This document contains the references to all the publications about SPAR Ontologies. Please note that only the ontologies that are described in at least an accepted publication are listed. For each of them, there is an indication of the main publication for citing such ontology in scholarly papers. Please use these references if you want to refer to a particular SPAR Ontology in your works.
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Peroni, S., Shotton, D. (2018). The SPAR Ontologies. In Proceedings of the 17th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2018): 119-136. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00668-6_8
This article is the first to present a bird-eye view of the whole suite of [SPAR Ontologies](/ontologies), and will be used from now on as the canonical way for citing the SPAR Ontologies.
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Bagnacani, A., Ciancarini, P., Di Iorio, A., Nuzzolese, A. G., Peroni, S., Vitali, F. (2015). Knowledge management of scholarly products: Semantic Lancet Project. In Proceedings of 16th European Conference on Knowledge Management (ECKM 2015). Reading, UK: Academic Conferences and Publishing International.
Open Access at: http://speroni.web.cs.unibo.it/publications/bagnacani-in-press-knowledge-management-scholarly.pdf
This conference paper describes the use of [SPAR Ontologies](/ontologies) within the [Semantic Lancet project](http://www.semanticlancet.eu).
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Di Iorio, A., Giannella, R., Peroni, S., Poggi, F., Vitali, F. (2015). Exploring scholarly papers through citations. In Proceedings of the 2015 ACM symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng 2015): 107-116. New York, New York, USA: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2682571.2797065
Open Access at: http://speroni.web.cs.unibo.it/publications/di-iorio-in-press-exploring-scholarly-papers.pdf
This conference paper describes [BEX](http://eelst.cs.unibo.it:8089/), a Web-based tool for navigating bibliographic scholarly data expressed according to [SPAR Ontologies](/ontologies).
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Bagnacani, A., Ciancarini, P., Di Iorio, A., Nuzzolese, A. G., Peroni, S., Vitali, F. (2015). The Semantic Lancet Project: a Linked Open Dataset for Scholarly Publishing. In Proceedings of Satellite Events of EKAW 2014, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 8982: 101-105 Berlin, Germany: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17966-7_10
Open Access at: http://speroni.web.cs.unibo.it/publications/bagnacani-2015-semantic-lancet-project.pdf
This poster paper briefly discuss the use of [SPAR Ontologies](/ontologies) within the [Semantic Lancet project](http://www.semanticlancet.eu).
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Peroni, S. (2014). The Semantic Publishing and Referencing Ontologies. In Semantic Web Technologies and Legal Scholarly Publishing: 121-193. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04777-5_5
Open Access at: http://speroni.web.cs.unibo.it/publications/peroni-2014-semantic-publishing-referencing.pdf
This book chapter provides a first and quick introduction of the original eight [SPAR Ontologies](/ontologies).
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Peroni, S., Tomasi, F., Vitali, F., Zingoni, J. (2014). Semantic lenses as exploration method for scholarly articles. In Catarci, T., Ferro, N., Poggi, A. (Eds.), Bridging between Cultural Heritage Institutions - Proceedings of the 9th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries (IRCDL 2013) - Revised Selected Papers, Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) 385: 118-129. Berlin, Germany: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54347-0_13
Open Access at: http://speroni.web.cs.unibo.it/publications/peroni-2014-semantic-lenses-exploration.pdf
This conference paper describes how to use [SPAR Ontologies](/ontologies) according to a broader theory, called semantic lenses*, that decouples the semantic annotations to associate to documents into context-based and content-based dimensions.
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Daquino, M., Mambelli, F., Peroni, S., Tomasi, F., Vitali, F. (2017). Enhancing semantic expressivity in the cultural heritage domain: exposing the Zeri Photo Archive as Linked Open Data. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 10 (4). https://doi.org/10.1145/3051487
Open Access at: https://w3id.org/people/essepuntato/papers/zeri-and-lode-jocch.html
This journal article shows the way the [SPAR Ontologies](/ontologies) have been used and extended for describing photographs and their related metadata described according to an Italian model for photografic archives called [*Scheda F*](http://www.iccd.beniculturali.it/index.php?it/387/beni-fotografici).
