Humanities & Culture

Cultural heritage, art, archives, media, music and language.

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Vocabulary D46

BARTOCBasic Register of Thesauri, Ontologies & Classifications

The Basic Register of Thesauri, Ontologies & Classifications (BARTOC) is a database of Knowledge Organization Systems and KOS related registries. The main goal of BARTOC is to list as many Knowledge Organization Systems as possible at one place in order to achieve greater visibility, highlight their features, make them searchable and comparable, and foster knowledge sharing. BARTOC includes any kind of KOS from any subject area, in any language, any publication format, and any form of accessibility.

FAIR 19/48 · 0 adopters
Ontology D44

ITOIntelligence Task Ontology

The Intelligence Task Ontology (ITO) provides a comprehensive map of machine intelligence tasks, as well as broader human intelligence or hybrid human/machine intelligence tasks.

Humanities & Culture+1 domain v1.01
OWL FAIR 34/48 · 0 adopters
Ontology D40

ORDAResearch Access Ontology

DPV terms are referenced in the OWL serialisation namespace (https://w3id.org/dpv/owl#), matching the owl:imports of https://w3id.org/dpv/2.3/owl#; the local dpv: declarations carry labels and editorial comments only, and the class hierarchy comes from that import rather than being restated here. An ontology modelling DSA Article 40 vetted researcher access to platform data for systemic risk research. Distinguishes the Art. 40(4) DSC-mediated non-public data process from the Art. 40(12) direct public data process.

OWL FAIR 30/48 · 0 adopters
Ontology D40

SICONSICON — An Ontology Design Pattern to model visual representations on three-dimensional cultural heritage objects

SICON models where visual elements sit in relation to one another within an iconographic programme, rather than what those elements depict. It is built on two aspects. First, the material stratum of a mural (sicon:PaintedDecoration) is kept apart from the visual composition it bears (sicon:ConceptualVisualRepresentation), so that configurational assertions remain available for murals attested only through written or drawn sources.

OWL FAIR 30/48 · 0 adopters
Ontology D40

TRAJECTOTrajecto Ontology

Trajecto is a modular ontology for semantic trajectories: GPS-derived movement of people, the points of interest they interact with, the patterns, purposes and contexts of that movement, and the user profiles learned from it. The core module defines the moving person, entities of interest and interactions, and reuses the datAcron trajectory model (Trajectory, TrajectoryPart, RawPosition, MovingObject) and DUL. It imports the other eleven modules and the purpose concept scheme, and is the entry point to the whole ontology.

OWL FAIR 30/48 · 0 adopters
Ontology E31

NIS2Onto-ops

NIS2Onto-ops is an operational ontology that extends NIS2Onto with the concepts needed to monitor assets, track security events, and record cybersecurity evidence in the context of NIS2 Article 21 risk-management obligations. It adds a compliance-governance layer that ties control judgements back to specific regulatory requirements, enabling automated, evidence-based classification of compliance status over time. Developed as part of the NIS2Graph project.

Humanities & Culture file of 2026-10-14
OWL FAIR 21/48 · 0 adopters
Ontology E31

Schulart Ontology

Schulart Ontology: German school type ontology. A ontology listed in Discovered via w3id.org.

Humanities & Culture file of 2026-01-26
OWL FAIR 26/48 · 0 adopters
Vocabulary E29

RDAFRRDA Frequency

Concepts for an interval at which a part, issue, or iteration of a diachronic work is issued.

Humanities & Culture file of 2026-10-08
RDFSKOS FAIR 19/48 · 0 adopters
Vocabulary E29

RDAMTRDA Media Type

Concepts for a categorization that reflects the general type of intermediation device required to view, play, run, or otherwise access the content of a manifestation.

Humanities & Culture file of 2026-10-08
RDFSKOS FAIR 19/48 · 0 adopters
Ontology E28

AEONAcademic Event Ontology

The academic event ontology, currently still in development and thus unstable, is an OBO compliant reference ontology for describing academic events such as conferences, workshops or seminars and their series. It is being developed as part of the [ConfIDent project](https://projects.tib.eu/confident/) to allow RDF representations of the academic events and series stored and curated in the [ConfIDent platform](https://www.confident-conference.org/index.php/main_page).

Humanities & Culture+1 domain 2023-02-22
OWL FAIR 32/48 · 0 adopters
Ontology E25

MARTIALISMartialis Investigative Ontology

Ontology for historically sourced martial arts lineages, ranks, and claims. SHACL (martialis.shacl.ttl, martialis-quality.shacl.ttl) is the constraint layer; this file describes the vocabulary.

OWL FAIR 30/48 · 0 adopters
Ontology E21

HEROHeritage Risk Assessment Ontology (HeRO)

## Description The _Heritage Risk Assessment Ontology_ (HeRO, https://w3id.org/sirius/ontology/hero) is a OWL 2 DL ontology for describing risk assessment activities in the cultural and environmental heritage domain in a machine-actionable format. It was developed by using a slightly modified version of the [Simplified Agile Methodology for Ontology Development (SAMOD)](http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3189769).

Humanities & Culture file of 2026-03-30
OWL FAIR 16/48 · 0 adopters
Ontology E20

BBO

BBO is a business process ontology. The core element of BBO is a formalization of a BPMN 2.0 fragment (namely Chapter 10 of BPMN 2.0 specification). BPMN 2.0 is state-of-the-art meta-model of business processes. Copyright © 2019 MELODI @ Toulouse Institute of Computer Science Research

OWL FAIR 25/48 · 0 adopters
Ontology E20

OPLaX (Ontology Pattern Language eXtended) ontology

This is the extended version of the OPLa ontology, which includes: (i) annotation properties from the original OPLa ontology (Pascal Hitzler et al., Towards a simple but useful Ontology Design Pattern Representation Language, WOP 2017 - https://github.com/cogan-shimizu/Extended-OPLa/blob/master/oplacore.owl); (ii) annotation properties from the Content Pattern annotation schema (http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/schemas/cpannotationschema.owl) used in the ODP Portal (http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/);

OWL FAIR 25/48 · 0 adopters
Vocabulary E17

ECLASEuropean Commission Library Thesaurus

Dating from 1978 when catalogues of the Central Library of the Commission of the European Communities (now the European Union) were computerised, ECLAS is a thesaurus created by the Central Library of the Commission of the European Communities for indexing the publications and documents acquired by the Central Library of the Commission. ECLAS was based on the Macrothesaurus of OECD and complemented by the ILO thesaurus. After creation of EUROVOC in 1984, convergence started in order to bring ECLAS in line with EUROVOC, but it was never complete.

OWL FAIR 22/48 · 0 adopters
Ontology Inactive E17

EXTVARTRANSExtension of the vartrans module of OntoLex-Lemon

This is an extension of the Variation and Translation (vartrans) module from OntoLex-Lemon. Two of the three categories from http://purl.org/net/translation-categories# have been soft-reused, and aligned to a new class: CorrespondenceType. This class has sub-classes for semantic and grammatical correspondences. For the former, this includes classification of correspondences where the target of the language pair is a lexical gap.

OWL FAIR 27/48 · 0 adopters
Ontology E16

DHFCDigital History Facts and Criticism

The DHFC ontology aims to capture the process of building historical knowledge. Its aim is to help to build reusable data in the context of historical digital humanities by providing insight as to how data was produced.

Humanities & Culture file of 2025-05-22
OWL FAIR 16/48 · 0 adopters
Ontology E16

Filmportal Relations Ontology (FPR)

This ontology defines properties for the description of relations between film work authority records or agent authority records on the one hand, and cultural heritage objects on the other. The ontology was developed for the description of relations used for filmportal.de but is not limited to this context.

Humanities & Culture 2020-09-29 (version 1.3)
OWL FAIR 21/48 · 0 adopters
Ontology E16

SEO Vocabulary

The SEO RDF vocabulary, described using W3C RDF Schema and the Web Ontology Language. The vocabulary builds on and refers to schema.org where appropriate.

OWL FAIR 21/48 · 0 adopters
Ontology E15

BIGOWL

BIGOWL (BIG data analytics OWL2 ontology) acts as a formal schema for representing and consolidating knowledge in Big Data analytics. Knowledge incorporation is, in turn, beneficial for efficient algorithmic performance by taking part in the operator’s design, parameter selection, and human interactive and decision-making strategies.

