DoCO, the Document Components Ontology
type: Ontology
version IRI: http://purl.org/spar/doco/2015-07-03
imports: deo
imports: po
creator: David Shotton
creator: Silvio Peroni
date: 2015-07-03
description: DoCO, the Document Components Ontology, provides a structured vocabulary written in OWL 2 DL of document components, both structural (e.g. block, inline, paragraph, section, chapter) and rhetorical (e.g. introduction, discussion, acknowledgements, reference list, figure, appendix), enabling these components, and documents composed of them, to be described in RDF. It imports the Discourse Elements Ontology (http://purl.org/spar/deo) and the Document Structural Patterns Ontology (http://purl.org/spar/po), and uses seven rhetorical block elements abstracted from the SALT Rhetorical Ontology and the Ontology of Rhetorical Blocks (ORB).
rights: This work is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
comment: The Document Components Ontology (DoCO) in an ontology that provides a structured vocabulary written of document components, both structural (e.g., block, inline, paragraph, section, chapter) and rhetorical (e.g., introduction, discussion, acknowledgements, reference list, figure, appendix). **URL:** http://purl.org/spar/doco **Creators**: [David Shotton](http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5506-523X), [Silvio Peroni](http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0530-4305) **License:** [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode) **Website:** http://www.sparontologies.net/ontologies/doco **Cite as:** Constantin, A., Peroni, S., Pettifer, S., Shotton, D., Vitali, F. (2016). The Document Components Ontology (DoCO). In Semantic Web, 7 (2): 167-181. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/SW-150177
comment: This ontology is available at http://purl.org/spar/doco, and uses the namespace prefix doco.
prior version: 2014-05-14 doco-1 2.owl
version info: 1.3

abstract
type: Class
comment: A brief summary of a book, a research article, thesis, review, conference proceeding or any in-depth analysis of a particular subject or discipline, the purpose of which is to help the reader quickly ascertain the publication's purpose.

chapter title
type: Class
subclass of: title
disjoint with: section title
comment: The title of a chapter.

figure
type: Class
subclass of: DiscourseElement
comment: A communication object comprising one or more graphics, drawings, images, or other visual representations..

list
type: Class
subclass of: DiscourseElement
comment: An enumeration of items.

paragraph
type: Class
subclass of: DiscourseElement
comment: A self-contained unit of discourse that deals with a particular point or idea. Paragraphs contains one or more sentences. The start of a paragraph is indicated by beginning on a new line, which may be indented or separated by a small vertical space by the preceding paragraph.

section title
type: Class
subclass of: title
comment: The title of a section.

title
type: Class
subclass of: DiscourseElement
comment: A word, phrase or sentence that precedes and indicates the subject of a document or a document component - e.g., a book, a report, a news article, a chapter, a section or a table.