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The Bibliographic Ontology Specification provides main concepts and properties for describing citations and bibliographic references (i.e. quotes, books, articles, etc) on the Semantic Web.
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relax bibo:DocumentPart/dcterms:isPartOf? #24

Open doriantaylor opened 1 year ago

doriantaylor commented 1 year ago

I noticed that there is an owl:Restriction on dcterms:isPartOf for bibo:DocumentPart and its subclasses. Namely it asserts that an instance should only be part of exactly one parent. Is this a desired outcome? It seems to me there are lots of cases where a distinct, identifiable document part can be part of more than one document, for instance when a given chapter shows up in two or more editions of the same book with no changes. For digital documents that use transclusions, component content management, etc., a document part could easily be part of many documents.

Would there be negative ramifications to relaxing this constraint?

fgiasson commented 1 year ago

Hi @doriantaylor!

Yes I think you are right. @bdarcus do you see any potential issue that this could create downstream?

bdarcus commented 1 year ago

I really don't know.

But this issue has me wondering about whether and how we should be making changes, given the DC stewardship?

fgiasson commented 1 year ago

However, BIBO is now hosted & managed by DCMI: https://www.dublincore.org/specifications/bibo/

It should be discussed with them at this point

fgiasson commented 1 year ago

@bdarcus you are too quick, I was answer exactly that 😄

Yes, they should by now

fgiasson commented 1 year ago

Just updated the readme accordingly

bdarcus commented 1 year ago

I wonder what should happen with this report, and how DC manages changes?

Do they, for example, have their own repositories?

fgiasson commented 1 year ago

It is a good question, I am not sure how they do their versioning now.

csarven commented 7 months ago

See also: https://github.com/dcmi/bibo/issues/1 and https://github.com/structureddynamics/Bibliographic-Ontology-BIBO/pull/25#issuecomment-1950235796