Description may include but is not limited to: an abstract, a table of contents, a graphical representation, or a free-text account of the resource.
This term is intended to be used with non-literal values as defined in the DCMI Abstract Model (http://dublincore.org/documents/abstract-model/). As of December 2007, the DCMI Usage Board is seeking a way to express this intention with a formal range declaration.
Examples of Agent include person, organization, and software agent.
The described resource may be derived from the related resource in whole or in part. Recommended best practice is to identify the related resource by means of a string conforming to a formal identification system.
Recommended best practice is to identify the related resource by means of a string conforming to a formal identification system.
Examples of Agent Class include groups seen as classes, such as students, women, charities, lecturers.
RFC 5646 obsoletes RFC 4646.
Spatial topic and spatial applicability may be a named place or a location specified by its geographic coordinates. Temporal topic may be a named period, date, or date range. A jurisdiction may be a named administrative entity or a geographic place to which the resource applies. Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary such as the Thesaurus of Geographic Names [TGN]. Where appropriate, named places or time periods can be used in preference to numeric identifiers such as sets of coordinates or date ranges.
Examples of a Creator include a person, an organization, or a service.
The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource.
Examples include written, spoken, sign, and computer languages.
SIOC (Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities) is an ontology for describing the information in online communities. This information can be used to export information from online communities and to link them together. The scope of the application areas that SIOC can be used for includes (and is not limited to) weblogs, message boards, mailing lists and chat channels.
SIOC Core Ontology Namespace
Examples include the formats defined by the list of Internet Media Types.
RFC 4646 obsoletes RFC 3066.
Recommended practice is to include sufficient bibliographic detail to identify the resource as unambiguously as possible.
DCMI Metadata Terms - other
RFC 3066 has been obsoleted by RFC 4646.
Date may be used to express temporal information at any level of granularity. Recommended best practice is to use an encoding scheme, such as the W3CDTF profile of ISO 8601 [W3CDTF].
Examples include paper, canvas, or DVD.
Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies.
The Friend of a Friend (FOAF) RDF vocabulary, described using W3C RDF Schema and the Web Ontology Language.
Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary such as RFC 4646 [RFC4646].
Changes in version imply substantive changes in content rather than differences in format.
The distinction between titles and alternative titles is application-specific.
Recommended best practice is to identify the resource by means of a string conforming to a formal identification system.
Instructional Method will typically include ways of presenting instructional materials or conducting instructional activities, patterns of learner-to-learner and learner-to-instructor interactions, and mechanisms by which group and individual levels of learning are measured. Instructional methods include all aspects of the instruction and learning processes from planning and implementation through evaluation and feedback.
Examples of resources to which a Date Submitted may be relevant are a thesis (submitted to a university department) or an article (submitted to a journal).
In an educational context, a mediator might be a parent, teacher, teaching assistant, or care-giver.
Examples include a number of pages, a specification of length, width, and breadth, or a period in hours, minutes, and seconds.
Typically, rights information includes a statement about various property rights associated with the resource, including intellectual property rights.
Typically, the subject will be represented using keywords, key phrases, or classification codes. Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary.
Examples of a Publisher include a person, an organization, or a service.
Examples of dimensions include size and duration. Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary such as the list of Internet Media Types [MIME].
Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary such as the DCMI Type Vocabulary [DCMITYPE]. To describe the file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource, use the Format element.
Examples of a Contributor include a person, an organization, or a service.
Examples of resources to which a Date Accepted may be relevant are a thesis (accepted by a university department) or an article (accepted by a journal).
Date of creation of the resource.
Date Created
The method by which items are added to a collection.
Accrual Method
verblijfplaats
居住地
miejsce zamieszkania
residence
κατοικία
Residenz
Place of residence of a person.
has function
A Role that this UserAccount has.
email sha1
An electronic mail address of the UserAccount, encoded using SHA1.
A book, article, or other documentary resource.
Bibliographic Resource
The frequency with which items are added to a collection.
Accrual Periodicity
A legal document giving official permission to do something with a Resource.
