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Ontology Catalog for Heritage Custodian Ontology

This document catalogs all ontologies used in the GLAM Heritage Custodian project.

Last Updated: 2026-02-08

Core Domain Ontologies

Heritage & Cultural Heritage

File Ontology Version Source Namespace
CIDOC_CRM_v7.1.3.rdf CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model 7.1.3 https://cidoc-crm.org/ crm:
CRMgeo_v1_2.rdfs CRMgeo (Geospatial Extension) 1.2 https://cidoc-crm.org/ crmgeo:
RiC-O_1-1.rdf Records in Contexts Ontology 1.1 https://www.ica.org/standards/RiC/ontology rico:
RiC-O_1-0-2.rdf Records in Contexts Ontology (legacy) 1.0.2 https://www.ica.org/standards/RiC/ontology rico:
edm.owl Europeana Data Model 5.2.8 http://www.europeana.eu/schemas/edm/ edm:
bibframe.rdf BIBFRAME (Library Bibliographic) 2.x https://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe.html bf:
premis3.owl PREMIS (Preservation Metadata) 3.0 http://www.loc.gov/premis/rdf/v3/ premis:

Persons & Organizations

File Ontology Version Source Namespace
pico.ttl PiCo (Persons in Context) 2023-09-21 https://personsincontext.org/ pico:
pnv.ttl Person Name Vocabulary 2021 https://w3id.org/pnv pnv:
foaf.ttl FOAF (Friend of a Friend) 0.1 http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/ foaf:
org.rdf W3C Organization Ontology 2014 https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-org/ org:
core-public-organisation-ap.ttl CPOV (Core Public Organisation) 1.1 https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/semic-support-centre/solution/cpov-application-profile cpov:
core-public-organisation-ap.jsonld CPOV (JSON-LD format) 1.1 https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/semic-support-centre/solution/cpov-application-profile cpov:
regorg.ttl Registered Organization Vocabulary 1.0 https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-regorg/ regorg:
tooiont.ttl TOOI (Dutch Government Ontology) 2023 https://identifier.overheid.nl/tooi/ tooi:

Legal Entities & Business

File Ontology Version Source Namespace
gleif_base.ttl GLEIF Base Ontology 1.0 https://www.gleif.org/ontology/ gleif-base:
gleif_l1.ttl GLEIF Level 1 (LEI Data) 1.0 https://www.gleif.org/ontology/ gleif-L1:
gleif_l2.ttl GLEIF Level 2 (Relationships) 1.0 https://www.gleif.org/ontology/ gleif-L2:
gleif_legal_form.ttl GLEIF Legal Form 1.0 https://www.gleif.org/ontology/ gleif-elf:
gleif_ra.ttl GLEIF Registration Authority 1.0 https://www.gleif.org/ontology/ gleif-ra:
ebg-ontology.ttl euBusinessGraph Ontology 1.0 https://data.businessgraph.io/ontology ebg:
fibo.rdf FIBO (Financial Industry) 2024 https://spec.edmcouncil.org/fibo/ fibo-fnd:

Geographic & Location Ontologies

File Ontology Version Source Namespace
geonames_ontology.rdf GeoNames Ontology 3.3 https://www.geonames.org/ontology/ gn:
locn.ttl ISA Core Location Vocabulary 1.0 https://www.w3.org/ns/locn locn:
legacy_locn.ttl ISA Core Location (legacy) 1.0 http://www.w3.org/ns/locn locn:
geo.ttl GeoSPARQL 1.1 https://www.ogc.org/standard/geosparql/ geo:
wgs84_pos.rdf W3C WGS84 Geo Positioning 2009 https://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/ wgs84_pos:
lcc-cr.rdf LCC Country Representation 1.2 https://www.omg.org/spec/LCC/ lcc-cr:
lcc-3166-1.rdf LCC ISO 3166-1 Country Codes 1.2 https://www.omg.org/spec/LCC/ lcc-3166-1:
lcc-3166-2.rdf LCC ISO 3166-2 Subdivisions 1.2 https://www.omg.org/spec/LCC/ lcc-3166-2:

Language Ontologies

File Ontology Version Source Namespace
lcc-lr.rdf LCC Language Representation 1.2 https://www.omg.org/spec/LCC/ lcc-lr:
lcc-639-1.rdf LCC ISO 639-1 Language Codes 1.2 https://www.omg.org/spec/LCC/ lcc-639-1:

