University of Washington Libraries Semantic Web Data

The following datasets and vocabularies are published and maintained by the University of Washington Libraries Cataloging and Metadata Services department. For additional information about linked-data initiatives at the University of Washington Libraries, visit the University of Washington Libraries Semantic Web Resources page.

SKOS Concept Schemes

Linked Data Vocabularies: Children's Literature Categories

https://doi.org/10.6069/UWLIB.55.B.3

Categories for describing types of historical children's literature RDF vocabulary derived from a thesaurus intended to provide terms for describing categories of historical children's literature. The thesaurus was constructed for use in describing the University of Washington Libraries' Historical Children's Literature Collection which can be seen at https://content.lib.washington.edu/childrensweb/index.html.

Newspaper Genre List

https://doi.org/10.6069/UWLIB.55.D.5

Thesaurus for designating genres of newspapers. A SKOS vocabulary serialized as HTML/RDFa, RDF/XML, nTriples, JSON-LD, and Turtle.

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SKOS Concept Schemes for MARC 00X Values

Music: format of music

https://doi.org/10.6069/UWLSWD.06XX-6744

Indicates the format of a musical composition (e.g., piano-conductor score).

Continuing: original alphabet or script of title

https://doi.org/10.6069/UWLSWD.084W-3778

Indicates the original alphabet or script of the language of the title on the source item upon which the key title is based.

Maps: relief

https://doi.org/10.6069/UWLSWD.1C2X-CJ09

Indicate the relief type specified on the item.

Music: literary text of sound recordings

https://doi.org/10.6069/UWLSWD.23TQ-5E25

Indicates the type of literary text contained in a nonmusical sound recording.

Form of material

https://doi.org/10.6069/UWLSWD.25Z4-E963

Identifies a form of material.

Some: government publication

https://doi.org/10.6069/UWLSWD.2EG3-1X53

Indicates whether the item is published or produced by or for an international, provincial, national, state, or local government agency, or by any subdivision of such a body, and, if so, the jurisdictional level of the agency.

Computer: form of item

https://doi.org/10.6069/UWLSWD.3D5S-ZX23

Specifies the form of material for the computer file.

Continuing: form of original item

https://doi.org/10.6069/UWLSWD.42D2-CA58

Indicates the form of material in which an item was originally published.

All: type of date or publication status

https://doi.org/10.6069/UWLSWD.4A8Z-TQ62

Indicates type of date given. Or, for continuing resources, indicates publication status.

Maps: projection

https://doi.org/10.6069/UWLSWD.4JRS-M847

Indicates the projection used in producing the item.

Continuing: type of continuing resource

https://doi.org/10.6069/UWLSWD.62ZZ-1534

Indicates the type of continuing resource.

Some: nature of contents

https://doi.org/10.6069/UWLSWD.633M-H220

Indicates whether a significant part of the item is or contains certain types of material.

Music: form of composition

https://doi.org/10.6069/UWLSWD.8RPJ-EK77

Indicates the form of composition. Is based on the terminology in the work itself. Also includes musical genres (e.g., Ragtime music).

Some: target audience

https://doi.org/10.6069/UWLSWD.AEC4-NV40

Indicates the audience for which the item is intended.

Music: transposition and arrangement

https://doi.org/10.6069/UWLSWD.AXZ0-Z371

Whether all or part of the item being cataloged is a transposition and/or arrangement of another work.

Some: form of item

https://doi.org/10.6069/UWLSWD.DH5M-5Y16

Specifies the form of material.

Visual: technique

https://doi.org/10.6069/UWLSWD.EJE7-JQ11

Indicates the technique used in creating motion in motion pictures or videorecordings.

Books: literary form

https://doi.org/10.6069/UWLSWD.F447-AX91

Indicates the literary form of an item.

Continuing: frequency

https://doi.org/10.6069/UWLSWD.GGNH-4S58

Indicates the frequency of an item. In the case of integrating resources, updates to an item.

Books: illustrations

https://doi.org/10.6069/UWLSWD.GQ3Z-MV97

Indicates the presence of types of illustrations in the item.

Continuing: nature of entire work

https://doi.org/10.6069/UWLSWD.JFR5-Z647

Indicates the nature of an item if it consists entirely of a certain type of material.

Computer: type of computer file

https://doi.org/10.6069/UWLSWD.MKJN-BP10

Indicates the type of computer file described in the bibliographic record.

Continuing: regularity

https://doi.org/10.6069/UWLSWD.NPNS-E903

Indicates the intended regularity of an item.

