Dictionaries in LexBib

Initially being ment for LOD-ification of publication metadata, LexBib ontology is now being further developed, so that conceptual-lexical resources (LCR) such as dictionaries can be represented, linked to other LCR through a defined set of properties, and linked to the bibliographical items or other types of distribution that embody them.

We follow the three-level entity hierarchy for the representation of artistic or creative endavour proposed in the FRBR ontology, widely used in Libraries, which we map to the two-level hierarchy for the representation of LCR metadata proposed in Metashare. These hierarchy levels, expressed as RDF classes, are the following: