HCLSIG/SWANSIOC/Meetings/2010-10-18 Conference Call
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DRAFT Agenda
1. Housekeeping
2. Presentation of the SWAN / CiTO / FaBIO / PRISM alignment
3. Next steps
- Alignment with BiBO
- CiTO + SWAN IG Note
4. Wrap-Up
Discussion Materials
SWAN-CiTO alignment process on this wiki SPAR (CiTO, FaBIO, etc.) Ontologies Home Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (IFLA 1998)
Minutes
Paolo: We were working on citations in SWAN & David was working as well separately, basing on FRBR, decided to align the two efforts
Paolo: Working for a while - not an alignment anymore - turned into something different - SWAN citations dropped in favor of new evolution of CiTO, which is more modular than the original
Paolo: why created new entity? SWAN has been around for some time, ditto CiTO, attempt to reduce the number of ontologies - ended up with a single model Paolo: we are starting to use David's model for SWAN, the Annotation Framework, etc.
David: two summer ago I was involved in semantic enhancements of an exemplar paper (adventures in semantic annotations) part of which was to enhance the info about citations, => developed CiTO, "A cites B", "A refutes B", etc. and it contained info about the cited article
David: was aware of existence of BiBO etc, but found the FRBR model very clarifying, it's less flat, so I went with it
David: we converged SWAN and CiTO, and deprecated SWAN.Citations (which actually described bibliographic objects) but in the process of so doing, we decided (assisted by Silvio Peroni) to modularize CiTO into FaBIO for bibliographic objects. The citations are in CiTO, the Bibliographic records are in FaBIO. FaBIO includes the PRISM classes and extends them a bit.
David: to help the alignment with SWAN we relaxed domain and range restrictions and added some restrictions. Paolo suggested a bunch of things. SWAN team can now use them. We just finished a paper on this activity. In process of modularizing CiTO, we also created two more ontologies (have plans for another 4) for other stuff related for citations, e.g. counting etc.) BiRO is for bibliographic references within a bibliographic record. Using SWAN ordered lists we can now create bibliographic lists etc.
David: also plan to create other SPAR ontologies, pub status, roles, workflow, document components - will try to harmonize document components with Anita deWaard's work.
Paolo: we should provide examples of instantiated citations on the Wiki, put in some parts of our paper etc.
David: I've revised the exemplar article from Adventures in semantic annotation, can submit to the wiki
Joanne: how can an individual researcher make use?
David: I make up metadata for all my papers [ will put a sample on the wiki ] CiteULike has just adopted CiTO, btw - they just grabbed it - we had nothing to do with us
Paolo: behind the process of doing an annotation tool for online documents, we may be able to surface bibliographic objects & citations, are working on a version for NIF, that should be able to provide access to CiTO & FaBIO - will be the subject of the call next Monday
David: just posted on the chat channel the URL of CiteULike, from Egon Willihagen, uses methodin to do an indirect citation, method comes indirectly (implicitly)
Jodi: how is that being populated in CiteULike? David: I had nothing to do with it
Paolo: we' will provide more examples on the wiki, use cases - also, we can provide some comparison or alignment between FaBIO and BiBO
David: Silvio and I have used SKOS to represent the equivalence of the BiBO classes to those in FaBIO
David: a lot of equivalent classes, FaBIO is just more expressive, we have been aligning with the BiBO "Expressions"
Paolo: can we provide examples of translations?
David: people also wanted to align with BiBTex (used in PLoS) - we should do that
Paolo: two ways to provide mappings, (a) with SKOS, (b) to describe with examples and tables - second way could be used to give people a clearer idea, for when you are writing software, I'll send you some BiBO examples
Paolo: should we do a note David: yes Tim: yes
Tim: we should also make sure that everything is built into useful applications
David: could build this into Phil Bourne's MS Word plugin
Jodi: you could also use the Cite&Write tools in Zotero, EndNote and Bibtex - could be easier to get traction with those groups
David: Thompson-Reuters is selling this stuff - maybe we should work with the open access people, starting to talk with Mendeley, they seem remarkably open, any other suggestions
David: we and Peter Murray-Rust have a pair of JISC funded projects for open bibliography on the web which will use these models.
Paolo: next week - demo of the Annotation Framework next week, referring back to AO
Gully: recommend using VYEW.com for webcasts...