Format Considerations

We probably want to stop using Mozilla's RDF support for writing RDF/XML, or at least try to clean it up a little. In order to make our RDF as interoperable as possible, we probably want to write it in an XML-based format that's relatively easy for other implementations to read. We might also want to consider Turtle, a simple, human-readable subset of N3. Simplified RDF/XML would be easier to parse using standard XML parsing libraries; Turtle would be more compact and easier to read. In either case, a number of libraries exist for parsing RDF/XML in various languages.

note from bruce: this looks good, but some of the net-related stuff (IM, Blog, forum post, etc.) could be better covered using ​SIOC. Possibly relevant types for Zotero include:

• sioct:AnnotationSet
• sioct:BookmarkFolder
• sioct:ReadingList
• sioct:BlogPost
• sioct:BoardPost
• sioct:Comment
• sioct:InstantMessage
• sioct:MailMessage
• sioct:MicroblogPost
• sioct:WikiArticle
• sioct:Category
• sioct:Tag

SIOC also has some interesting types relating to commentary.

Keep in mind too that a resource may have more than one type. Also per conversation on the forums with Dan S., I think it might be valuable to talk about how to model a library, and contents.

Item Type Mappings

Zotero Type	RDF Type
artwork	bibo:Image?
attachment	not in bibo, but probably fine to use something from Zotero namespace
audioRecording	bibo:AudioDocument
bill	bibo:Bill
blogPost	bibo:PersonalCommunication dc:type sioct:BlogPost
book	bibo:Book/bibo:EditedBook
bookSection	bibo:BookSection
case	bibo:LegalDecision
blogPost	bibo:Webpage
computerProgram	?
conferencePaper	bibo:Article bibo:presentedAt bibo:Conference
dictionaryEntry	bibo:Article dc:isPartOf bibo:ReferenceSource (Bruce commented in June 2008 that this had been accidentally deleted) dc:type z:Dictionary? ...but we would probably be better off with a bibo:Dictionary subclass of bibo:ReferenceSource
document	bibo:Document
email	bibo:Email
encyclopediaArticle	See dictionaryEntry above
film	bibo:Film
forumPost	bibo:Webpage dc:type sioct:BoardPost
hearing	bibo:Hearing
instantMessage	bibo:PersonalCommunication dc:type sioct:InstantMessage
interview	bibo:Interview
journalArticle	bibo:AcademicArticle dc:isPartOf bibo:Issue dc:isPartOf bibo:Journal
letter	bibo:Letter
magazineArticle	bibo:Article dc:isPartOf bibo:Issue dc:isPartOf bibo:Magazine
manuscript	bibo:Manuscript
map	bibo:Map
newspaperArticle	bibo:Article dc:isPartOf bibo:Issue dc:isPartOf bibo:Newspaper
note	bibo:Note
patent	bibo:Patent
podcast	bibo:AudioDocument dc:type z:Podcast
presentation	bibo:Slideshow?
radioBroadcast	po:Broadcast dcterms:medium po:Radio?
report	bibo:Report
statute	bibo:Statute
thesis	bibo:Thesis
tvBroadcast	po:Broadcast dcterms:medium po:TV?
videoRecording	bibo:AudioVisualDocument
webpage	bibo:Webpage

Field Mappings

The list of base field mappings was generated by the SQLite query

SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(f1.fieldName, '[[BR]]') FROM fields AS f1
LEFT JOIN baseFieldMappings AS b ON (b.fieldID = f1.fieldID)
LEFT JOIN fields AS f2 ON (f2.fieldID = b.baseFieldID)
GROUP BY IFNULL(b.baseFieldID, f1.fieldID)
ORDER BY IFNULL(b.baseFieldID, f1.fieldID);

Zotero Field	RDF Property
url	dcterms:URI
rights	dc:rights
series	dc:title on bibo:Series
volume	bibo:volume (on dc:isPartOf bibo:Issue for journal articles)
codeVolume	bibo:volume on dc:isPartOf bibo:Code
reporterVolume	bibo:volume on dc:isPartOf bibo:CourtReporter
issue	bibo:issue on bibo:Issue
edition	bibo:edition
place	address:localityName on dc:publisher foaf:Organization
country	address:countryName on dc:publisher foaf:Organization
publisher institution label studio network company university	foaf:name on dc:publisher
pages codePages	bibo:pages
firstPage	bibo:pageStart
ISBN	bibo:isbn10/bibo:isbn13
publicationTitle encyclopediaTitle dictionaryTitle websiteTitle forumTitle blogTitle proceedingsTitle bookTitle	dc:title on dc:isPartOf
ISSN	bibo:issn on bibo:Journal
date issueDate dateDecided dateEnacted	dc:date
section	dc:title on dc:isPartOf bibo:section
callNumber	bibo:lccn
archiveLocation	dc:source
distributor	bibo:distributor
extra	z:extra
journalAbbreviation	bibo:shortTitle on bibo:Journal
DOI	bibo:doi
accessDate	z:accessDate (should be in bibo?)
seriesTitle	dc:title on dc:isPartOf bibo:Series (doesn't seem to be used on any item types concurrently with the series field)
seriesText	dc:description on dc:isPartOf bibo:Series
seriesNumber	bibo:number on dc:isPartOf bibo:Series
code	dc:title on dc:isPartOf bibo:Code
session	?
legislativeBody	?
history	?
reporter	dc:title on dc:isPartOf bibo:CourtReporter
court	bibo:court
numberOfVolumes	should be added to bibo
committee	?
assignee	?
priorityNumbers	?
references	dc:references
legalStatus	?
codeNumber	dc:number on dc:isPartOf bibo:Code
patentNumber reportNumber billNumber documentNumber publicLawNumber episodeNumber docketNumber applicationNumber	bibo:number
artworkSize	dc:extent
repository	z:repository
scale	?
meetingName	?
runningTime	po:duration
version	bibo:edition
system	?
conferenceName	dc:title on dc:isPartOf bibo:Conference
language	dc:language
programmingLanguage	dc:language (doesn't seem to be used on any item types concurrently with the language field)
abstractNote	dc:description
type reportType videoRecordingType letterType manuscriptType mapType thesisType websiteType audioRecordingType presentationType postType audioFileType
medium artworkMedium interviewMedium	dcterms:medium
title caseName nameOfAct subject	dc:title
shortTitle	bibo:shortTitle
numPages	?