CfP Vocabulary Specification

August 2005

Andreas Harth, Michael Kassoff

Introduction

This document describes an ontology to model academic events such as conferences. The ontology was derived from the metadata format used by the dbworld mailing list. We tried to keep the ontology small and simple. If you have feedback you can use our wiki page.

The namespace for the CfP ontology is http://sw.deri.org/2005/08/conf/cfp.owl#.

Overview

relations

Class Hierarchy

class hierarchy

A Talk is subevent of PosterSession or DemoSession or Track or Workshop or Conference. A PosterSession or DemoSession or Track or Workshop is subevent of a Conference. subevent is a partOf relation.

List of Classes and Properties

Classes

AcademicEvent | Call | CallForDemos | CallForExhibits | CallForPapers | CallForParticipation | CallForReports | CallForVideos | Conference | Continent | DemoSession | PosterSession | Talk | Track | Tutorial | Venue | Workshop | http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person |

Properties

continent | deadline | description | details | for | involved | name | startdate | subevent | takesplace | title |

Details of Classes and Properties

Class: cfp:AcademicEvent

testing

an academic event

in-range-of
cfp:for
in-domain-of
cfp:involved cfp:takesplace cfp:startdate cfp:subevent cfp:title

Class: cfp:Call

testing

a call

in-domain-of
cfp:for cfp:deadline cfp:details

Class: cfp:CallForDemos

unstable

research demos

Class: cfp:CallForExhibits

unstable

industrial exhibits

Class: cfp:CallForPapers

testing

research papers

Class: cfp:CallForParticipation

unstable

participation (shouldn't that be the general class?)

Class: cfp:CallForReports

unstable

industrial reports

Class: cfp:CallForVideos

unstable

not sure what this is

Class: cfp:Conference

testing

a conference

Class: cfp:Continent

unstable

a continent on planet earth (the only drop-down selection in dbworld)

in-range-of
cfp:continent

Class: cfp:DemoSession

unstable

a demonstration session

Class: cfp:PosterSession

unstable

a poster session

Class: cfp:Talk

unstable

A single talk

Class: cfp:Track

testing

a track

Class: cfp:Tutorial

unstable

a tutorial

Class: cfp:Venue

unstable

more general than location (could be an organization or a location (lat, lon)l) might be dropped for a vocabulary that models venues

in-range-of
cfp:takesplace
in-domain-of
cfp:continent cfp:name

Class: cfp:Workshop

unstable

a workshop

Class: cfp:http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person

None

Property: cfp:continent

unstable

which continent the conference is taking place

Domain
cfp:Venue
Range
cfp:Continent

Property: cfp:deadline

unstable

first deadline (e.g. abstracts) (what happens if deadline shifts)

Domain
cfp:Call
Range
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string

Property: cfp:description

unstable

the subject of the email

Range
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string

Property: cfp:details

unstable

email message in either xhtml (XMLLiteral) or plain text

Domain
cfp:Call
Range
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string

Property: cfp:for

unstable

which event the call is for

Domain
cfp:Call
Range
cfp:AcademicEvent

Property: cfp:involved

unstable

a person that is involved in the event

Domain
cfp:AcademicEvent
Range
http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person

Property: cfp:name

unstable

subclass of rdfs:label

Domain
cfp:Venue
Range
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string

Property: cfp:startdate

unstable

startdate of the event

Domain
cfp:AcademicEvent
Range
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date

Property: cfp:subevent

unstable

a talk is a subevent of workshop is a subevent of conference; part-of relation between events to build up a hierarchy, ie. talk partof workshop partof track partof conference

Domain
cfp:AcademicEvent

Property: cfp:takesplace

unstable

city, state, country

Domain
cfp:AcademicEvent
Range
cfp:Venue

Property: cfp:title

unstable

short name (e.g. SIGMOD, VLDB), subclass of rdfs:label

Domain
cfp:AcademicEvent
Range
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string

Acknowledgements

This visual layout and structure of the specification was adapted from the FOAF Vocabulary Specification by Dan Brickley and Libby Miller. Thanks to Uldis Bojars for help in creating this HTML document fro the owl file.

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