This class represents lectures with an educational purpose, e.g within a university.
Lecture
All research topics inherit from this concept. This should serve as a plugin point for the research topic ontology.
Topic
"The surname of a person." NOTE: the naming substructure of foaf is currently quite unstable.
Surname
The chapter (or section or whatever) number which this Inbook represents.
Chapter
An article in a conference proceedings (i.e. Proceedings).
Inproceedings
"Points to a list of rss:item elements that are members of the subject channel." NOTE: the range is actually rdf:Seq
Items
"Concept date and its representation according to the Gregorian Calendar." For the excat definition of this class, please refere to http://www.wsmo.org/2004/d3/d3.3/v0.1/ .
The tasks of a member of the administrative staff.
Tasks
This class represents all kinds of presentations.
Presentation
How something strange has been published.
How Published
The articles or papers which a journal containes.
Contains Articles
This class represents universities. We decided to introduce two different classes to distinguish between universities and independent research institutes. The main difference is actually the different kinds of independence. In contrast to a university, a research institute is independent from the rigorous bureaucracy of the mainly state-run universities. On the other hand, a university is independent from the economy and the financial support of companies. Thus, the kind of research an independent research institute practises is generally more application-oriented.
University
The deliverables for this project. The inverse is forProject .
Deliverables
The second foaf:Agent in an AgentSequence .
Second
"An interval represents a duration between 2 points in time." For the excat definition of this class, please refere to http://www.wsmo.org/2004/d3/d3.3/v0.1/ .
A Cluster is a kind of group which focuses on a research area and typically is part of a research institute or university.
Cluster
At School
The school where a thesis was written.
This class defines geopraphical bodies that are cities.
City
"A person known by this person (indicating some level of reciprocated interaction between the parties)."
Knows
Starting Time
The time when some event starts.
A report published by a school or other organization, usually numbered within a series ( Series ). This concept has been merged from BibTex's techreport and manual types, since both are described very similiar.
Techreport
An initiative is a group which has specific aims. It differs from foaf:Project in that it normally doesn’t have any funding. Often, its duration is longer.
Initiative
The number of a journal, magazine, techreport, or of a work in a series. An issue of a journal or magazine is usually identified by its volume and number; the organization that issues a technical report usually gives it a number; and sometimes books are given numbers in a numbered series. Deliverables for a project may also be given numbers.
Number
This class represents all kinds of tutorials.
Tutorial
The goal a group aims at. NOTE: foaf:theme provides a similar functionality.
Goal
This class defines geopraphical bodies that are regions, with the intended meaning "sub-division of a country".
Region
The chapters or similar which a book contains.
Contains Chapters
A book with an explicit publisher. NOTES: - Either authors or editedBy must be given - Either volume or number may be given.
Book
The title of the publication (book, article, ...) or publication container (series, journal).
Title
The tutorials that are offered during the course of an event.
Tutorials
This class defines geopraphical bodies that can be contained in cities.
Sub-City
The fifth foaf:Agent in an AgentSequence .
Fifth
RSS1.0 News Channel
"An RSS information channel."
The journal or magazine which contains this article.
Contained in Journal
This property relates an agent to its address.
Address
A document which does have an author and title, but hasn't been formally published.
Unpublished
This is an adhoc solution for creating and ordered group of Agents, e.g. an authorlist.
A working group is similar to Initiative . We might unify two classes into one in the future.
Working Group
This class models companies that develop software and sell it.
Software Company
A document which is produced as part of a project. Deliverables are not formally published. NOTE: This concept was not derived from any of the BibTex types, but considered useful anyway.
Deliverable
"A person. The foaf:Person class represents people. Something is a foaf:Person if it is a person. We don't nitpick about whether they're alive, dead, real or imaginary."
Person
The faxnumber of some foaf:Agent .
Fax
This property defines the leader of an organization, i.e. its director, chairman, etc.
Leader
The presentations that are offered during the course of an event.
Presentations
"A topic of some page or document. The foaf:topic property relates a document to a thing that the document is about. As such it is an inverse to the foaf:page property, which relates a thing to a document about that thing."
