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#Deichman ontology
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# Deichman ontology
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##About this document
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## About this document
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This document describes the Deichman ontology.
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##Namespace
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## Namespace
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The namespace for this ontology is <http://data.deichman.no/ontology#>.
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##Prefix
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## Prefix
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The preferred prefix for this ontology is ```deichman```
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##To do
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## To do
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Owen's comment about why linked data at all
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##About this ontology
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## About this ontology
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This is a lightweight bibliographic ontology for use in library systems; the ontology is a specification for the application in use at Deichmanske bibliotek, Oslo public library. Don't let the fact that this ontology is a specification for an application — that just means that it is tried and tested and demonstrably works.
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###Why does this ontology exist?
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### Why does this ontology exist?
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The ontology was developed as the core data model for bibliographic data in LS.ext, the library system developed by Oslo public library.
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With many years of RDF and data modelling experience, heavy theorectical approaches and generic metadata approaches were eschewed in favour of a lightweight, tightly specified ontology.
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Aligning the ontology with other ontologies is a simple task and the cost in terms of technical overhead and on-the-fly mapping speed is very low; this strategy is recommended for others who develop similar systems. Providing data with these mappings can be facilitated by using Sven Larsson's AP content negotiation.
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##Broad-strokes overview
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## Broad-strokes overview
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The ontology is designed to provide an entity orientated view of bibliographic data. Several basic concepts are provided. A general work class provides support for basic bibliographic entities; the basic assumption is that everything is a work until proven otherwise.
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A specific publication of a work is a Publication entity; what constitutes a publication is that which is not common to all works; typically, this is information like carrier, publication date and publisher.
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The ontology defines numerous ways of expressing relationships between these entities and relationships with literals that express the string data associated with these entities.
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##Close view |
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## Close view |