Sensor & IoT Ontologies

File Ontology Version Source Namespace
sosa.ttl SOSA (Sensor, Observation, Sample, Actuator) 1.1 https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-ssn/ sosa:
ssn.ttl SSN (Semantic Sensor Network) 1.1 https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-ssn/ ssn:
Brick.ttl Brick Schema (Building IoT) 1.3 https://brickschema.org/ brick:

Foundational Ontologies

Semantic Web Core

File Ontology Version Source Namespace
skos.rdf SKOS (Simple Knowledge Org System) 2009 https://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference/ skos:
dublin_core_elements.rdf Dublin Core Elements 1.1 https://www.dublincore.org/specifications/dublin-core/ dc:
dcterms.rdf DCMI Metadata Terms (RDF) 2020 https://www.dublincore.org/specifications/dublin-core/dcmi-terms/dublin_core_terms.rdf dcterms:
dcterms.ttl DCMI Metadata Terms (TTL) 2020 https://www.dublincore.org/specifications/dublin-core/dcmi-terms/ dcterms:
dctype.rdf DCMI Type Vocabulary 2012 https://www.dublincore.org/specifications/dublin-core/dcmi-type-vocabulary/ dcmitype:
oa.ttl Open Annotation Data Model 2013 https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-vocab/ oa:
odrl.ttl ODRL (Open Digital Rights Language) 2.2 https://www.w3.org/TR/odrl-model/ odrl:
dcat3.ttl DCAT (Data Catalog Vocabulary) 3.0 https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat-3/ dcat:
schemaorg.owl Schema.org 2024 https://schema.org/ schema:
vcard.rdf vCard Ontology 4.0 https://www.w3.org/TR/vcard-rdf/ vcard:
vcard.ttl vCard Ontology (TTL) 4.0 https://www.w3.org/TR/vcard-rdf/ vcard:
dqv.ttl Data Quality Vocabulary 2016-12 https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dqv/ dqv:
adms.ttl Asset Description Metadata Schema 2015-07 https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-adms/ adms:

Provenance & Temporal

File Ontology Version Source Namespace
prov.ttl PROV-O (Provenance Ontology) 2013 https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/ prov:
prov-o.rdf PROV-O (RDF format) 2013 https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/ prov:
prov-o.ttl PROV-O (TTL format) 2013 https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/ prov:
pav.rdf PAV (Provenance, Authoring, Versioning) 2.3 http://purl.org/pav/ pav:
time.rdf OWL-Time 2017 https://www.w3.org/TR/owl-time/ time:
time.ttl OWL-Time (TTL) 2017 https://www.w3.org/TR/owl-time/ time:

Object Reuse & Exchange

File Ontology Version Source Namespace
ore.rdf OAI-ORE (Object Reuse & Exchange) 1.0 http://www.openarchives.org/ore/terms/ ore:

Domain-Specific Extensions

Railway & Transport

File Ontology Version Source Namespace
era_ontology.ttl ERA Railway Ontology 3.0 https://data-interop.era.europa.eu/ era:

Biomedical

File Ontology Version Source Namespace
omrse.owl OMRSE (Ontology for MRS Elements) 2024 http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/omrse.owl omrse:

Software & Projects

File Ontology Version Source Namespace
doap.rdf DOAP (Description of a Project) 2023 https://github.com/ewilderj/doap doap:

DBpedia

File Ontology Version Source Namespace
dbpedia_ontology.owl DBpedia Ontology 2024 https://dbpedia.org/ontology/ dbo:
dbpedia_classes_sample.ttl DBpedia Classes (sample) 2024 https://dbpedia.org/ dbo:
dbpedia_heritage_classes.ttl DBpedia Heritage Classes 2024 https://dbpedia.org/ dbo:
dbpedia_wikidata_mappings.ttl DBpedia-Wikidata Mappings 2024 https://dbpedia.org/ -

W3C Linked Data Platform

File Ontology Version Source Namespace
hydra_cg.jsonld Hydra Core Vocabulary 1.0 https://www.hydra-cg.com/spec/latest/core/ hydra:

Natural History & Biodiversity

File Ontology Version Source Namespace
dwc.rdf Darwin Core 2023-09 http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/ dwc:

Smart Buildings & Real Estate

File Ontology Version Source Namespace
rec.ttl RealEstateCore 4.0 https://github.com/RealEstateCore/rec rec:

Licensing & Rights

File Ontology Version Source Namespace
spdx.ttl SPDX (Software Package Data Exchange) 3.0.1 https://spdx.org/ spdx3:
spdx2.owl SPDX (v2.2.2, used by prefix spdx:) 2.2.2 https://spdx.org/ spdx:

Commerce & Vocabularies

File Ontology Version Source Namespace
goodrelations.owl GoodRelations 1.0 http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1 gr:

Lexicography

File Ontology Version Source Namespace
ontolex-frac.ttl OntoLex-FRaC (Frequency, Attestation, Corpus) 2024 https://www.w3.org/2019/09/lexicog/ frac:

Other

File Ontology Version Source Namespace
oasis.owl OASIS Ontology 2023 (proprietary) oasis:
wod_thing.ttl Web of Data Thing 2024 - wod:

Supplementary Files

File Description
2023-09-28-elf-code-list-v1.5.csv GLEIF Entity Legal Form codes (CSV)
dbpedia_glam_mappings_index.md Index of DBpedia GLAM mappings

Usage in LinkML Schema

The Heritage Custodian Ontology (schemas/20251121/linkml/01_custodian_name_modular.yaml) references these ontologies for:

  1. PiCo (pico:) - Core observation/reconstruction pattern for persons and entities
  2. PROV-O (prov:) - Provenance tracking, activity chains
  3. SOSA/SSN (sosa:, ssn:) - IoT devices, sensors, beacons
  4. GeoNames (gn:) - Settlement and geographic feature references
  5. LCC (lcc-cr:, lcc-3166-1:, lcc-3166-2:) - Country and subdivision codes
  6. GLEIF (gleif-base:, gleif-L1:) - Legal entity identification
  7. SKOS (skos:) - Concept schemes, labels, hierarchies
  8. Schema.org (schema:) - Web semantics, social media profiles
  9. CIDOC-CRM (crm:) - Cultural heritage event modeling
  10. EDM (edm:) - Cultural heritage object aggregation
  11. ORE (ore:) - Object aggregation patterns

Download Commands

# SOSA/SSN (W3C)
curl -L -o sosa.ttl "http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/" -H "Accept: text/turtle"
curl -L -o ssn.ttl "http://www.w3.org/ns/ssn/" -H "Accept: text/turtle"

# GeoNames
curl -L -o geonames_ontology.rdf "https://www.geonames.org/ontology/ontology_v3.3.rdf"

# LCC (OMG)
curl -L -o lcc-cr.rdf "https://www.omg.org/spec/LCC/Countries/CountryRepresentation/"
curl -L -o lcc-3166-1.rdf "https://www.omg.org/spec/LCC/Countries/ISO3166-1-CountryCodes/"
curl -L -o lcc-lr.rdf "https://www.omg.org/spec/LCC/Languages/LanguageRepresentation/"
curl -L -o lcc-639-1.rdf "https://www.omg.org/spec/LCC/Languages/ISO639-1-LanguageCodes/"

# EDM (Europeana - via Wayback Machine due to Cloudflare)
curl -L -o edm.owl "https://web.archive.org/web/2023/http://www.europeana.eu/schemas/edm/rdf/edm.owl"

# OAI-ORE
curl -L -o ore.rdf "http://www.openarchives.org/ore/terms/" -H "Accept: application/rdf+xml"

# WGS84 Geo
curl -L -o wgs84_pos.rdf "https://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos" -H "Accept: application/rdf+xml"

Notes

  • EDM required Wayback Machine due to Cloudflare protection on europeana.eu
  • PiCo version 2023-09-21 is the current release
  • LCC provides ISO 3166 and ISO 639 codes as RDF - essential for country/language modeling
  • SOSA/SSN is a W3C/OGC joint standard for sensor observations
  • GeoNames ontology v3.3 (2022-01-30) includes feature codes for settlements
  • DWC (Darwin Core) downloaded from TDWG with Accept: application/rdf+xml
  • SPDX has two versions: spdx2.owl uses http://spdx.org/rdf/terms# namespace (used by schema prefix spdx:); spdx.ttl uses the v3.x namespace
  • REC (RealEstateCore) v4 uses SHACL shapes, not OWL classes
  • PNV (Person Name Vocabulary) for structured person name components
  • Brick schema for building IoT systems (environmental monitoring sensors)

See Also

  • LinkML Schema: schemas/20251121/linkml/01_custodian_name_modular.yaml
  • AGENTS.md: Project documentation for AI agents
  • Base ontology usage: data/ontology/ directory