Music: accompanying matter

https://doi.org/10.6069/UWLSWD.NT0V-D633

Indicates the contents of program notes and other accompanying material for sound recording, music manuscripts, or notated music.

Visual: type of visual material

https://doi.org/10.6069/UWLSWD.QGC0-9R48

Indicates the type of visual material being described.

Maps: special format characteristics

https://doi.org/10.6069/UWLSWD.RW25-P125

Indicates the special format characteristics of the map.

Maps: type of cartographic material

https://doi.org/10.6069/UWLSWD.VW5V-GH79

Indicates the type of cartographic item described.

Books: biography

https://doi.org/10.6069/UWLSWD.X4CE-SD21

Indicates whether or not an item contains biographical material, and if so, what the biographical characteristics are.

Continuing: entry convention

https://doi.org/10.6069/UWLSWD.YPCX-6882

Indicates whether the item was cataloged according to successive entry, latest entry, or integrated entry cataloging conventions.

Music: music parts

https://doi.org/10.6069/UWLSWD.YWJS-VR46

Indicates whether the item being cataloged is, or contains parts. Is not used to indicate that parts may exist elsewhere.

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RDF Ontology Extension

University of Washington Libraries RDA Application Profile Extension

https://doi.org/10.6069/UWLIB.55.D.4

Properties required to extend local RDA (Resource Description and Access) application profile. Extension required because RDA did not provide some elements/properties needed to fully describe our resources. Profile was written as part of the LD4P2 grant project in the interest of producing data entry forms in the Sinopia Linked Data Editor.

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RDF Vocabularies

Linked Data Platform Vocabulary

https://doi.org/10.6069/UWLIB.55.B.1

RDFS vocabulary establishing classes and properties needed to describe platforms used to process RDF datasets. The word platforms represents applications, software, scripts, programs, etc. useful in processing the datasets.

RDF Vocabulary for Linked Data Processes

https://doi.org/10.6069/UWLIB.55.B.2

Vocabulary for describing processes run on linked data datasets.

University of Washington Libraries rdfs:Class Definitions

https://doi.org/10.6069/UWLIB.55.D.1

RDF dataset describing locally-defined classes used in University of Washington Libraries Semantic Web Data.

Linked Data Platforms

https://doi.org/10.6069/UWLIB.55.D.2

Platforms (or applications) used to process RDF datasets.

University of Washington Libraries rdf:Property Definitions

https://doi.org/10.6069/UWLIB.55.D.3

RDF dataset describing locally-minted properties used in University of Washington Libraries RDF data.

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Linked Open Cultural Heritage Datasets

Instances of the SourceResource Class

https://doi.org/10.6069/UWLIB.55.A.3.1

Instances of the class http://dp.la/about/map/SourceResource represented in the University of Washington digital collections; the class is taken from the Digital Public Library of America Metadata Application Profile 5.0

Instances of the Aggregation Class

https://doi.org/10.6069/UWLIB.55.A.3.2

Instances of the class http://www.openarchives.org/ore/terms/Aggregation represented in the University of Washington digital collections; the class is taken from the Digital Public Library of America Metadata Application Profile 5.0

Instances of the WebResource Class

https://doi.org/10.6069/UWLIB.55.A.3.3

Instances of the class http://www.europeana.eu/schemas/edm/WebResource represented in the University of Washington digital collections; the class is taken from the Digital Public Library Metadata of America Application Profile 5.0

Instances of the Collection Class

https://doi.org/10.6069/UWLIB.55.A.3.4

Instances of the class http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Collection represented in the University of Washington digital collections; the class is taken from the Digital Public Library of America Metadata Application Profile 5.0

Instances of the RightsStatement Class

https://doi.org/10.6069/UWLIB.55.A.3.5

Instances of the class http://purl.org/dc/terms/RightsStatement represented in the University of Washington digital collections; the class is taken from the Digital Public Library of America Metadata Application Profile 5.0

Instances of the Agent Class

https://doi.org/10.6069/UWLIB.55.A.3.6

Instances of the class http://www.europeana.eu/schemas/edm/Agent represented in the University of Washington digital collections; the class is taken from the Digital Public Library of America Metadata Application Profile 5.0

Instances of the ProvenanceStatement Class

https://doi.org/10.6069/UWLSWD.2E2B-Y833

Instances of the class http://purl.org/dc/terms/ProvenanceStatement referenced in UW Libraries semantic web data.

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RDF Dataset Description

VoID Description of UWLSWD Linked Open Cultural Heritage Datasets

https://doi.org/10.6069/UWLIB.55.A

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