name(s) of the author(s), in the format described in the LaTeX book.
This is tricky due to the fact that order is not (generally) preserved in RDF documents. The problem arises when you want to have an author list where the order is _extremely_ important. How shall we do that? Perhaps we want to define "hasPrimaryAuthor", "hasSecondaryAuthor", "hasTertiaryAuthor", and "hasRemainingAuthors", or something of that sort. This will be have to given more thought.
has booktitle
Title of a book, part of which is being cited. See the LaTeX book for how to type titles. For book entries, use the title field instead.
has chapter
A chapter (or section or whatever) number.
has crossref
The database key of the entry being cross referenced.
has edition
The edition of a book--for example, "Second". This should be an ordinal, and should have the first letter capitalized, as shown here; the standard styles convert to lower case when necessary.
has editor
Name(s) of editor(s), typed as indicated in the LaTeX book. If there is also an author field, then the editor field gives the editor of the book or collection in which the reference appears.
Again, the same issues that arose with the "hasAuthor" property apply here.
how published
How something strange has been published. The first word should be capitalized.
has institution
The sponsoring institution of a technical report.
This could be an object property that refers to an external set of institution instances.
has journal
A journal name. Abbreviations are provided for many journals; see the Local Guide
This could optionally be an object property, whereby the range would refer to an external set of journal instances, thus providing standardized abbreviations for different bibliographic styles.
has month
The month in which the work was published or, for an unpublished work, in which it was written. You should use the standard three-letter abbreviation, as described in Appendix B.1.3 of the LaTeX book.
has note
Any additional information that can help the reader. The first word should be capitalized.
has number
The number of a journal, magazine, technical report, or of a work in a series. An issue of a journal or magazine is usually identified by its volume and number; the organization that issues a technical report usually gives it a number; and sometimes books are given numbers in a named series.
has organization
The organization that sponsors a conference or that publishes a manual.
has pages
One or more page numbers or range of numbers, such as 42-111 or 7,41,73-97 or 43+ (the `+' in this last example indicates pages following that don't form a simple range). To make it easier to maintain Scribe-compatible databases, the standard styles convert a single dash (as in 7-33) to the double dash used in TeX to denote number ranges (as in 7-33).
has publisher
The publisher's name.
This is a case where an ObjectProperty might be a better choice, where the range is some set of publisher names defined in another ontology. That would allow all of the metadata for the publisher to be incorporated as needed.
has school
The name of the school where a thesis was written.
As with "hasPublisher", this could be an ObjectProperty that refers to an external set of school instances.
has series
The name of a series or set of books. When citing an entire book, the the title field gives its title and an optional series field gives the name of a series or multi-volume set in which the book is published.
has title
The work's title, typed as explained in the LaTeX book.
has type
The type of a technical report--for example, "Research Note".
has volume
The volume of a journal or multivolume book.
has year
The year of publication or, for an unpublished work, the year it was written. Generally it should consist of four numerals, such as 1984, although the standard styles can handle any year whose last four nonpunctuation characters are numerals, such as '(about 1984)'.
has affiliation
The authors affiliation.
has abstract
An abstract of the work.
has contents
A Table of Contents.
has copyright
Copyright information.
has ISBN
The International Standard Book Number.
has ISSN
The International Standard Serial Number. Used to identify a journal.
has keywords
Key words used for searching or possibly for annotation.
has language
The language the document is in.
has location
A location associated with the entry, such as the city in which a conference took place.
has LCCN
The Library of Congress Call Number.
has mrnumber
The Mathematical Reviews number.
has price
The price of the document.
has size
The physical dimensions of a work.
has URL
The WWW Universal Resource Locator that points to the item being referenced. This often is used for technical reports to point to the ftp or web site where the postscript source of the report is located.
human creator
A generic human creator category, necessary in order to contain both author and editor.
page and/or chapter data
A generic property to hold page and/or chapter data.