Humanities & Culture file of 2025-10-17
OWL FAIR 13/48 · 0 adopters
Ontology E15

OHDABOntology of the historical German-language nomenclature for offices and professions

Based on the classification of occupations (KldB) by the Federal Employment Agency and the Federal Statistical Office from 2010. This in turn is based on the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO) by the International Labor Office (ILO 2008). The KldB was revised and expanded in parts at the Historical Data Center in Halle, making it usable for the classification of historical occupations.

OWLRDF FAIR 20/48 · 0 adopters
Vocabulary E14

ELSSTEuropean Language Social Science Thesaurus

The European Language Social Science Thesaurus (ELSST) is a broad-based, multilingual thesaurus for the social sciences. It is owned and published by the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) and its national Service Providers. The thesaurus consists of over 3,000 concepts and covers the core social science disciplines: politics, sociology, economics, education, law, crime, demography, health, employment, information and communication technology and, increasingly, environmental science. [from homepage]

RDFSKOS FAIR 19/48 · 0 adopters
Ontology Inactive E14

MULTIModel of Multiple Viewpoints

A model for the representation of viewpoints specific to natural language, where each natural language is an embodiment of a culture. Using this model, the viewpoint of an ontology or ontology entity can be made explicit. This core version has been aligned to DOLCE+DnS Ultralite, an upper-level ontology suitable for modelling contexts.

OWL FAIR 23/48 · 0 adopters
Ontology Inactive E13

CTPCultural Thematic Path (CTP) Ontology

The creation of digital thematic paths represents an innovative approach to the enjoyment of online content, enabling users to navigate in a structured manner through information relevant to a specific topic and/or sector.

Humanities & Culture rdf:type owl:Annotation…
OWL FAIR 30/48 · 0 adopters
Vocabulary E12

ISO 639-1: Codes for the Representation of Names of Languages - Part 1: Two-letter codes for languages

<xhtml:div xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="schemeAbout" title="About the ISO639-1 List:" property="rdfs:comment"> <xhtml:p> ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family. ISO 639-1 provides two-character lowercase alphabetic strings that serve as identifiers of languages. The list contains approximately 180 discrete codes. All ISO 639-1 languages also have ISO 639-2 three-character code representations.

RDFSKOS FAIR 17/48 · 0 adopters

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Ontology C66

FaBiOThe FRBR-aligned Bibliographic Ontology

The FRBR-aligned Bibliographic Ontology (FaBiO) is an ontology for describing entities that are published or potentially publishable (e.g., journal articles, conference papers, books), and that contain or are referred to by bibliographic references.

Metadata, Provenance & Publishing+1 domain 2026-09-03
OWLRDF FAIR 40/48 · 0 adopters
Ontology C62

OWL-TimeTime Ontology in OWL

Owl-time is an owl-2 dl ontology of temporal concepts, for describing the temporal properties of resources in the world or described in web pages. the ontology provides a vocabulary for expressing facts about topological (ordering) relations among instants and intervals, together with information about durations, and about temporal position including date-time information.

OWLTurtle FAIR 34/48 · 0 adopters
Ontology C55

BIBOThe Bibliographic Ontology

The Bibliographic Ontology Specification provides main concepts and properties for describing citations and bibliographic references (i.e. quotes, books, articles, etc) on the Semantic Web.

Metadata, Provenance & Publishing+1 domain http://purl.org/ontolog…
OWLTurtle FAIR 29/48 · 0 adopters
Ontology D54

DataCiteDataCite Ontology

An ontology that enables the metadata properties of the DataCite Metadata Schema Specification (i.e., a list of metadata properties for the accurate and consistent identification of a resource for citation and retrieval purposes) to be described in RDF.

Metadata, Provenance & Publishing+1 domain 2026-07-23
OWLRDF FAIR 40/48 · 0 adopters
Ontology D54

AIOThe Artificial Intelligence Ontology

This ontology models classes and relationships describing deep learning networks, their component layers and activation functions, as well as potential biases.

