The Document Components Ontology (DoCO)

Abstract

Abstract. The availability in machine-readable form of descriptions of the structure of documents, as well as of the document discourse (e.g. the scientific discourse within scholarly articles), is crucial for facilitating semantic publishing and the overall comprehension of documents by both users and machines. In this paper we introduce DoCO, the Document Components Ontology, an OWL 2 DL ontology that provides a general-purpose structured vocabulary of document elements to describe both structural and rhetorical document components in RDF. In addition to giving a formal description of the ontology, this paper showcases its utility in practice in a variety of our own applications and other activities of the Semantic Publishing community that rely on DoCO to annotate and retrieve document components of scholarly articles.

Research Articles in Simplified HTML: a Web-first format for HTML-based scholarly articles

“…The development of scripts and applications to extract, for instance, RDF statements directly from the markup structure of the text is a sort of nightmare if different authors use HTML in different manners. For instance, what happens when trying to extract the rhetorical organisation of a scientific paper according to the Document Component Ontology (DoCO) (http://purl.org/spar/doco) (Constantin et al, 2016) …”

“…Another development of the RASH Framework concerns the automatic enrichment of RASH documents with RDFa annotations defining the actual structure of such documents in terms of the FRBR-aligned Bibliographic Ontology (FaBIO) (http://purl.org/spar/fabio) and the Document Component Ontology (DoCO) (http://purl.org/spar/doco) (Constantin et al, 2016). More in detail, we developed a Java application called SPAR Xtractor suite 9 .…”

Research Articles in Simplified HTML: a Web-first format for HTML-based scholarly articles

“…Of course, the hope is that the inherent advantages of an HTML-based format such as RASH will eventually persuade stakeholders to adopt the HTML version whenever it is possible, keeping the alternatives as fall-back options. (Constantin et al, 2016). More in detail, we developed a Java application called SPAR Xtractor suite…”

Research Articles in Simplified HTML: a Web-first format for HTML-based scholarly articles

“…72 (Constantin et al, 2016). More in detail, we developed a Java application called SPAR Xtractor suite 73 .…”