Resource List Ontology

The Resource List ontology describes collections of Items grouped together in Sections and explicitly ordered. Items refer to resources, currently bibo:Documents. The ontology subclasses SIOC for Container and Item relationships as well as providing additional properties for explicit ordering and optimisations for retrieving deeply structured Lists. The Resource List ontology is intended for use describing academic reading lists, bookmarks, bibliographies and similar structured collections of references.

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Namespace

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

The term name for a class always starts with an uppercase character. Where the term name is comprised of multiple concatenated words, the leading character of each word will be an uppercase character. For example:

The term name for a property always starts with an lowercase character. Where the term name is comprised of multiple concatenated words, the leading character of the second and each subsequent word will be an uppercase character. For example:

Summary of Terms

Usage Note

Term Name	Type	Definition
AlternativeItem	class	An Alternative Item is an Item that is used specifically as an alternative to the Item it is associated with. This allows resource list creators to specify alternative resources when the core items on their list are unavailable, or simply in addition to them within a given context.
Item	class	An Item represents a resource in the context of the list in which it is contained. This differs from the resource itself in that a resource may be referenced in many lists or many times within a single list. Item provides the means to contextualize the specific reference to a resource on each list.
List	class	A Resource List represents an ordered collection of Items each which refers to a resource (currently bibo:Documents) for such purposes as managing a bibliography, circulating a reading list or similar.
Section	class	A Section denotes a grouping of resources within a Resource List that are considered related in some way.
alternative	property	The alternative property is used to relate one item to another as an alternative.
contains	property	A List may contain many Sections and Items organised in a hierarchical structure. the contains property provides a relationshiop between the parent List and all Sections and Items within it, whether they are attached directly or deeper within the structure. This allows a List and all of its parts to be retrieved with a single DESCRIBE. This is an optimisation that precludes the need for recursive querying.
created	property	This property is used to capture the date a list, item, or section was created
description	property	This property is used to provide a description of a Resource List.
list	property	Sections and Items are contained within Lists, the list property allows an easy way to get from Items and Sections that may be several levels deep to their parent List.
next	property	The Sections and Items within a List or a Section are ordered. The mechanism for that is a doubly linked list, using next and previous.
previous	property	The Sections and Items within a List or a Section are ordered. The mechanism for that is a doubly linked list, using next and previous.
resource	property	The resource property relates an Item as it occurs in a List or Section to the resource it refers to. In our current view of Resource Lists the Items refer to resources all of which can be described using Bibliontology.
usedBy	property	The usedBy property relates a List to the those rdf:resources that refer to it.
usesList	property	The usesList property is used to relate any rdf:resource to a Resource List it makes use of.

The Resource List ontology is designed to model academic reading lists, bookmarks and similarly structured collections of references. The Resource List Ontology makes use of a number of other ontologies:

We use SIOC to model the structure of a Resource List and the relationships between items and their containers. We use Bibliographic Ontology to model the various kinds of resources that can be included on a list. It is recommended that you refer to those ontologies to gain a better understanding of the classes and properties that are available.

Lifecycle Ontology

We are currently using the lifecycle ontology to model the status of a List, Section or Item, with a view to introduce the ability to model more detailed workflow type activities in the future. At the moment it is used to indicate whether a List, a Section or an Item are draft, or published. In order to do this we have defined the following Individuals as part of the Resource List Ontology

 <lifecycle:State rdf:about="http://purl.org/vocab/resourcelist/schema#status-draft">
    <rdfs:label xml:lang="en">Draft</rdfs:label>
 </lifecycle:State>

 <lifecycle:State rdf:about="http://purl.org/vocab/resourcelist/schema#status-published">
    <rdfs:label xml:lang="en">Published</rdfs:label>
 </lifecycle:State>

And specify that the <lifecycle:state> property be used when indicating the status of an item, section or a list. For example:

