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Book Vocabulary Language Reference

Book Vocabulary Metadata (rdf:type owl:Ontology)

Latest version: http://purl.org/opdm/book#

Authors:
  Bene Rodriguez-Castro
  Laszlo Torok
  Martin Hepp
  http://opdm-project.org/
  http://www.unibw.de/ebusiness/

URI http://purl.org/opdm/book#
rdfs:label Book Vocabulary

rdfs:comment

Vocabulary for describing books.

dcterms:subject book, audio book, ebook, reading

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Table of Contents

  1. Classes
  2. Datatype Properties
  3. Object Properties
  4. Individuals
  5. Contact Information
  6. License
  7. Acknowledgments

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1. Classes

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obk:Book (rdf:type owl:Class)

URI http://purl.org/opdm/book#Book
rdfs:subClassOf http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#ProductOrService
rdfs:label Book

rdfs:comment

Super class of all books

Properties (rdfs:domain) : obk:abstract obk:author obk:format obk:genre obk:lengthOfAudio obk:narrator obk:numberOfPages obk:publishedDate obk:publishedIn obk:publisher obk:title

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obk:BookFormat (rdf:type owl:Class)

URI http://purl.org/opdm/book#BookFormat
rdfs:subClassOf http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#QualitativeValue
rdfs:label BookFormat

rdfs:comment

Format of the book

This class is a valid range (rdfs:range) for: obk:format

Subclasses

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obk:BookGenre (rdf:type owl:Class)

URI http://purl.org/opdm/book#BookGenre
rdfs:subClassOf http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#QualitativeValue
rdfs:label BookGenre

rdfs:comment

Vocabulary of literary genres preferably derived from a established literary taxonomy of genres but at the same time open-ended.

Predefined Individuals

This class is a valid range (rdfs:range) for: obk:genre

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obk:ElectronicFormat (rdf:type owl:Class)

URI http://purl.org/opdm/book#ElectronicFormat
rdfs:subClassOf obk:BookFormat
rdfs:label ElectronicFormat

rdfs:comment

Electronic (not-printed) format

Predefined Individuals

This class is a valid range (rdfs:range) for: obk:format

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obk:PaperFormat (rdf:type owl:Class)

URI http://purl.org/opdm/book#PaperFormat
rdfs:subClassOf obk:BookFormat
rdfs:label PaperFormat

rdfs:comment

Paper format

Predefined Individuals

This class is a valid range (rdfs:range) for: obk:format

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obk:Person (rdf:type owl:Class)

URI http://purl.org/opdm/book#Person
rdfs:subClassOf http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#QualitativeValue http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person
rdfs:label Person

rdfs:comment

Person associated to the book as an author, narrator (for an audio book) or any other function

This class is a valid range (rdfs:range) for: obk:author obk:narrator

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2. Datatype Properties

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obk:abstract (rdf:type owl:DatatypeProperty)

URI http://purl.org/opdm/book#abstract
rdfs:subPropertyOf http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#datatypeProductOrServiceProperty
rdfs:label Abstract

rdfs:comment

Abstract of the book

Compatible with (rdfs:domain): obk:Book
Allowed values (rdfs:range): http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string

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obk:numberOfPages (rdf:type owl:DatatypeProperty)

URI http://purl.org/opdm/book#numberOfPages
rdfs:subPropertyOf http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#datatypeProductOrServiceProperty
rdfs:label Number of pages

rdfs:comment

The number of pages of the book. It applies only to books in paper and electronic-book format

Compatible with (rdfs:domain): obk:Book
Allowed values (rdfs:range): http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#integer

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obk:publishedDate (rdf:type owl:DatatypeProperty)

URI http://purl.org/opdm/book#publishedDate
rdfs:subPropertyOf http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#datatypeProductOrServiceProperty
rdfs:label Published date

rdfs:comment

The date(s) that the book has been published

Compatible with (rdfs:domain): obk:Book
Allowed values (rdfs:range): http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date

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obk:publishedIn (rdf:type owl:DatatypeProperty)

URI http://purl.org/opdm/book#publishedIn
rdfs:subPropertyOf http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#datatypeProductOrServiceProperty
rdfs:label Published in

rdfs:comment

The language in which the book is published.

