Linked Science Core Vocabulary Specification

29 November 2011

This version:

http://linkedscience.org/lsc/ns-20111129

Latest version:

http://linkedscience.org/lsc/ns

Previous version:

http://linkedscience.org/lsc/ns-20110526

Revision:

Revision: 0.91

Authors:

Alkyoni Baglatzi (Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Muenster, Germany)

Tomi Kauppinen (Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Muenster, Germany)

Carsten Keßler (Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Muenster, Germany)

Contributors:

See acknowledgements.

Copyright © 2011 - 2011 Alkyoni Baglatzi and Tomi Kauppinen, Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Muenster, Germany.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. This copyright applies to the Linked Science Core Vocabulary and accompanying documentation.

Linked Science Vocabulary Specification relies on W3C's RDF technology, an open Web standard that can be freely used by anyone.

This visual layout and structure of the specification was adapted from the Open Provenance Model Vocabulary edited by Jun Zhao, SIOC Core Ontology Specification edited by Uldis Bojars and John G. Breslin and the Provenance Vocabulary Core Ontology Specification edited by Olaf Hartig and Jun Zhao.

Table of contents

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Linked Science Core Vocabulary at a glance
• 3. Description about LSC core vocabulary
• • 3.1. Evolution and extension of LSC
• 4. Cross-reference for core LSC classes and properties
• 5. Acknowledgements
• 6. References
• 7. Change log

1. Introduction

The Linked Science Core Vocabulary is defined as a set of classes and properties.

You may browse the also using Sindice Inspector as a graph or as a list.

The XML Namespace URI that should be used by implementations of this specification is:

• http://linkedscience.org/lsc/ns# - The Namespace of the Linked Science Core Vocabulary

The prefix the Linked Science Core vocabulary is "lsc":

• @prefix lsc: <http://linkedscience.org/lsc/ns#> .

2. The Linked Science Core Vocabulary at a glance

An alphabetical index of terms from the Linked Science Core Vocabulary, by class and by property, are given below. All the terms are hyperlinked to their detailed description for quick reference.

Classes: | Publication | Research | Researcher | Method | Hypothesis | Prediction | Conclusion | Data |

Properties: | isAboutTime | isAboutRegion | reportedIn | reports | isSupportedBy | dataProduced | dataUsed | timeAccepted | timeRevised | timeSubmitted | participatesIn | makes | tests | confirms | falsifies | produces | methodUsed |

The Core LSC definitions presented here are written using a computer language (RDF/OWL) that makes it easy for software to process some basic facts about the terms in the Linked Science Core Vocabulary, and consequently about the things described using LSC.

3.1. Evolution and extension of LSC

The Linked Science Core Vocabulary is identified by the namespace URI "http://linkedscience.org/lsc/ns#".

Revisions and extensions of LSC are conducted through edits to the namespace document, which by convention is published on the Web at the namespace URI.

The properties and types defined here provide some basic concepts for describing information relevant about research. Other vocabularies (e.g. AIISO - Academic Institution Internal Structure Ontology, BIBO - The Bibliographic Ontology, W3C Ontology for Media Resources, the Time Ontology in OWL, the Open Provenance Model Vocabulary, Semantic Publishing and Referencing Ontologies (SPAR), SWAN Ontology etc.) can also be mixed in with LSC terms. LSC is designed to be extended.

Classes:

Properties:

5. Acknowledgement

6. References

• Tomi Kauppinen, Alkyoni Baglatzi and Carsten Keßler. Linked Science: Interconnecting Scientific Assets. In Terence Critchlow and Kerstin Kleese-Van Dam (Eds.): Data Intensive Science. CRC Press, USA, 2012 (to appear).

7. Change log

• 2011-11-29: Researcher is now a subclass of foaf:Person, and publication is a subclass of bibo:Document.
• 2011-05-26: Initial version of the LSC vocabulary.