License Document
An account of the resource.
Description
has administrator
A UserAccount that is an administrator of this Site.
The set of conceptual resources specified by the Universal Decimal Classification.
UDC
Is Replaced By
A related resource that supplants, displaces, or supersedes the described resource.
A page about a topic of interest to this person.
A work info homepage of some person; a page about their work for some organization.
topic
A topic of interest, linking to the appropriate URI, e.g. in the Open Directory Project or of a SKOS category.
A related resource that is included either physically or logically in the described resource.
Has Part
Indicates a homepage of the service provide for this online account.
An organization funding a project or person.
A resource that acts or has the power to act.
Agent
Forum
A discussion area on which Posts or entries are made.
Site
A Site can be the location of an online community or set of communities, with UserAccounts and Usergroups creating Items in a set of Containers. It can be thought of as a web-accessible data Space.
A personal mailbox, ie. an Internet mailbox associated with exactly one owner, the first owner of this mailbox. This is a 'static inverse functional property', in that there is (across time and change) at most one individual that ever has any particular value for foaf:mbox.
has modifier
A UserAccount that modified this Item.
A related resource from which the described resource is derived.
Source
account of
Refers to the foaf:Agent or foaf:Person who owns this sioc:UserAccount.
A material thing.
Physical Resource
A related resource.
Relation
Work
a potentially copyrightable work
previous by date
Previous Item or Post in a given Container sorted by date.
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Requirement
an action that may or may not be requested of you
A weblog of some thing (whether person, group, company etc.).
A file format or physical medium.
Media Type
note
A note associated with this resource, for example, if it has been edited by a UserAccount.
reference
Links either created explicitly or extracted implicitly on the HTML level from the Post.
A group of agents.
Agent Class
A list of subunits of the resource.
Table Of Contents
member of
A Usergroup that this UserAccount is a member of.
The set of tags constructed according to RFC 5646 for the identification of languages.
RFC 5646
Date Copyrighted
Date of copyright.
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant.
Coverage
The set of conceptual resources specified by the National Library of Medicine Classification.
NLM
The policy governing the addition of items to a collection.
Accrual Policy
link
A URI of a document which contains this SIOC object.
Attribution
credit be given to copyright holder and/or author
A checksum for the DNA of some thing. Joke.
Post
An article or message that can be posted to a Forum.
Indicates the class of individuals that are a member of a Group
Community
Community is a high-level concept that defines an online community and what it consists of.
A person known by this person (indicating some level of reciprocated interaction between the parties).
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource.
Creator
jurisdiction
A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation.
Provenance
Aplan comment, in the tradition of finger and '.plan' files.
function of
A UserAccount that has this Role.
created at
When this was created, in ISO 8601 format.
This property is deprecated. Use dcterms:created from the Dublin Core ontology instead.
The set of conceptual resources specified by the Library of Congress Classification.
LCC
has creator
This is the UserAccount that made this resource.
Usergroup
A set of UserAccounts whose owners have a common purpose or interest. Can be used for access control purposes.
container of
An Item that this Container contains.
A name given to the resource.
Title
The set of media types specified by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority.
IMT
Prohibition
something you may be asked not to do
A location, period of time, or jurisdiction.
Location, Period, or Jurisdiction
The material or physical carrier of the resource.
Medium
Derivative Works
distribution of derivative works
follows
Indicates that one UserAccount follows another UserAccount (e.g. for microblog posts or other content item updates).
Date (often a range) that the resource became or will become available.
Date Available
Indicates an account held by this agent.
High Income Nation Use
use in a non-developing country
A related resource that is substantially the same as the pre-existing described resource, but in another format.
Has Format
A foaf:LabelProperty is any RDF property with texual values that serve as labels.
A system of signs, symbols, sounds, gestures, or rules used in communication.
Linguistic System
has subscriber
A UserAccount that is subscribed to this Container.
The set of conceptual resources specified by the Dewey Decimal Classification.
