The Bibliographic Ontology (BIBO) is an

ontology In metaphysics, ontology is the philosophical study of being, as well as related concepts such as existence, becoming, and reality. Ontology addresses questions like how entities are grouped into categories and which of these entities exi ...

for the Semantic Web to describe bibliographic things like books or magazines. It is written in RDF and can be used as a citation ontology, as a

document classification Document classification or document categorization is a problem in library science, information science and computer science. The task is to assign a document to one or more classes or categories. This may be done "manually" (or "intellectually") ...

ontology, or simply as a way to describe any kind of document in RDF. It has been inspired by many existing document description metadata formats, and can be used as a common ground for converting other bibliographic data sources. Th
''Chronicling America'' website
at the

Library of Congress The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the ''de facto'' national library of the United States. It is the oldest federal cultural institution in the country. The library ...

uses BIBO to model newspaper pages and issues in the Linked Data views.

External links

Bibliographic Ontology Specification
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References

{{Reflist Semantic Web Ontology_(information_science)