Compatible with (rdfs:domain): obk:Book
Allowed values (rdfs:range): http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#language

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obk:title (rdf:type owl:DatatypeProperty, owl:FunctionalProperty)

URI http://purl.org/opdm/book#title
rdfs:subPropertyOf http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#datatypeProductOrServiceProperty
rdfs:label Title

rdfs:comment

Title of the book

Compatible with (rdfs:domain): obk:Book
Allowed values (rdfs:range): http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string

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3. Object Properties

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obk:author (rdf:type owl:ObjectProperty)

URI http://purl.org/opdm/book#author
rdfs:subPropertyOf http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#qualitativeProductOrServiceProperty
rdfs:label Author

rdfs:comment

The author of the book

Compatible with (rdfs:domain): obk:Book
Allowed values (rdfs:range): obk:Person

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obk:format (rdf:type owl:ObjectProperty)

URI http://purl.org/opdm/book#format
rdfs:subPropertyOf http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#qualitativeProductOrServiceProperty
rdfs:label Format of the book

rdfs:comment

Book format

Compatible with (rdfs:domain): obk:Book
Allowed values (rdfs:range): obk:BookFormat obk:ElectronicFormat obk:PaperFormat

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obk:genre (rdf:type owl:ObjectProperty)

URI http://purl.org/opdm/book#genre
rdfs:subPropertyOf http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#qualitativeProductOrServiceProperty
rdfs:label Genre of the book

rdfs:comment

The genre of a book.

Compatible with (rdfs:domain): obk:Book
Allowed values (rdfs:range): obk:BookGenre

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obk:lengthOfAudio (rdf:type owl:ObjectProperty)

URI http://purl.org/opdm/book#lengthOfAudio
rdfs:subPropertyOf http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#quantitativeProductOrServiceProperty
rdfs:label Length of audiobook

rdfs:comment

The length in seconds of the audio narration of the book. It applies only to books in audio format. Note: UN/CEFACT code for second is SEC

Compatible with (rdfs:domain): obk:Book
Allowed values (rdfs:range): http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#QuantitativeValue

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obk:narrator (rdf:type owl:ObjectProperty)

URI http://purl.org/opdm/book#narrator
rdfs:subPropertyOf http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#qualitativeProductOrServiceProperty
rdfs:label Narrator of the book

rdfs:comment

The narrator of a book in audio format

Compatible with (rdfs:domain): obk:Book
Allowed values (rdfs:range): obk:Person

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obk:publisher (rdf:type owl:ObjectProperty)

URI http://purl.org/opdm/book#publisher
rdfs:subPropertyOf http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#qualitativeProductOrServiceProperty
rdfs:label Publisher of the book

rdfs:comment

The publisher of the book

Compatible with (rdfs:domain): obk:Book
Allowed values (rdfs:range): http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#BusinessEntity

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4. Individuals

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obk:Audiobook (rdf:type obk:ElectronicFormat)

URI http://purl.org/opdm/book#Audiobook
rdfs:label Audiobook

rdfs:comment

The audio format version of a book

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obk:Drama (rdf:type obk:BookGenre)

URI http://purl.org/opdm/book#Drama
rdfs:label Drama

rdfs:comment

The Drama literary genre

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obk:Ebook (rdf:type obk:ElectronicFormat)

URI http://purl.org/opdm/book#Ebook
rdfs:label Ebook

rdfs:comment

The electronic format version of a book

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obk:Epic (rdf:type obk:BookGenre)

URI http://purl.org/opdm/book#Epic
rdfs:label Epic

rdfs:comment

The Epic literary genre

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obk:Fiction (rdf:type obk:BookGenre)

URI http://purl.org/opdm/book#Fiction
rdfs:label Fiction

rdfs:comment

The Fiction literary genre

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obk:GenreN (rdf:type obk:BookGenre)

URI http://purl.org/opdm/book#GenreN
rdfs:label Genre N

rdfs:comment

Not to be used. Genre N represents the notion of the open-ended type of genres that can be defined

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obk:Hardcover (rdf:type obk:PaperFormat)

URI http://purl.org/opdm/book#Hardcover
rdfs:label Hardcover

rdfs:comment

The hardcover version of a book

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obk:Lyric (rdf:type obk:BookGenre)

URI http://purl.org/opdm/book#Lyric
rdfs:label Lyric

rdfs:comment

The Lyric literary genre

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obk:Paperback (rdf:type obk:PaperFormat)

URI http://purl.org/opdm/book#Paperback
rdfs:label Paperback

rdfs:comment

The paperback format version of a book

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5. Contact Information

Martin Hepp

E-Business and Web Science Research Group
Chair of General Management and E-Business
Universität der Bundeswehr München
Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39
D-85577 Neubiberg, Germany

Phone: +49 89 6004-4217
eMail: mhepp(at)computer.org (preferred mode of communication)
Web: http://www.heppnetz.de/
Web: http://www.unibw.de/ebusiness/

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6. License

The Book Vocabulary is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. You are free to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix/adapt the work (e.g. to import the ontology and create specializations of its elements), as long as you attribute the work and link back to http://purl.org/opdm/book#.

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7. Acknowledgements

This documentation has been generated automatically from the most recent ontology specification in OWL using a Python script written by Alex Stolz and Martin Hepp. Our script uses the RDFlib library for parsing and handling RDF and the Jinja template engine for generating the HTML document.