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British Library Terms RDF schema
British Library Terms RDF schema
Some useful terms for describing bibliographic resources that other models did not include.
2011-06-28
2012-01-09
This schema describes properties and classes defined to facilitate the description of bibliographic resources and their relationships to other entities. The properties and classes defined by this schema supplement properties and classes from other ontologies. A diagram of the full model as used by the British Library is available at: http://www.bl.uk/bibliographic/datafree.html
Publication event
An event which is the publication of a resource.
Publication event start
An event which is the start of the publication of a resource.
Publication event end
An event which is the end of the publication of a resource.
Family
A family
Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) number
A Dewey Decimal Classification number (as found in British Library cataloguing data)
Library of Congress Subject Heading (LCSH)
A Library of Congress Subject Heading (LCSH) (as found in British Library cataloguing data)
Person Concept
A person expressed as a concept.
Organization Concept
An organization expressed as a concept.
Family Concept
A family expressed as a concept.
Place Concept
A place expressed as a concept.
BNB number
The BNB number associated with this resource
has created
the inverse property of dct:creator
has contributed to
the inverse property of dct:contributor
Publication
The publication event of a resource.
Publication start
The start of the publication event of a resource.
Publication end
The end of the publication event of a resource.