Periodical

From Schema Bib Extend Community Group

Status: Abandoned in favour of Article proposal (per 2013-12-11 meeting)


Use Cases

  • The appropriate copy use case - This use case mimics the data elements of OpenURL
  • The individual article on a web page
  • A group of individual articles on a web page (e.g. someone's bibliography). (As individual articles it is not clear that more than one will be recognized by search engines (as reported on public-vocabs, the search engines will only pick up one "thing" from each page). To make this a single thing, it may be necessary to create a bibliography type, with article members.) An example from Harvard's faculty system. Source uses COinS. Other examples output from Mendeley and Zotero are on the examples page.
  • The display of an issue of a journal with its table of contents. This may be seen as a single item, similar to a TVseries with episodes.
  • An issue of a periodical that is available for loan from a library. This would use the Holdings-as-Offers pattern to decorate the issue.

Overview

This is a relatively small proposal enable periodicals such as magazines or scholarly journals to publish core data about their issues and articles.

The proposal has been informed by the Bibliographic Ontology design for relationships between periodicals, issues, and articles.

Two new types--Periodical and PeriodicalIssue--support this proposal, each of which is a subclass of CreativeWork with a small set of new properties.

Three new properties on Article support relationships to the Periodical and PeriodicalIssue classes, as well as a new property for describing the pagination of the article within a given issue.

Thing > CreativeWork > Periodical

A publication that consists of multiple issues, such as a magazine, scholarly journal, or newspaper.

Note: sameAs bibo:Periodical?

Properties from Thing / CreativeWork

Properties from Periodical

Property Expected Type Description
endDate Date The end date and time of the event or item (in ISO 8601 date format). Note: add domainIncludes Periodical to this existing property
issn Text The International Standard Serial Number that identifies this periodical. You can repeat this property to (for example) identify different formats of this periodical. Note: sameAs bibo:issn
hasPeriodicalIssue PeriodicalIssue An individual issue of this periodical.
startDate Date The start date and time of the event or item (in ISO 8601 date format). Note: add domainIncludes Periodical to this existing property

Example 1

Original HTML

 <body>
   <h1>The Lancet</h1>
   <p>Published by Elsevier
   <ul>
     <li>ISSN: 0140-6736</li>
   </ul>
 </body>
 

With schema.org

 <body vocab="http://schema.org/" typeOf="Periodical">
   <h1 property="name">The Lancet</h1>
   <p>Published by <span property="publisher">Elsevier</span>
   <ul>
     <li>ISSN: <span property="issn">0140-6736</span></li>
   </ul>
 </body>
 

Thing > CreativeWork > PeriodicalIssue

Identifies a single issue of a Periodical, often with a volume and issue number. If the identifier is a simple string such as "Winter 2007", then use the name property to identify the issue.

Note: sameAs bibo:Issue?

Properties from Thing / CreativeWork

Properties from PeriodicalIssue

Property Expected Type Description
hasArticle Article An article contained in this issue.
issueNumber Text Identifies the issue of this periodical (for example, "iii" or "2"). Note: sameAs bibo:issue
pagination Text The range or number of pages over which a work is published (for example, "120" or "533-599").
partOfPeriodical Periodical The periodical which contains this article, issue, or volume.
volumeNumber Text Identifies the issue of this periodical (for example, "iii" or "2"). Note: sameAs bibo:volume


Example 1

A list of the issues of a given periodical, and the articles that were published in each issue.

Original HTML

 <body>
   <h1>The Lancet</h1>
   <p>Volume 376, July 2010-December 2010</p>
   <p>Published by Elsevier
   <ul>
     <li>ISSN: 0140-6736</li>
   </ul>
   <h3>Issues:</h3>
   <ul>
     <li>No. 9734 Jul 3, 2010 p 1-68</li>
     <li>No. 9735 Jul 10, 2010 p 69-140</li>
   </ul>
 </body>
 

With schema.org

 <body vocab="http://schema.org/" typeOf="Periodical">
   <h1 property="name">The Lancet</h1>
   <p>Volume 376, July 2010-December 2010</p>
   <p>Published by <span property="publisher">Elsevier</span>
   <ul>
     <li>ISSN: <span property="issn">0140-6736</span></li>
   </ul>
   <h3>Issues:</h3>
   <ul>
     <li property="hasPeriodicalIssue" typeOf="PeriodicalIssue">No. 
       <span property="issueNumber">9734</span>
       <time datetime="2010-07-03" property="datePublished">Jul 3, 2010</time>
       p <span property="pagination">1-68</span>
       <meta property="volumeNumber" content="376">
     </li>
     <li property="hasPeriodicalIssue" typeOf="PeriodicalIssue">No.
       <span property="issueNumber">9735</span>
       <time datetime="2010-07-03" property="datePublished">Jul 10, 2010</time>
       p <span property="pagination">69-140</span>
       <meta property="volumeNumber" content="376">
     </li>
   </ul>
 </body>
 

Thing > CreativeWork > Article

Note: sameAs bibo:Article?

Add a new property "pagination" to identify the pages for the article. This is frequently required by citations. Note: candidate for CreativeWork, as chapters of books and other works would also benefit from this property.

Add a new property "periodical" to identify the Periodical in which the article was published. This enables schema.org publishers to either link to the periodical of choice, or to inline the Periodical.

Property Expected Type Description
pagination Text The range or number of pages over which a work is published (for example, "120" or "533-599").
partOfPeriodical Periodical The periodical which contains this article or issue.
partOfPeriodicalIssue PeriodicalIssue The issue which contains this article.

Example 2

A citation in a bibliography.

Original HTML

 <div>
 Le Boeuf, P. (2005).Musical Works in the FRBR Model or "Quasi la Stessa Cosa": 
 Variations on a Theme by Umberto Eco. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly,
 39(3-4), 103-124. doi:10.1080/01639374.2012.682001
 </div>
 

With Schema.org

 <div vocab="http://schema.org/" typeof="Article">
   <span property="author" typeof="Author">
     <link property="url" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/22193216" />
     <span property="name">Le Boeuf, P.</span>
   </span>
   (<span property="datePublished">2005</span>).
   <span property="name">Musical Works in the FRBR Model or "Quasi la Stessa Cosa": Variations on a Theme by Umberto Eco</span>.
   <span property="partOfPeriodicalIssue" typeof="PeriodicalIssue">
     <link property="url" href="http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/wccq20/39/3-4" />
     <span property="partOfPeriodical" typeof="Periodical">
       <link property="url" href="http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/wccq20" />
       <span property="name">Cataloging & Classification Quarterly</span>,
     </span>
     <span property="volumeNumber">39</span>(<span property="issueNumber">3-4</span>),
     <span property="pagination">103-124</span>.
   </span>
   <a property="url" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2012.682001">doi:10.1080/01639374.2012.682001</a>
 </div>