The author or authors of a document. For multiple authors, use either an instance of foaf:Group , or multiple values.
Authors
The eigth foaf:Agent in an AgentSequence .
Eigth
Interests
Article
An article from a journal or magazine.
The Volume s of this journal.
RSS1.0 News Item
"Indicates a member of a Group." This property relates a set of agents to a group. These are the members of that group.
Member
Complete Name
"The name of some thing."
"A project (a collective endeavour of some kind)." Within the context of the SWPortal Ontology we specify foaf:Project as such: A project is an endeavour of a group which has a specific aim. As a project can also be individualized and can publish documents and the like, we model it as a subclass of foaf:Agent. It has members and inherits all properties of foaf:Agent and foaf:Group . Also, projects are usually funded.
Project
Instances of this class represent exact postal addresses. Note that either postbox of streetAddress should be given.
Postal Address
"A current project this person works on." NOTE: FOAF defines the range as foaf:Person - we decided to change this to the more general foaf:Agent , since other types of Agents (e.g. a company) can also have projects. We have also defined an inverse for this property (see drivenBy ).
Current Project
This class defines geopraphical bodies that can be contained in countries.
Sub-Country
The areas of research some research institute is involved in.
Research Areas
This property relates an agent to the presentations it gives. The inverse property is presenter .
Gives Presentations
As foaf:Project , Initiative and WorkingGroup differ from Cluster in having a specific duration, we comprise these there temporal groups in this class which represents all kinds of temporary groups.
Temporary Group
"The foaf:phone of something is a phone, typically identified using the tel: URI scheme." The tel: URI scheme is defined in http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2806.txt.
Telephone
Note
The instance of Series in which this document was published.
In Series
The foaf:Agent this project is driven by. This is inverse to foaf:currentProject . NOTE: How do we deal with the relation between drivenBy and foaf:pastProject ?
Driven by
Tutor
The tutors of a tutorial.
This class represents all kinds of workshops
Workshop
The date of publication of some publication or software. Bibtex defines year and month. These are here combined to publicationDate.
Publication Date
Some sort of publication which doesn't fit into any of the other concepts.
Misc
A specific point in time during any arbitrary day. For the excat definition of this class, please refere to http://www.wsmo.org/2004/d3/d3.3/v0.1/ .
This class represents administrative staff.
Administrative Staff
The third foaf:Agent in an AgentSequence .
Third
"Something that was made by this agent." In the context of the SWPortal ontology, this could e.g. be an Tool .
Made
The aim of the Semantic Web Portal Ontology is to serve as the conceptual backbone for community portals driven by Semantic Web technologies.
SWPortal Ontology - Semantic Web Portal Ontology
This class defines geopraphical bodies that can be contained in continents.
Sub-Continent
Duration
The duration of a temporary group.
The instances of this class comprise all publications which have a specific publication date. If a publication P is contained within an PublicationContainer , and this container has a publication date, than P is not an IndividualPublication . Example: an Inbook publication is not an IndividualPublication , because its publication date can be inferred from the Book which contains it.
Dated Publication
This class represents research institutes. These organizations have special research areas.
Research Institute
The project for which this deliverable is produced. The inverse is deliverables .
For Project
The version number of a document or tool.
Version
Similar to the Agent concept, we have again decided to include a concept from the popular FOAF ontology. The FOAF Vocabulary Specification currently defines Document in a very loose way: "The foaf:Document class represents those things which are, broadly conceived, 'documents'. ... We do not (currently) distinguish between physical and electronic documents, or between copies of a work and the abstraction those copies embody." The intended use of this concept within the SWPortal ontology is to subsume everything that contains some sort of information and has been produced by some foaf:Agent An instance of Document can either refer to an electronic or physical thing, as long as it is adressable by means of a URI. Examples are a book written, or a picture taken by a person, but also a log file generated by a machine.
Document
This class represents an organization with a formal legal status. We introduce this class as a subclass of foaf:Organization and foaf:Group , because we consider an organization as a kind of group.
Organization
A scientific journal or magazine. The instances of this class are not individual issues or voulumes of a journal, but the journal as such.
Journal
The tenth foaf:Agent in an AgentSequence .
Tenth
This class defines geopraphical bodies that are countries.
Country
"A theme. The foaf:theme property is rarely used and under-specified. The intention was to use it to characterise interest / themes associated with projects and groups. Further work is need to meet these goals." NOTE: This property is only listed for comparison with goal.
Theme
The Continent in which some SubContinent is contained.
In Continent
The Journal this volume belongs to.
The organization that sponsors a conference or that publishes a manual or techreport.
From Organization
Enddate
The ending date some event.
This class represents all kinds of researchers who are not students.
Research Staff
This class defines geopraphical bodies that can be contained in regions.
Sub-Region
The papers or similar which a proceedings contains.
Contains Papers
This class represents all kinds of administrative staff that is employed for technical issues. Examples are system administrators, hardware specialists, etc.
This property relates an agent to the events it organizes. The inverse property is organizedBy .
Organizes
"A personal mailbox, i.e. 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 ." Because we switched over to OWL Lite– ,we don’t have functional properties anymore. However, we recommend to the users of this ontology to apply this property like it is described in the FOAF specification.
Email
This class defines geopraphical bodies that are continents.
Continent
The sixth foaf:Agent in an AgentSequence .
Sixth
If this publication can be accessed in electronic form, the corresponding URL can be using the rss:link property. NOTE: this definition is a slightly extended version of the definition in the RSS 1.0 specification.
Link
A thesis written to receive a Master degree.
Master Thesis
The zipcode of some PostalAddress (if applicable). This is simply a string with no prescribed syntax.
The Country in which some SubCountry is contained.
In Country
"A class of Agents. The foaf:Group classs represents a collection of individual agents (and may itself play the role of a foaf:Agent , i.e. something that can perform actions)."
Group
The City in which some SubCity is contained.
In City
The instance of Publisher which published this document.
Publisher
Any kind of thesis produced to receive some sort of university degree.
Thesis
The edition of a book---for example, ``Second''. This should be an ordinal, and should have the first letter capitalized, as shown here; the standard styles convert to lower case when necessary.
Edition
The volume of a journal or a multi-volume book.
Volume
Series
A series or set of books.
This class models companies that publish documents.
Publishing Company
Presenter
The presenter of a presentation.
The first foaf:Agent in an AgentSequence .
First
The PO-Box of some PostalAddress .
POBox
"An agent (e.g. person, group, software or physical artifact)." NOTE: We adopted this concept partially from the FOAF ontology. However, in our ontology the agent concept does not comprise the subclasses software and physical artifact. We decided to introduce this main concept in order to make the range of e.g. the attribute authors of a publication more general.
Agent
This class represents all kinds of persons who are researchers. Each has a research area.
Researcher
The street address part of an PostalAddress . Can have multiple lines.
Street
The ninth foaf:Agent in an AgentSequence .
Ninth
Starting Date
The starting date some event.
This class comprises all kinds of publications which contain other publications, such as journal, proceedings, series, etc. An instance of PublicationContainer has an editor.
Publication Container
"The foaf:Organization class represents a kind of foaf:Agent corresponding to social institutions such as companies, societies, etc." As we consider an organization to be a group as well, we introduced a subclass Organization as a subclass of both foaf:Organization and foaf:Group . We added foaf:Organization to facilitate FOAF based agents to query our ontology.
"A link to the publications of this person." This property relates an agent to its publications. NOTE: foaf defines the range as foaf:Person - we decided to change this to the more general foaf:Agent , since other types of Agents (e.g. a company) can also have publications (with no specific human authors).
Publications
Proceedings
The proceedings of a conference.
The organizers of an event. At least one agent has to organize an event. The inverse property is organizes .
Organized by
A part of a Book, which may be a chapter (or section or whatever) and/or a range of pages. Because the BibTex types inCollection and inBook are very similiar, we decided to keep the ontology as simple as possible and merge them both into Inbook .
Inbook
This class represents any kind of software tool. At the moment, this class is clearly underspecified.
