Works Expressions Manifestations Items an Ontology

Highlights

Why a new model is needed

  • library ontologies include library business rules
  • this proposal implements a theory of ontology development known as minimal ontological commitment. (Gruber, 1993)
    • minimum semantics also means that the various community-supported vocabularies that derive from these terms may not be interoperable between them when their community-specific constraints are applied.

CWO/OpenWEMI

  • openWEMI metadata description of a created resource does not require the existence of the full WEMI stack, but it does require adherence to the logical order of the entities.
  • The relationships can be between any more abstract levels in the stack to those more concrete.
  • These entities are not defined as disjoint, as they are in FRBR. Disjointness is a restriction that would limit the ways that the entities can be defined and whether they can share attributes

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