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Di Iorio, A., Peroni, S., Vitali, F., Zingoni, J. (2014). Semantic lenses to bring digital and semantic publishing together. In Zhao, J., van Erp, M., Keßler, C., Kauppinen, T., van Ossenbruggen, J., van Hage, W. R. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Linked Science (LISC 2014), CEUR Workshop Proceedings 1282: 12–23. Aachen, Germany: CEUR-WS.org. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1282/lisc2014_submission_6.pdf
This conference paper describes TAL, i.e., a prototypical application that enables the navigation and understanding of a scholarly document by processing its annotations written according to [SPAR Ontologies](/ontologies).
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Peroni, S. (2012). Semantic Publishing: issues, solutions and new trends in scholarly publishing within the Semantic Web era. Ph. D. Thesis. Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, Italy. http://amsdottorato.cib.unibo.it/4766/ (Open Access)
Part of this Ph.D. thesis is dedicated to the description of the original eight [SPAR Ontologies](/ontologies).
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Peroni, S., Shotton, D., Vitali, F. (2012). Faceted documents: describing document characteristics using semantic lenses. In Proceedings of the 2012 ACM symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng 2012): 191-194. New York, New York, USA: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2361354.2361396
Open Access at: http://speroni.web.cs.unibo.it/publications/peroni-2012-faceted-documents-describing.pdf
This conference paper is the first one about *semantic lenses*, i.e., a theory that decouples the semantic annotations to associate to documents into different semantical level. [SPAR Ontologies](/ontologies) are then proposed as one of the possible ways for modelling specific lenses described by the theory.
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Peroni, S., Lapeyre, D. A., Shotton, D. (2012). From Markup to Linked Data: Mapping JATS to RDF using the SPAR (Semantic Publishing and Referencing) Ontologies. In Proceeding of the Journal Article Tag Suite Conference 2012 (JATS-Con 2012). Bethesda, Maryland, USA: National Center for Biotechnology Information. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK100491/ (Open Access)
This conference paper describes the mapping between the [Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) markup language](http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/) and [SPAR Ontologies](/ontologies).
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Di Iorio, A., Nuzzolese, A. G., Peroni, S., Poggi, F., Vitali, F., Ciancarini, P. (2017). Analysing and Discovering Semantic Relations in Scholarly Data. In Grana, C., Baraldi, L. (Eds.), Digital Libraries and Archives - 13th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries (IRCDL 2017) - Revised Selected Papers, Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) 733: 3-19. Berlin, Germany: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68130-6_1
This conference paper describes the use of [SPAR Ontologies](/ontologies) within the [Semantic Lancet project](http://www.semanticlancet.eu) and the way these semantic statements are visualised by means of several interfaces.
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Peroni, S. (2017). A Simplified Agile Methodology for Ontology Development. In Proceedings of the 13th OWL: Experiences and Directions Workshop and 5th OWL reasoner evaluation workshop (OWLED-ORE 2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54627-8_5
Open Access at: https://w3id.org/people/essepuntato/papers/samod-owled2016.html
This workshop paper introduced SAMOD, the Simplified Agile Methodology for Ontology Development, is a novel agile methodology for the development of ontologies – the first draft of the methodology has been proposed in 2010 as starting point for the development of the [SPAR Ontologies](/ontologies).
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Peroni, S., Shotton, D. (2012). FaBiO and CiTO: ontologies for describing bibliographic resources and citations. In Journal of Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web, 17 (December 2012): 33-43. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.websem.2012.08.001
Open Access at: http://speroni.web.cs.unibo.it/publications/peroni-2012-fabio-cito-ontologies.pdf
This journal article introduces [FaBiO](/ontologies/fabio) and [CiTO](/ontologies/cito) with details and examples, and illustrates which projects have already adopted them.
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Ciccarese, P., Shotton, D., Peroni, S., Clark, T. (2014). CiTO + SWAN: The Web Semantics of Bibliographic Records, Citations, Evidence and Discourse Relationships. In Semantic Web – Interoperability, Usability, Applicability, 5 (4): 295-311. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.3233/SW-130098
Open Access at: http://speroni.web.cs.unibo.it/publications/ciccarese-2014-cito-swan-semantics.pdf
This journal article introduces the harmonisation process done for including [FaBiO](/ontologies/fabio) and [CiTO](/ontologies/cito) within the SWAN Ontology.
