From the web of bibliographic data to the web of bibliographic meaning: structuring, interlinking and validating ontologies on the semantic web. (2nd July 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Patrício, Helena Simões; Cordeiro, Maria Inês; Ramos, Pedro Nogueira
• Is Part Of: International journal of metadata, semantics and ontologies. Volume 14:Number 2(2020)
• Page Start: 124
• Page End: 134
• Publication Date: 2020-07-02
• Subjects: LOD -- linked open data -- bibliographic data -- semantic web -- SHACL -- ontologies -- reference model -- bibliographic standards; Metadata -- Periodicals; Semantic Web -- Periodicals; Ontologies (Information retrieval) -- Periodicals; Data structures (Computer science) -- Periodicals; Information theory -- Periodicals; 005.74
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1744-2621

Abstract

Bibliographic data sets have revealed good levels of technical interoperability observing the principles and good practices of linked data. However, they have a low level of quality from the semantic point of view, due to many factors: lack of a common conceptual framework for a diversity of standards often used together, reduced number of links between the ontologies underlying data sets, proliferation of heterogeneous vocabularies, underuse of semantic mechanisms in data structures, "ontology hijacking" (Feeney et al., 2018), point-to-point mappings, as well as limitations of semantic web languages for the requirements of bibliographic data interoperability. After reviewing such issues, a research direction is proposed to overcome the misalignments found by means of a reference model and a superontology, using Shapes Constraint Language (SHACL) to solve current limitations of RDF languages.