DDC
Lesser Copyleft
derivative works must be licensed under specified terms, with at least the same conditions as the original work; combinations with the work may be licensed under different terms
has member
A UserAccount that is a member of this Usergroup.
Container
An area in which content Items are contained.
Source Code
source code (the preferred form for making modifications) must be provided when exercising some rights granted by the license.
scope of
A Role that has a scope of this resource.
permits
A digital resource format.
File Format
modified at
When this was modified, in ISO 8601 format.
This property is deprecated. Use dcterms:modified from the Dublin Core ontology instead.
The set of tags constructed according to RFC 4646 for the identification of languages.
RFC 4646
A rate at which something recurs.
Frequency
next by date
Next Item or Post in a given Container sorted by date.
A bibliographic reference for the resource.
Bibliographic Citation
A related resource that is supplanted, displaced, or superseded by the described resource.
Replaces
has license
The set of regions in space defined by their geographic coordinates according to the DCMI Box Encoding Scheme.
DCMI Box
administrator of
A Site that the UserAccount is an administrator of.
num threads
The number of Threads (AKA discussion topics) in a Forum.
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
Temporal Coverage
The three-letter alphabetic codes listed in ISO639-2 for the representation of names of languages.
ISO 639-2
Notice
copyright and license notices be kept intact
Date (often a range) of validity of a resource.
Date Valid
space of
A resource which belongs to this data Space.
The set of tags constructed according to RFC 3066 for the identification of languages.
RFC 3066
The birthday of this Agent, represented in mm-dd string form, eg. '12-31'.
related to
Related Posts for this Post, perhaps determined implicitly from topics or references.
num items
The number of Posts (or Items) in a Forum (or a Container).
last reply date
The date and time of the last reply Post or Comment, which could be associated with a starter Item or Post or with a Thread, and expressed in ISO 8601 format.
Commercial Use
exercising rights for commercial purposes
Role
A Role is a function of a UserAccount within a scope of a particular Forum, Site, etc.
The size or duration of the resource.
Extent
has owner
A UserAccount that this resource is owned by.
Links to a previous (older) revision of this Item or Post.
earlier version
A media type or extent.
Media Type or Extent
moderator of
A Forum that a UserAccount is a moderator of.
The set of identifiers constructed according to the generic syntax for Uniform Resource Identifiers as specified by the Internet Engineering Task Force.
URI
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource.
Date
name
The name of a SIOC concept instance, e.g. a username for a UserAccount, group name for a Usergroup, etc.
A physical material or carrier.
Physical Medium
deprecated on
The set of dates and times constructed according to the W3C Date and Time Formats Specification.
W3C-DTF
owner of
A resource owned by a particular UserAccount, for example, a weblog or image gallery.
Access Rights
Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status.
creator of
A resource that the UserAccount is a creator of.
feed
A feed (e.g. RSS, Atom, etc.) pertaining to this resource (e.g. for a Forum, Site, UserAccount, etc.).
has space
A data Space which this resource is a part of.
embeds knowledge
This links Items to embedded statements, facts and structured content.
A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of a resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation.
Provenance Statement
The set of places specified by the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names.
TGN
The extent or range of judicial, law enforcement, or other authority.
Jurisdiction
content encoded
The encoded content of the Post, contained in CDATA areas.
This property is deprecated. Use content:encoded from the RSS 1.0 content module instead.
subscriber of
A Container that a UserAccount is subscribed to.
The set of classes specified by the DCMI Type Vocabulary, used to categorize the nature or genre of the resource.
DCMI Type Vocabulary
A workplace homepage of some person; the homepage of an organization they work for.
Language
A language of the resource.
has scope
A resource that this Role applies to.
Links to a later (newer) revision of this Item or Post.
later version
A user account in an online community site.
User Account
Thread
A container for a series of threaded discussion Posts or Items.
A phone, specified using fully qualified tel: URI scheme (refs: http://www.w3.org/Addressing/schemes.html#tel).
Distribution
distribution, public display, and publicly performance
A related resource that requires the described resource to support its function, delivery, or coherence.
