Replace bibo properties and types

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bibo URIs don't resolve anymore, see e.g. http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/Book or http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/isbn. The website http://bibliontology.com/ currently has problem with links. There is another website at http://bibliographic-ontology.org/. I have my doubts about the future of bibo though a new human-readable interface might actually come, see structureddynamics/Bibliographic-Ontology-BIBO#10 (comment).

Nonetheless, we should try to replace bibo which we especially use for properties. Will look into RDA and Bibframe.

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The vocabulary URI now redirects to the new domain, see https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/bibliographic-ontology-specification-group/7WTE6VhyhMo. Class and property URIs still don't resolve.

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Here are the bibo properties and classes from the JSON-LD context:

    "doi" : {
      "@id" : "http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/doi",
      "@container" : "@set"
    },
    "edition" : {
      "@id" : "http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/edition",
      "@container" : "@set"
    },
    "editor" : {
      "@type" : "@id",
      "@id" : "http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/editor",
      "@container" : "@set"
    },
    "eissn" : {
      "@id" : "http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/eissn",
      "@container" : "@set"
    },
    "isbn" : {
      "@id" : "http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/isbn",
      "@container" : "@set"
    },
    "issn" : {
      "@id" : "http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/issn",
      "@container" : "@set"
    },
    "lccn" : {
      "@id" : "http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/lccn",
      "@container" : "@set"
    },
    "oclcnum" : {
      "@id" : "http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/oclcnum",
      "@container" : "@set"
    },
    "shortTitle" : {
      "@id" : "http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/shortTitle",
      "@container" : "@set"
    },
    "translator" : {
      "@type" : "@id",
      "@id" : "http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/translator",
      "@container" : "@set"
    },
    "volume" : {
      "@id" : "http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/volume",
      "@container" : "@set"
    },
    "Article" : {
      "@type" : "@id",
      "@id" : "http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/Article",
      "@container" : "@set"
    },
    "Book" : {
      "@type" : "@id",
      "@id" : "http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/Book",
      "@container" : "@set"
    },
    "Collection" : {
      "@type" : "@id",
      "@id" : "http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/Collection",
      "@container" : "@set"
    },
    "Journal" : {
      "@type" : "@id",
      "@id" : "http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/Journal",
      "@container" : "@set"
    },
    "MultiVolumeBook" : {
      "@type" : "@id",
      "@id" : "http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/MultiVolumeBook",
      "@container" : "@set"
    },
    "Newspaper" : {
      "@type" : "@id",
      "@id" : "http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/Newspaper",
      "@container" : "@set"
    },
    "Periodical" : {
      "@type" : "@id",
      "@id" : "http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/Periodical",
      "@container" : "@set"
    },
    "Proceedings" : {
      "@type" : "@id",
      "@id" : "http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/Proceedings",
      "@container" : "@set"
    },
    "ReferenceSource" : {
      "@type" : "@id",
      "@id" : "http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/ReferenceSource",
      "@container" : "@set"
    },
    "Report" : {
      "@type" : "@id",
      "@id" : "http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/Report",
      "@container" : "@set"
    },
    "Series" : {
      "@type" : "@id",
      "@id" : "http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/Series",
      "@container" : "@set"
    },
    "Thesis" : {
      "@type" : "@id",
      "@id" : "http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/Thesis",
      "@container" : "@set"
    },

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I started an overview at https://github.com/hbz/lobid-resources/wiki/Changes-in-API-2.0#replace-bibo-properties-and-classes. Bibframe seems to be good to cover the properties. Regarding the types, I will think of a re-modeling together with the "medium" information. Related to hbz/lobid#266 and #115.

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It might make sense to use Bibframe 2.0 where possible. To investigate further I will make Bibframe-based versions of the examples from #79.

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Here are some thoughts I had around switching to Bibframe 2.0 as base vocabulary for lobid:

1. We should settle on a base vocabulary before the API is officially launched.
2. Bibo property/class URIs actually dereference to http://bibliographic-ontology.org/bibo/bibo.php where the ontology as RDF/XML is found. This is not ideal, especially the file extension but at least people can get to the ontology.
3. I represent hbz/lobid in a group that actually proposes recommendations for publishing bibliographic data using bibo (amongst others).
4. Bibframe 2.0 isn't a good candidate yet to switch to. There are neither tools nor good examples for Bibframe 2.0 published and won't be until the beginning of 2017.

However, for now, I will proceed and finally work on the examples I talked about four weeks ago.

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I tried different variants on going through all properties and types to see what vocabulary options we have. The best way seems to be to comment the context file as it contains all classes and properties used (but not the medium values, will also have to check this.) I did this in an hjson file, see https://gist.github.com/acka47/74f24ec7a23a152f30575d64fb23fa44. I would like to put this somewhere in this repo. Where is the best place? Shall I just put it in the root directory? What do you think, @dr0i?

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As we don't want to replace bibo anymore and my evaluation is going in a more general direction, this has become a duplicate of #5 . Closing this one.