Tool
This property relates an agent to the tutorials it gives. The inverse property is tutoredBy .
Gives Tutorials
The proceedings some paper or similar is contained in.
Contained in Proceedings
This class is the superclass for all classes defining geographical locations. The approach for this subontology is to have a hierarchy of location classes, such that instances of the classes further down in the hierarchy can be contained in instances of the classes higher up in the hierarchy. On each level, there exist two sister classes: class L defines a certain type of location, while class SubL defines locations which can be contained in instances of L. SubL then defines a property inL, to express which instance of L an instance of SubL is contained in. E.g. for a class Continent, there exists a class SubContinent. All children of SubContinent (either direct or transitive) define locations that can be contained in a continent, such as countries, regions, cities, etc. By virtue of inheritance, all these location classes then have a property inContinent, to express that they are contained in some continent. In a simpler, flat structure, inContinent would have to be defined explicitly for all kinds of locations that can be contained in a continent. The intepretation of the inL predicates should be as follows: if, for a particular instance K, inL has a value, this value is valid. If inL has no value, the value of inL in the next location K is contained in valid, and so forth. E.g. an instance "Hawaii" has the value "Oceania" defined for inContinent and "USA" for inCountry . "Delaware" has no value for inContinent. "USA" has the value "North America" for inContinent . The interpretation would be that "Hawaii" is located in "Oceania", while "Delaware" is located in "North America". We are aware of the fact that this approach is idealized and can therefore conflict with reality in some situations. E.g., the exact borders of continents are not always defined (there are contradicting opinions on where exactly Europe begins or ends). Countries could be contained in more than one continent (Turkey belongs to both Europe and Asia). However, we think that these situations are marginal and have little or no impact on the intended use of this ontology. We think that this recursive modelling of locations is at the same time simple and powerful enough to capture all necessary aspects of the concept of location for a domain such as an SWPortal. While the SubL classes might appear to be somewhat artificial, they are actually not. They are just an abstraction for geographical entities that are (under normal circumstances) smaller than entities of type L. As such, they are no more abstract than, say, the concept of an agent.
Location
An individual volume of some Journal .
This class represents all kinds of conferences in the academic domain.
Conference
A work package is a subdivision of a project. It stands in a part-of relationship to foaf:Project .
Work Package
A work that is printed and bound, but without a named publisher or sponsoring institution.
Booklet
This class represents all kinds of administrative staff that is related to clerical support. Examples are secretaries, accountants, etc.
The fourth foaf:Agent in an AgentSequence .
Fourth
Description
Lecturer
The agent who is giving the lecture.
A thesis written to receive a PhD degree.
PhD Thesis
The Location of an Event .
This class represents all kinds of researchers who are students.
Student
This class is the super-class for any kind of news item.
News Item
"The first name of a person." NOTE: the naming substructure of foaf is currently quite unstable.
First Name
One or more page numbers or range of numbers, such as 42--111 or 7,41,73--97 or 43+ (the `+' in this last example indicates pages following that don't form a simple range). To make it easier to maintain Scribe-compatible databases, the standard styles convert a single dash (as in 7-33) to the double dash used in TeX to denote number ranges (as in 7--33).
Pages
This class represents events relevant for the area of teaching, research, business, i.e. conferences, presentations, tutorials, workshops and lectures.
Event
The Book in which an Inbook is contained.
Contained in Book
The Region in which some SubRegion is contained.
In Region
Edited by
This class represents all kinds of companies. Currently only publishers and software developers are modelled.
Company
Publications are both individual documents and collections of documents such as series, journals, etc.
Publication
Workpackages
The work packages of a project.
This class represents the management staff.
Management Staff
This property defines the products of a company.
Products
The seventh foaf:Agent in an AgentSequence .
Seventh
Defines what project a workpackage belongs to.
Belongs to Project
Endtime
The time when some event ends.
"A project this person has previously worked on." NOTE: foaf defines the range as foaf:Person - we decided to change this to the more general foaf:Agent , since other types of Agents (e.g. a company) can also have projects.
Past Project