Is Required By
A thing depicted in this representation.
The set of three-letter codes listed in ISO 639-3 for the representation of names of languages.
ISO 639-3
sibling
An Item may have a sibling or a twin that exists in a different Container, but the siblings may differ in some small way (for example, language, category, etc.). The sibling of this Item should be self-describing (that is, it should contain all available information).
part of
A resource that the subject is a part of.
This property is deprecated. Use dcterms:isPartOf from the Dublin Core ontology instead.
description
The content of the Post.
This property is deprecated. Use sioc:content or other methods (AtomOwl, content:encoded from RSS 1.0, etc.) instead.
The discussion that is related to this Item.
has discussion
prohibits
A short informal nickname characterising an agent (includes login identifiers, IRC and other chat nicknames).
Is Version Of
A related resource of which the described resource is a version, edition, or adaptation.
Sharing
permits commercial derivatives, but only non-commercial distribution
An established standard to which the described resource conforms.
Conforms To
attachment
The URI of a file attached to an Item.
Date Issued
Date of formal issuance (e.g., publication) of the resource.
A summary of the resource.
Abstract
A method by which resources are added to a collection.
Method of Accrual
An identifier of a SIOC concept instance. For example, a user ID. Must be unique for instances of each type of SIOC concept within the same site.
A class of entity for whom the resource is intended or useful.
Audience
References
A related resource that is referenced, cited, or otherwise pointed to by the described resource.
has container
The Container to which this Item belongs.
Alternative Title
An alternative name for the resource.
Reproduction
making multiple copies
parent of
A child Container or Forum that this Container or Forum is a parent of.
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context.
A process, used to engender knowledge, attitudes and skills, that the described resource is designed to support.
Instructional Method
A homepage of a school attended by the person.
A textual geekcode for this person, see http://www.geekcode.com/geek.html
Date Submitted
Date of submission of the resource.
Is Format Of
A related resource that is substantially the same as the described resource, but in another format.
Mediator
An entity that mediates access to the resource and for whom the resource is intended or useful.
A plan or course of action by an authority, intended to influence and determine decisions, actions, and other matters.
Policy
A process that is used to engender knowledge, attitudes, and skills.
Method of Instruction
content
The content of the Item in plain text format.
The underlying or 'focal' entity associated with some SKOS-described concept.
has part
An resource that is a part of this subject.
This property is deprecated. Use dcterms:hasPart from the Dublin Core ontology instead.
Item
An Item is something which can be in a Container.
modifier of
An Item that this UserAccount has modified.
Copyleft
derivative and combined works must be licensed under specified terms, similar to those on the original work
A dimension or extent, or a time taken to play or execute.
Size or Duration
A project this person has previously worked on.
last activity date
The date and time of the last activity associated with a SIOC concept instance, and expressed in ISO 8601 format. This could be due to a reply Post or Comment, a modification to an Item, etc.
A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource.
Is Referenced By
The set of tags, constructed according to RFC 1766, for the identification of languages.
RFC 1766
group of
This property has been renamed. Use sioc:usergroup_of instead.
The set of points in space defined by their geographic coordinates according to the DCMI Point Encoding Scheme.
DCMI Point
Permission
an action that may or may not be allowed or desired
A related resource that is required by the described resource to support its function, delivery, or coherence.
Requires
A location that something is based near, for some broadly human notion of near.
The primary topic of some page or document.
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource.
The topic of the resource.
Subject
An interval of time that is named or defined by its start and end dates.
Period of Time
the legal jurisdiction of a license
usergroup of
A Space that the Usergroup has access to.
The sha1sum of the URI of an Internet mailbox associated with exactly one owner, the first owner of the mailbox.
A document that this thing is the primary topic of.
ip address
The IP address used when creating this Item. This can be associated with a creator. Some wiki articles list the IP addresses for the creator or modifiers when the usernames are absent.
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
Spatial Coverage
A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource.
Rights Holder
requires
An entity responsible for making the resource available.
