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This work is pending of licence definition both for Norms for Chilean Congress Library Ontology and accompanying documentation in RDF. Regarding underlying technology, the Norms for Chilean Congress Library Ontology uses W3C's RDF technology, an open Web standard that can be freely used by anyone.
The Norms for Chilean Congress Library Ontology specification provides the second approach of classes and properties for describing norms and related concepts in legislative context. This ontology is described both in N3 and RDF-XML syntax, and possibly will be described too in RDFa. For now is a beta approach of the final ontology for BCN.
This ontology describes norms and their relationships in a legislative context. The follow diagram shows the main classes and relationships.
Below we define all classes and properties of the ontology:
bcnnorms:Norm
bcnnorms:RootNorm
bcnnorms:Norm
bcnnorms:Treaty
bcnnorms:RecastedText
bcnnorms:Rectification
bcnnorms:Classification
bcnnorms:Country
dbpedia-owl:Country
foaf:Document
skos:Collection
skos:Concept
bcnnorms:NormType
bcnnorms:InternationalOrganization
bcnnorms:GovernmentalOrganization
bcnnorms:GovernmentalOrganizationOriginal
dc:identifier
dc:title
dc:date
bcnnorms:publishDate
bcnnorms:promulgationDate
bcnnorms:hasNumber
gn:countryCode
bcnnorms:hasCode
owl:sameAs
rdfs:label
dc:language
bcnnorms:hasName
bcnnorms:versionDate
bcnnorms:abbreviation
bcnnorms:hasTag
bcnnorms:isLatestVersion
bcnnorms:hasDocument
bcnnorms:hasHtmlDocument
bcnnorms:hasXmlDocument
bcnnorms:isDocumentOf
bcnnorms:modifiesTo
bcnnorms:isModifiedBy
bcnnorms:regulates
bcnnorms:isRegulatedBy
bcnnorms:agreeWith
bcnnorms:isTreatyWith
bcnnorms:hasTreaty
bcnnorms:rectifies
bcnnorms:isRectifiedBy
bcnnorms:recasts
bcnnorms:isRecastedBy
bcnnorms:type
bcnnorms:alertedBy
bcnnorms:createdBy
bcnnorms:creatorOf
bcnnorms:subOrganizationOf
bcnnorms:versionOf
bcnnorms:hasVersion
The following vocabularies have been used:
(foaf) Friend of a Friend: FOAF is a project devoted to linking people and information using the Web. Regardless of whether information is in people's heads, in physical or digital documents, or in the form of factual data, it can be linked. FOAF integrates three kinds of network: social networks of human collaboration, friendship and association; representational networks that describe a simplified view of a cartoon universe in factual terms, and information networks that use Web-based linking to share independently published descriptions of this inter-connected world. FOAF does not compete with socially-oriented Web sites; rather it provides an approach in which different sites can tell different parts of the larger story, and by which users can retain some control over their information in a non-proprietary format.
(skos) Simple Knowledge Organization System:SKOS Core provides a model for expressing the basic structure and content of concept schemes (thesauri, classification schemes, subject heading lists, taxonomies, terminologies, glossaries and other types of controlled vocabulary).
(dc) Dublin Core:The Dublin Core element set defines a set of metadata elements for cataloging library items and other electronic resources.
(dbpedia-owl) DBPedia:The DBpedia Ontology is a shallow, cross-domain ontology, which has been manually created based on the most commonly used infoboxes within Wikipedia. The ontology currently covers over 272 classes which form a subsumption hierarchy and are described by 1,300 different properties.
(gn) Geonames:The GeoNames Ontology makes it possible to add geospatial semantic information to the Word Wide Web. All over 6.2 million geonames toponyms now have a unique URL with a corresponding RDF web service. Other services describe the relation between toponyms.
(org) Organization:The organization ontology is a core ontology for organizational structures, aimed at supporting linked-data publishing of organizational information across a number of domains. It is designed to allow domain-specific extensions to add classification of organzations and roles, as well as extensions to support neighbouring information such as organizational activities.
Special acknowledgements for the tips in the development of this ontology to all the WESO Research Group members, specially to José María Álvarez and José Emilio Labra. Special thanks for feedback, answer support and documentation is for Eridan Otto and Christian Sifaqui, members of BCN team.
========================= Version 0.9 (May 2011) ========================= Recent changes 20-05-2011 - Deleted ClassificationCategory class - Deleted classifies, classifiedAs, categorizes, categorizedAs properties - Added bcnnorms:hasTag property - diagram updated ========================= Version 0.8 (May 2011) ========================= Recent changes 2011-05-10 - Added InternationalOrganization class and the bidirectional relationship with Treaty class - Renamed classes: Norms to NormInstance, BaseNorm to Norm - Moved dc:identifier to Norm class - Moved foaf:Document to Norm class and its relationships ========================= Version 0.7 (May 2011) ========================= Recent changes 2011-05-09 - Added GovernmentalOrganizationOriginal class for help to solve a mismatch between the data base and rdf triples. ========================= Version 0.6 (May 2011) ========================= Recent Changes 2011-05-02 - Added automatic language detection - Added RootNorm and BaseNorm classes - Reorganization of class hierarchy and relationships - Changed the bcnnorms:instanceOf property by bcnnorms:versionOf - Updated diagram ========================= Version 0.5 (April 2011) ========================= Recent changes 2011-04-26 - Added properties bcnnorms:instanceOf, bcnnorms:hasVersion and bcnnorms:isLatestVersion - Updated diagram ========================= Version 0.4 (April 2011) ========================= Recent changes 2011-04-08 - Added bcnnorms:Country class, defined as sub class of dbpedia-owl:Country - Added bcnnorms:hasCode property, defined as sub property of gn:countryCode - Updated diagram - Updated references to all the properties and classes related to changes. ========================= Version 0.3 (April 2011) ========================= Recent changes 2011-04-07 - new text revision - added owl:inverseOf between creatorOf and createdBy properties. - deleted dc:abstract property, this because hadn't a mapped value at BCN database. - added bcnnorms:abbreviation for bcnnorms:NormType - recast property changed to recasts - added external vocabulary descriptions - accessibility AAA, tested with hera and tawdis tools - Documentation in HTML translated to spanish ========================= Version 0.2 (April 2011) ========================= Recent changes 2011-04-04 Added Properties ------------------------------- - dc:language - bcnnorms:versionDate - bcnnorms:type - bcnnorms:hasName - bcnnorms:alertedBy - bcnnorms:createdBy - bcnnorms:creatorOf - bcnnorms:subOrganizationOf Added Classes ------------------------------- - bcnnorms:NormType - bcnnorms:GovernmentalOrganization Added Vocabularies / Namespaces ------------------------------- - org Others ------------------------------- - updated ontology description - fixed breaked links - ontology diagram updated with new classes and properties - some comments added in HTML ========================= Version 0.1 (March 2011) ========================= * Initial version