Bibliographic Ontology

{{Short description|RDF description of books and magazines}}

The Bibliographic Ontology (BIBO) is an ontology for the Semantic Web to describe bibliographic things like books or magazines.{{cite web |url=http://bibliographic-ontology.org/specification |title=Bibliographic Ontology Specification |author=Bruce D'Arcus, Frédérick Giasson |date=4 November 2009 |accessdate=13 June 2010 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100630231856/http://bibliontology.com/specification |archive-date=30 June 2010 |url-status=dead }}BIBO and its website is maintained by Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Usage Board. {{cite web | title=BIBO (RDF) | website=DCMI | date=11 May 2016| url=https://www.dublincore.org/specifications/bibo/bibo/}} It is written in RDF and can be used as a citation ontology, as a document classification 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.

The [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ Chronicling America website] at the Library of Congress uses BIBO to model newspaper pages and issues in the Linked Data views.{{cite web |url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/api/ |title=About the Chronicling America API |accessdate=13 June 2010}}