BIO: A vocabulary for biographical information

Creators: Ian Davis; David Galbraith

This document describes a vocabulary for describing biographical information about people, both living and dead. It has been designed to be compatible with both RDF and non-RDF XML formats such as FOAF, RSS 1.0 and RSS 2.0. It contains terms useful for finding out more about people and their backgrounds and has some cross-over into genealogical information.

Namespace

The URI for this vocabulary is

http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/

When abbreviating terms the suggested prefix is bio

Each class or property in the vocabulary has a URI constructed by appending a term name to the vocabulary URI. For example:

http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/event

Term Summary

Term	URI
Birth	http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/Birth
Date	http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/date
Death	http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/Death
Event	http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/event
Key words	http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/keywords
Marriage	http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/Marriage
One-line bio	http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/olb
Place	http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/place

Properties and Classes

Birth

URI: http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/Birth

A birth event. Being a member of this class implies also being a member of Event.

Date

URI: http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/date

The date of an event. Having this property implies being a Event. It is a sub-property of dc:date.

Other Information

vann:usageNote	http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/date-usage-20040303.html

Death

URI: http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/Death

A death event. Being a member of this class implies also being a member of Event.

Event

URI: http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/event

An event associated with a person. Having this property implies being a foaf:Person. Every value of this property is a Event.

Key words

URI: http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/keywords

A comma delimited list of key words that describe this person. Having this property implies being a foaf:Person. Every value of this property is a rdfs:Literal. It is a sub-property of dc:subject.

Marriage

URI: http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/Marriage

A marriage event. Being a member of this class implies also being a member of Event.

One-line bio

URI: http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/olb

A one-line biography of the person. Having this property implies being a foaf:Person. Every value of this property is a rdfs:Literal.

Place

URI: http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/place

The place of an event. Having this property implies being a Event.

Examples

Title	Using With FOAF

Title	Using With RSS 1.0

Title	Using With RSS 2.0

Title	Using With HTML

Other Information

Identifier	http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/bio-vocab-20040305
Date	2009-05-19
Preferred namespace URI	http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/
Preferred namespace prefix	bio
Change log	http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/bio-changes-20040305.html