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Ciancarini, P., Di Iorio, A., Nuzzolese, A. G., Peroni, S., Vitali, F. (2014). Evaluating citation functions in CiTO: cognitive issues. In Presutti, V., d'Amato, C., Gandon, F., d'Aquin, M., Staab, S., Tordai, A. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 11th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2014), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8465: 580-594. Berlin, Germany: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07443-6_39
Open Access at: http://speroni.web.cs.unibo.it/publications/ciancarini-2014-evaluating-citation-functions.pdf
This conference paper describes extensive experiments with humans for assessing how [CiTO](/ontologies/cito) properties have been understood and interpreted for annotation tasks.
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Ciancarini, P., Di Iorio, A., Nuzzolese, A. G., Peroni, S., Vitali, F. (2013). Semantic Annotation of Scholarly Documents and Citations. In Proceedings of 13th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2013), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8249: 336-347. Berlin, Germany: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03524-6_29
Open Access at: http://speroni.web.cs.unibo.it/publications/ciancarini-2013-semantic-annotation-scholarly.pdf
This conference paper introduces a theoretical framework for the knowledge management of scholarly data and then focuses on presenting the extention to CiTalO, a tool for the automatic identification of the nature of citations according to [CiTO](/ontologies/cito).
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Di Iorio, A., Nuzzolese, A. G., Peroni, S. (2013). Towards the automatic identification of the nature of citations. In García Castro, A., Lange, C., Lord, P., Stevens, R. (Eds.), Proceedings of 3rd Workshop on Semantic Publishing (SePublica 2013), CEUR Workshop Proceedings 994: 63-74. Aachen, Germany: CEUR-WS.org. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-994/paper-06.pdf (Open Access)
This workshop paper provides a first introduction of CiTalO, a tool for the automatic identification of the nature of citations according to [CiTO](/ontologies/cito).
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Di Iorio, A., Nuzzolese, A. G., Peroni, S. (2013). Characterising citations in scholarly documents: the CiTalO framework. In Cimiano, P., Fernández, M., Lopez, V., Schlobach, S., Völker, J. (Eds.), ESWC 2013 Satellite Events - Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7955. Berlin, Germany: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41242-4_6
Open Access at: http://speroni.web.cs.unibo.it/publications/di-iorio-2013-characterising-citations-scholarly.pdf
This workshop paper introduces CiTalO, a tool for the automatic identification of the nature of citations according to [CiTO](/ontologies/cito).
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Di Iorio, A., Nuzzolese, A. G., Peroni, S. (2013). Identifying functions of citations with CiTalO. In Cimiano, P., Fernández, M., Lopez, V., Schlobach, S., Völker, J. (Eds.), ESWC 2013 Satellite Events - Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7955: 231-235. Berlin, Germany: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41242-4_30
Open Access at: http://speroni.web.cs.unibo.it/publications/di-iorio-2013-identifying-functions-citations.pdf
This demo paper shows CiTalO in action when it tries to automatically identify the nature of citations according to [CiTO](/ontologies/cito).
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Shotton, D., Peroni, S. (2010). Semantic annotation of publication entities. Presented during the Beyond the PDF Workshop. La Jolla, California, USA. http://speroni.web.cs.unibo.it/publications/shotton-2010-semantic-annotation-publication.pdf (Open Access)
This workshop paper provides a quick introduction on four [SPAR Ontologies](/ontologies), i.e., [FaBiO](/ontologies/fabio), [CiTO](/ontologies/cito), [DoCO](/ontologies/doco) and [PWO](/ontologies/pwo).
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Shotton, D. (2010). CiTO, the Citation Typing Ontology. In Journal of Biomedical Semantics, 1 (Suppl 1):S6. https://doi.org/10.1186/2041-1480-1-S1-S6
This journal article describes the version 1.6 of [CiTO](/ontologies/cito), before separating out from CiTO those aspects describing bibliographic entities, the quantification of citations, and the status of publications into three different ontologies, i.e., [FaBiO](/ontologies/fabio), [C4O](/ontologies/c4o) and [PSO](/ontologies/pso).
