Ontology of Document Acts
Ontology: d-acts
- IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/iao/d-acts.owl
- OBO Foundry: No
- Download: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/iao/d-acts.owl
- Home: https://github.com/d-acts/d-acts
- Contact: mbrochhausen@gmail.com
- Description: An ontology based on a theory of document acts describing what people can do with documents
Annotations
- contributor: Matthew Diller, William R. Hogan, Sarah Bost, Cooper Stansbury, J. Neil Otte, S. Clint Dowland
- creator: Mathias Brochhausen, Amanda Hicks, Laura Slaughter, Mauricio B. Almeida
- description: The ontology is based on a theory of document acts proposed by Barry Smith and Reinach's theory of social acts and legal entities: Reinach, A. (1989), Sämtliche Werke. Texkritische Ausgabe, Edited by Karl Schuhmann and Barry Smith, München: Philosophia Verlag. Smith, B. (2008) “Searle and de Soto: The new ontology of the social world”, The Mystery of Capital and the Construction of Social Reality, B. Smith, D.M. Mark and I. Ehrlich, United States, Open Court., 35-52. Smith, B. (2012) "How to Do Things With Documents", Rivista di estetica, 50 (2/2012), LII: 179-198. However, there are some amendments from our side which are to be found in the documentation.
- title: document act ontology
- versionIRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/iao/d-acts/release/2025-08-27/d-acts.owl
- versionInfo: release version - 2025-08-27
- has ID range allocated to: IAO_0021000-IAO_0021999
- license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Number of Terms (including imported terms) (Detailed Statistics)
- Class (324)
- ObjectProperty (61)
- DatatypeProperty (4)
- AnnotationProperty (75)
- Instance (20)
Number of SPARQL queries:8
