Book Vocabulary
Namespace URI: http://purl.org/NET/book/vocab#
Defines a few basic terms for describing books and people’s relationships with them. It works best when combined with Dublin Core, FOAF and the Reviews vocabulary.
Examples
Describing a Person Who Owns a Book
This example describes a book with the title of “A Brief History of Time” written by “Stephen Hawkings” and ISBN 0553804367. It also describes a person called “alice” who owns a copy of the book and the condition of that copy. more…
@prefix book : <http://purl.org/NET/book/vocab#> .
@prefix dc : <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> .
@prefix ddc : <http://purl.org/NET/decimalised#c> .
@prefix event : <http://purl.org/NET/c4dm/event.owl#> .
@prefix ex : <http://example.com/ns#> .
@prefix foaf : <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
@prefix tl : <http://purl.org/NET/c4dm/timeline.owl#> .
@prefix xsd : <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
_:abhot a book:Book ;
book:isbn "0553804367" ;
dc:title "A Brief History of Time" ;
dc:creator [ a foaf:Person ; foaf:name "Stephen Hawkings" ] ;
dc:subject ddc:523 .
_:alice book:owns [
a book:Copy ;
book:book _:abhot ;
ex:condition "As good as new!"
] .
A Person Who Has Read a Book
This example describes the time during which a person “alice”read the book called “A Brief History of Time”. She read it over a period of 4 days starting on 15 October2007 in France. more…
@prefix book : <http://purl.org/NET/book/vocab#> .
@prefix dc : <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> .
@prefix ddc : <http://purl.org/NET/decimalised#c> .
@prefix event : <http://purl.org/NET/c4dm/event.owl#> .
@prefix ex : <http://example.com/ns#> .
@prefix foaf : <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
@prefix tl : <http://purl.org/NET/c4dm/timeline.owl#> .
@prefix xsd : <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
_:abhot a book:Book ;
book:isbn "0553804367" ;
dc:title "A Brief History of Time" ;
dc:creator [ a foaf:Person ; foaf:name "Stephen Hawkings" ] ;
dc:subject ddc:523 .
[] a book:Reading ;
book:reader _:alice ;
book:readingOf _:abhot ;
event:time [
a tl:Interval;
tl:at "2007-10-15"^^xsd:dateTime;
tl:duration "P4D"^^xsd:duration;
] ;
event:place <http://dbpedia.org/resource/France> .