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Shotton, D., Portwin, K., Klyne, G., Miles, A. (2009). Adventures in Semantic Publishing: Exemplar Semantic Enhancements of a Research Article. In PLoS Computational Biology, 5(4): e1000361. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000361
This journal paper describes good practices for the semantic enhancements of research articles by using RDF and, in particular, the terms of the version 1.6 of [CiTO](/ontologies/cito).
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Constantin, A., Peroni, S., Pettifer, S., Shotton, D., Vitali, F. (2016). The Document Components Ontology (DoCO). In Semantic Web – Interoperability, Usability, Applicability, 7 (2): 167-181. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.3233/SW-150177
This journal article introduces [DoCO](/ontologies/doco) and [DEO](/ontologies/deo) with details about the main part of their classes, and several examples of use.
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Di Iorio, A., Peroni, S., Poggi, F., Vitali, F., Shotton, D. (2013). Recognising document components in XML-based academic articles. In Proceedings of the 2013 ACM symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng 2013): 181-184. New York, New York, USA: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2494266.2494319
Open Access at: http://speroni.web.cs.unibo.it/publications/di-iorio-2013-recognising-document-components.pdf
This conference paper introduces the first version of an algorithm to retrieve [DoCO](/ontologies/doco) and [DEO](/ontologies/deo) structures from XML-based academic articles.
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Shotton, D., Peroni, S. (2010). Semantic annotation of publication entities. Presented during the Beyond the PDF Workshop. La Jolla, California, USA. http://speroni.web.cs.unibo.it/publications/shotton-2010-semantic-annotation-publication.pdf (Open Access)
This workshop paper provides a quick introduction on four [SPAR Ontologies](/ontologies), i.e., [FaBiO](/ontologies/fabio), [CiTO](/ontologies/cito), [DoCO](/ontologies/doco) and [PWO](/ontologies/pwo).
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Peroni, S., Shotton, D. (2012). FaBiO and CiTO: ontologies for describing bibliographic resources and citations. In Journal of Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web, 17 (December 2012): 33-43. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.websem.2012.08.001
Open Access at: http://speroni.web.cs.unibo.it/publications/peroni-2012-fabio-cito-ontologies.pdf
This journal article introduces [FaBiO](/ontologies/fabio) and [CiTO](/ontologies/cito) with details and examples, and illustrates which projects have already adopted them.
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Ciccarese, P., Shotton, D., Peroni, S., Clark, T. (2014). CiTO + SWAN: The Web Semantics of Bibliographic Records, Citations, Evidence and Discourse Relationships. In Semantic Web – Interoperability, Usability, Applicability, 5 (4): 295-311. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.3233/SW-130098
Open Access at: http://speroni.web.cs.unibo.it/publications/ciccarese-2014-cito-swan-semantics.pdf
This journal article introduces the harmonisation process done for including [FaBiO](/ontologies/fabio) and [CiTO](/ontologies/cito) within the SWAN Ontology.
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Gonano, C. M., Mambelli, F., Peroni, S., Tomasi, F., Vitali, F. (2014). Zeri e LODE: Extracting the Zeri photo archive to linked open data: formalizing the conceptual model. In Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE/ACM Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2014): 289–298. Washington, District Columbia, USA: IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/JCDL.2014.6970182
Open Access at: http://speroni.web.cs.unibo.it/publications/gonano-2014-zeri-lode-extracting.pdf
This conference paper introduces an extension of [FaBiO](/ontologies/fabio) for describing photographs and their related metadata described according to an Italian model for photografic archives called [*Scheda F*](http://www.iccd.beniculturali.it/index.php?it/387/beni-fotografici).
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Shotton, D., Peroni, S. (2010). Semantic annotation of publication entities. Presented during the Beyond the PDF Workshop. La Jolla, California, USA. http://speroni.web.cs.unibo.it/publications/shotton-2010-semantic-annotation-publication.pdf (Open Access)
This workshop paper provides a quick introduction on four [SPAR Ontologies](/ontologies), i.e., [FaBiO](/ontologies/fabio), [CiTO](/ontologies/cito), [DoCO](/ontologies/doco) and [PWO](/ontologies/pwo).