Life Sciences+2 domains 2026-07-22
OWLOBOJSON FAIR 39/48 · 0 adopters
Ontology D45

DCATData Catalog

DCAT is an RDF vocabulary designed to facilitate interoperability between data catalogs published on the Web

Metadata, Provenance & Publishing+3 domains http://www.w3.org/ns/dc…
OWLTurtle FAIR 33/48 · 0 adopters
Vocabulary D41

AGROVOC

AGROVOC is a multilingual and controlled vocabulary designed to cover concepts and terminology under FAO's areas of interest. It is the largest Linked Open Data set about agriculture available for public use and its greatest impact is through providing the access and visibility of data across domains and languages.

Agriculture, Food & Plants+2 domains file of 2026-10-07
RDFSKOS FAIR 31/48 · 0 adopters
Vocabulary D41

FRBRFunctional Requirements for Bibliographic Records

The Essential FRBR in OWL2 DL Ontology (FRBR) is an expression in OWL 2 DL of the basic concepts and relations described in the IFLA report on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), also described in Ian Davis's RDF vocabulary. It is imported by FaBiO and BiRO.

RDF FAIR 27/48 · 0 adopters
Ontology D40

ODRLOpen Digital Rights Language Ontology

The ODRL Vocabulary and Expression defines a set of concepts and terms (the vocabulary) and encoding mechanism (the expression) for permissions and obligations statements describing digital content usage based on the ODRL Information Model.

OWLTurtle FAIR 27/48 · 0 adopters
Vocabulary E39

saref.citySAREF extension for Smart City

This ontology extends the SAREF ontology for the Smart City domain. This work has been developed in the context of the STF 534 (https://portal.etsi.org/STF/STFs/STFHomePages/STF534.aspx), which was established with the goal to create three SAREF extensions, one of them for the Smart City domain.

OWL FAIR 30/48 · 0 adopters
Ontology E38

ECGElectrocardiogram Ontology

The Electrocardiography (ECG) Ontology is a Driving Biological Project of the NCBO. The ECG Ontology will contain terms for describing electrocardiograms, their capture method(s) and their waveforms.

Health & Clinical+1 domain file of 2026-10-21
OWL FAIR 27/48 · 0 adopters
Ontology E38

GeoSPARQL

The OGC GeoSPARQL standard supports representing and querying geospatial data on the Semantic Web. GeoSPARQL defines a vocabulary for representing geospatial data in RDF, and it defines an extension to the SPARQL query language for processing geospatial data. In addition, GeoSPARQL is designed to accommodate systems based on qualitative spatial reasoning and systems based on quantitative spatial computations.

Earth & Environment+2 domains file of 2026-10-23
OWLTurtle FAIR 28/48 · 0 adopters
Vocabulary E35

FOAFFriend of a Friend

FOAF is a project devoted to linking people and information using the Web. Regardless of whether information is in people's heads, in physical or digital documents, or in the form of factual data, it can be linked. FOAF integrates three kinds of network: social networks of human collaboration, friendship and association; representational networks that describe a simplified view of a cartoon universe in factual terms, and information networks that use Web-based linking to share independently published descriptions of this inter-connected world.

Metadata, Provenance & Publishing+2 domains file of 2026-01-23
RDFJSON-LD FAIR 26/48 · 0 adopters
Vocabulary Inactive E35

schema.orgSchema.org

Schema.org is a collaborative, community activity with a mission to create, maintain, and promote schemas for structured data on the Internet, on web pages, in email messages, and beyond.

RDFTurtleJSON-LD FAIR 29/48 · 0 adopters
Ontology E34

MESHMedical Subject Headings

MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) is the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus. It consists of sets of terms naming descriptors in a hierarchical structure that permits searching at various levels of specificity. This thesaurus is used by NLM for indexing articles from biomedical journals, cataloguing of books, documents, etc.

Life Sciences+2 domains 2025
OWLOBOJSON FAIR 38/48 · 0 adopters
Ontology E33

SIGNORSignaling Network Open Resource

SIGNOR, the SIGnaling Network Open Resource, organizes and stores in a structured format signaling information published in the scientific literature.

Life Sciences+2 domains 2025-10-01
OWLOBOJSON FAIR 36/48 · 0 adopters

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