Publisher
A statement about the intellectual property rights (IPR) held in or over a Resource, a legal document giving official permission to do something with a resource, or a statement about access rights.
Rights Statement
has group
This property has been renamed. Use sioc:has_usergroup instead.
title
This is the title (subject line) of the Post. Note that for a Post within a threaded discussion that has no parents, it would detail the topic thread.
This property is deprecated. Use dcterms:title from the Dublin Core ontology instead.
reply of
Links to an Item or Post which this Item or Post is a reply to.
first name
First (real) name of this User. Synonyms include given name or christian name.
This property is deprecated. Use foaf:name or foaf:firstName from the FOAF vocabulary instead.
The set of labeled concepts specified by the Medical Subject Headings.
MeSH
An image that can be used to represent some thing (ie. those depictions which are particularly representative of something, eg. one's photo on a homepage).
A project (a collective endeavour of some kind).
next version
Links to the next revision of this Item or Post.
Indicates the name (identifier) associated with this online account.
A spatial region or named place.
Location
has reply
Points to an Item or Post that is a reply or response to this Item or Post.
email
An electronic mail address of the UserAccount.
has usergroup
Points to a Usergroup that has certain access to this Space.
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource.
Format
The set of labeled concepts specified by the Library of Congress Subject Headings.
LCSH
previous version
Links to the previous revision of this Item or Post.
Space
A Space is a place where data resides, e.g. on a website, desktop, fileshare, etc.
avatar
An image or depiction used to represent this UserAccount.
A tipjar document for this agent, describing means for payment and reward.
num authors
The number of unique authors (UserAccounts and unregistered posters) who have contributed to this Item, Thread, Post, etc.
host of
A Forum that is hosted on this Site.
A link to the publications of this person.
last item date
The date and time of the last Post (or Item) in a Forum (or a Container), in ISO 8601 format.
Share Alike
derivative works be licensed under the same terms or compatible terms as the original work
links to
Links extracted from hyperlinks within a SIOC concept, e.g. Post or Site.
addressed to
Refers to who (e.g. a UserAccount, e-mail address, etc.) a particular Item is addressed to.
about
Specifies that this Item is about a particular resource, e.g. a Post describing a book, hotel, etc.
User
This class is deprecated. Use sioc:UserAccount from the SIOC ontology instead.
UserAccount is now preferred. This is a deprecated class for a User in an online community site.
License
a set of requests/permissions to users of a Work, e.g. a copyright license, the public domain, information for distributors
Type
The nature or genre of the resource.
A legal document giving official permission to do something with the resource.
has host
The Site that hosts this Forum.
has moderator
A UserAccount that is a moderator of this Forum.
The set of codes listed in ISO 3166-1 for the representation of names of countries.
ISO 3166
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource.
Contributor
A string expressing what the user is happy for the general public (normally) to know about their current activity.
An agent (eg. person, group, software or physical artifact).
The gender of this Agent (typically but not necessarily 'male' or 'female').
A basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated.
Standard
num views
The number of times this Item, Thread, UserAccount profile, etc. has been viewed.
has parent
A Container or Forum that this Container or Forum is a child of.
A Myers Briggs (MBTI) personality classification.
The set of time intervals defined by their limits according to the DCMI Period Encoding Scheme.
DCMI Period
Date Modified
Date on which the resource was changed.
Date of acceptance of the resource.
Date Accepted
A class of entity, defined in terms of progression through an educational or training context, for which the described resource is intended.
Audience Education Level
subject
Keyword(s) describing subject of the Post.
This property is deprecated. Use dcterms:subject from the Dublin Core ontology for text keywords and sioc:topic if the subject can be represented by a URI instead.
num replies
The number of replies that this Item, Thread, Post, etc. has. Useful for when the reply structure is absent.
Links to the latest revision of this Item or Post.
latest version
Has Version
A related resource that is a version, edition, or adaptation of the described resource.
last name
Last (real) name of this user. Synonyms include surname or family name.
This property is deprecated. Use foaf:name or foaf:surname from the FOAF vocabulary instead.