[esip-semantictech] [EXTERNAL] Re: SWEET citation

Varanka, Dalia dvaranka at usgs.gov
Fri Jun 28 08:14:18 EDT 2019


Good question and great answers. thanks!
Dalia

On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 6:19 PM Pier Luigi Buttigieg via esip-semanticweb <
esip-semanticweb at lists.esipfed.org> wrote:

> I'd substitute the github link with a true URI (the target may move away
> from github) and add some sort of hash.
>
> Is http://sweetontology.net/ the right IRI?
>
> Most OBO ontologies will issue a new IRI for each release, such as
> http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/envo/releases/2019-03-14/envo.owl
>
> May be a good idea for SWEET too?
>
> ENVO also ties Zenodo DOIs to its releases :
> https://zenodo.org/badge/latestdoi/13996/EnvironmentOntology/envo
>
>
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> Sent from a mobile device - excuse the brevity
> w: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4366-3088>
> https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4366-3088
> On 28 Jun 2019, at 01:05, Ruth Duerr via esip-semanticweb <
> esip-semanticweb at lists.esipfed.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Believe it or not I need to cite the SWEET ontology.  Here is the only
>> recommendation I’ve found for citing an ontology (in Dutta, B. (2018). Theoretical
>> analysis and propositions for “ontology citation.” In Proc. of the Int.
>> Conf. on Exploring the Horizons of Library and Information Sciences: From
>> Libraries to Knowledge Hubs, 7-9 August, 2018 Bangalore, India, pp.
>> 451-458. ISBN 978-93-5311-726-9. Available at
>> https://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.01462):
>>
>> Table 1. The proposed template for referring an ontology
>>
>>
>> Creator. (Date). Acronym: full name of the ontology. Version(revision),
>> URI [Ontology file format]
>>
>> Where,
>>
>>   Creator refers to the main authors of an ontology (and not the
>> contributors). In the
>>
>> case of ontology, it is often the case that besides the creators, there
>> are people who contribute to the ontology in various forms (e.g.,
>> participate in the meetings, gives feedback, evaluate the ontology, point
>> to the possible bugs in an ontology, create/assist in preparing the
>> ontology documentation, etc.). We suggest mentioning only the author names.
>> All the author names should be provided. It is suggested to render the
>> author name(s) in the form of surname, first name. In case of
>> unavailability of any personal author name, provide the group name, i.e.
>> the name of the organization (or institution) produced the ontology.
>>
>>   The Date is the date of publication (release date) of an ontology. It
>> is suggested to provide the complete date of publication of a particular
>> version of an ontology. The suggested date format is YYYY-MM-DD.
>>
>>   The name of an ontology. The name of an ontology may consist of two
>> parts: acronym and full name of an ontology. In the case of ontology,
>> the use of the acronym is very common. Most of the ontologies are known by
>> their acronym (e.g., SUMO for Suggested Upper Merged Ontology, DOLCE for
>> Descriptive Ontology for Linguistic and Cognitive Engineering, BFO for
>> Basic Formal Ontology, MOD for Metadata for Ontology Description and
>> publication). Following the acronym, provide the full name of the
>> ontology. As indicated above, the acronym and the full name of an ontology
>> should be separated by a colon “:”.
>>
>>   Version(revision) is an important information for providing access to
>> a particular version of an ontology. An ontology goes through several
>> revisions and editions, time to time gets updated. As indicated, the
>> version number should be mentioned first and following this, the revision
>> number (if any) of an ontology should be provided within a circular bracket
>> “()”.
>>
>>   URI, the URI of an ontology, preferably the URI pointing to an
>> ontology file. However, in case of availability of an ontology in multiple
>> file formats, it is suggested to provide the base URI of the ontology.
>>
>>   Ontology file format. Provide the file formats within the square
>> bracket “[]”. Also, use commas “,” to separate the multiple file formats
>> (e.g., [rdf/xml, owl/xml, obo, n3]).
>> Example:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> That would make the SWEET citation something like:
>>
>> Raskin, Rob. (2002?). SWEET: Semantic Web for Earth and Environmental
>> Terminology. 2 (3.0), https://github.com/ESIPFed/sweet [ttl]
>>
>> Does that seem fine to everyone?
>>
>> Ruth
>>
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