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Peroni, S., Shotton, D., Vitali, F. (2012). Scholarly publishing and Linked Data: describing roles, statuses, temporal and contextual extents. In Sack, H., Pellegrini, T. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Semantic Systems (i-Semantics 2012): 9-16. New York, New York, USA: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2362499.2362502
Open Access at: http://speroni.web.cs.unibo.it/publications/peroni-2012-scholarly-publishing-linked.pdf
This conference paper introduces [PRO](/ontoloties/pro) and [PSO](/ontologies/pso) with details about their theorical foundations, and by discusssing several examples of use.
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Daquino, M., Peroni, S., Tomasi, F., Vitali, F. (2014). Political Roles Ontology (PRoles): Enhancing Archival Authority Records through Semantic Web Technologies. In Agosti, M., Catarci, T., Esposito, F. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries (IRCDL 2014), Procedia Computer Science 38: 60–67. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2014.10.012 (Open Access)
This conference paper introduces an extension of [PRO](/ontologies/pro) for describing political roles and their related cultural and historical contexts.
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Peroni, S., Tomasi, F., Vitali, F. (2013). The aggregation of heterogeneous metadata in Web-based cultural heritage collections. A case study. In International Journal of Web Engineering and Technologies, 8 (4): 412-432. Olney, Buckinghamshire, UK: Inderscience Publisher. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJWET.2013.059107
Open Access at: http://speroni.web.cs.unibo.it/publications/peroni-2013-aggregation-heterogeneous-metadata.pdf
This journal article shows how to use [PRO](/ontologies/pro) for describing the information about the roles of the various artists and other people in [Europeana](http://www.europeana.eu).
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Peroni, S., Tomasi, F., Vitali, F. (2013). Reflecting on the Europeana Data Model. In Agosti, M., Esposito, F., Ferilli, S., Ferro, N. (Eds.), Digital Libraries and Archives - Proceedings of the 8th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries (IRCDL 2012) - Revised Selected Papers, Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) 354: 228-240. Berlin, Germany: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35834-0_23
Open Access at: http://speroni.web.cs.unibo.it/publications/peroni-2013-reflecting-europeana-data.pdf
This conference paper provides a preliminary discussion on the use [PRO](/ontologies/pro) for describing the information about the roles of the various artists and other people in [Europeana](http://www.europeana.eu).
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Gangemi, A., Peroni, S., Shotton, D., Vitali, F. (2014). The Publishing Workflow Ontology (PWO). In Semantic Web – Interoperability, Usability, Applicability, 8 (5): 703-718. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.3233/SW-160230
Open Access at: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/system/files/swj1301.pdf
This journal article introduces the latest version of [PWO](/ontologies/pwo), discussing the adopted pattern-based modelling process and introducing two examples of its application.
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Gangemi, A., Peroni, S., Shotton, D., Vitali, F. (2014). A pattern-based ontology for describing publishing workflows. In de Boer, V., Gangemi, A., Janowicz, K., Lawrynowicz, A. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Ontology and Semantic Web Patterns (WOP 2014), CEUR Workshop Proceedings 1302: 2–13. Aachen, Germany: CEUR-WS.org. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1302/paper1.pdf (Open Access)
This workshop paper introduces the former version of [PWO](/ontologies/pwo), discussing the adopted pattern-based modelling process and introducing two examples of its application.
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Shotton, D., Peroni, S. (2010). Semantic annotation of publication entities. Presented during the Beyond the PDF Workshop. La Jolla, California, USA. http://speroni.web.cs.unibo.it/publications/shotton-2010-semantic-annotation-publication.pdf (Open Access)
This workshop paper provides a quick introduction on four [SPAR Ontologies](/ontologies), i.e., [FaBiO](/ontologies/fabio), [CiTO](/ontologies/cito), [DoCO](/ontologies/doco) and [PWO](/ontologies/pwo).