Documents
Information on skeletal remains can be drawn from published references, web resources or analytic reports. Personal communication, log books and excavation reports are potential resources for learning about the formation of skeletal collections. The modelling of information on these types of documents is based on the way they are addressed in VIVO (cf. Documents in VIVO).
The following classes for various types of documents are available:
bibo:Book
bibo:EditedBook
bibo:Proceedings
bibo:ReferenceSource (e.g. dictionaries or encyclopedias)
bibo:BookSection
bibo:Chapter
bibo:Issue
obo:OBI_0000159 ('Journal Article')
vivo:EditorialArticle
vivo:Review
fabio:Erratum
bibo:Thesis
vivo:ConferencePaper (published or not)
vivo:ConferencePoster
bibo:Slideshow
bibo:Slide
bibo:Report (published or not)
vivo:CaseStudy (in medical contexts)
vivo:NewsRelease
bibo:Standard
obo:Protocol
bibo:Manual
bibo:Manuscript
vivo:Speech
vivo:WorkingPaper
vivo:ResearchProposal
bibo:PersonalCommunicationDocument
bibo:Letter
fabio:Comment
bibo:LegalDocument
bibo:LegalCaseDocument
bibo:Brief
bibo:Decision
bibo:Legislation
bibo:Bill
bibo:Statute
bibo:Patent
vivo:Abstract (if not occurring as part of some other document)
vivo:Translation
:Transcription
bibo:Excerpt
bibo:Quote
bibo:Note
bibo:AudioDocument
bibo:AudioVisualDocument
bibo:Film
vivo:Video
vivo:Catalog
vivo:Database
vivo:Dataset
Document meta data contain a number of relations with other entities, like authors, editors or publishers. Confer to Documents in VIVO to get an overview of these direct connections. Here, some contexts are discussed where documents contain certain kinds of information on things that are not immediately connected to the documents themselves.
If an entity is dealt with in a textual document, this fact is expressed with obo:mentions and its inverse property :isMentioned, respectively.
The representation of entities in visual media is expressed with :depicts and its inverse property :isDepicted, respectively. The property can also be used for audiovisual media (audio and film/video), although such documents are not expected to frequently document skeletal collections and research.
For instances of the class foaf:Agent or its subclasses, there is a special pair of properties to link them with instances of the class obo:IAO_0000030 ('Information Content Entity') or its subclasses (including bibo:Document): vivo:features and vivo:featuredIn. These can be used to link persons, groups and organisations to documents where these entities appear.
vivo:[featuredIn and its inverse property should be used to extend information about the instance; e.g. by information that is stored in some work of reference or on a dedicated web portal. For other relations, or if in doubt, :isMentioned and :isDepicted or their inverse properties should be used.
An informal way of linking documents to other entities is provided by research references (:ResearchReference). This is explained in the section on research notes.