 <resource:List rdf:about="http://example.com/lists/test">
     <resource:created>20080520110000</resource:created>
     <sioc:has_creator rdf:resource="http://example.com/people/joe_bloggs"/>
     <lifecycle:state rdf:resource="http://purl.org/vocab/resourcelist/schema#status-draft"/>
     <sioc:name xml:lang="en">Test List</sioc:name>
     <resource:description xml:lang="en">This a test list</resource:description>
 </resource:List>

Vocabulary Classes

Vocabulary Properties

Examples

URI:	http://purl.org/vocab/resourcelist/schema#AlternativeItem
Label:	Alternative Item
Subclass of	resource:Item
Paraphrase (experimental)	A resource:AlternativeItem is something that, amongst other things, is a resource:Item

URI:	http://purl.org/vocab/resourcelist/schema#Item
Label:	Item
Subclass of	http://rdfs.org/sioc/spec/Item
Paraphrase (experimental)	A resource:Item is something that, amongst other things, is a http://rdfs.org/sioc/spec/Item

URI:	http://purl.org/vocab/resourcelist/schema#List
Label:	Resource List
Subclass of	http://rdfs.org/sioc/spec/Container
Paraphrase (experimental)	A resource:List is something that, amongst other things, is a http://rdfs.org/sioc/spec/Container

URI:	http://purl.org/vocab/resourcelist/schema#Section
Label:	Section
Subclass of	http://rdfs.org/sioc/spec/Container
Paraphrase (experimental)	A resource:Section is something that, amongst other things, is a http://rdfs.org/sioc/spec/Container

URI:	http://purl.org/vocab/resourcelist/schema#alternative
Label:	Alternative
Domain	resource:Item
Range	resource:AlernativeItem
Paraphrase (experimental)	Having a resource:alternative implies being something that, amongst other things, is a resource:Item

URI:	http://purl.org/vocab/resourcelist/schema#contains
Label:	contains
Domain	resource:List
Range	Union of resource:Section or a resource:Item
Paraphrase (experimental)	Having a resource:contains implies being something that, amongst other things, is a resource:List

URI:	http://purl.org/vocab/resourcelist/schema#created
Label:	Created Date
Domain	Union of resource:Item , resource:Section or a resource:List
Range	xsd:date
Paraphrase (experimental)	Having a resource:created implies being something that, amongst other things, is a resource:Item, resource:Section or a resource:List

URI:	http://purl.org/vocab/resourcelist/schema#description
Label:	Description
Domain	resource:List
Range	xsd:string
Paraphrase (experimental)	Having a resource:description implies being something that, amongst other things, is a resource:List

URI:	http://purl.org/vocab/resourcelist/schema#list
Label:	list
Domain	Union of resource:Item or a resource:Section
Range	resource:List
Paraphrase (experimental)	Having a resource:list implies being something that, amongst other things, is a resource:Item or a resource:Section

URI:	http://purl.org/vocab/resourcelist/schema#next
Label:	next
Domain	Union of resource:Item or a resource:Section
Range	Union of resource:Section or a resource:Item
Paraphrase (experimental)	Having a resource:next implies being something that, amongst other things, is a resource:Item or a resource:Section

URI:	http://purl.org/vocab/resourcelist/schema#previous
Label:	previous
Domain	Union of resource:Item or a resource:Section
Range	Union of resource:Section or a resource:Item
Paraphrase (experimental)	Having a resource:previous implies being something that, amongst other things, is a resource:Item or a resource:Section

URI:	http://purl.org/vocab/resourcelist/schema#resource
Label:	resource
Domain	resource:Item
Range	http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/Document
Paraphrase (experimental)	Having a resource:resource implies being something that, amongst other things, is a resource:Item

URI:	http://purl.org/vocab/resourcelist/schema#usedBy
Label:	List Used By
Domain	resource:List
Paraphrase (experimental)	Having a resource:usedBy implies being something that, amongst other things, is a resource:List

URI:	http://purl.org/vocab/resourcelist/schema#usesList
Label:	Uses Resource List
Range	resource:List