Terms and Definitions of the Genre Ontology
1. Introduction
The CWRC Genre Ontology was developed by the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory to identify genres associated with various forms of cultural production, particularly literary production.
This human-readable version of the ontology accompanies the introduction to the ontology (see Introduction).
2. Genre Ontological Structures
Beyond the formalism of The OWL 2 Web Ontology Language, the CWRC ontology follows the following design rules and styles: The contents of rdfs:labels tags are always in lowercase, with the following exceptions:
- Labels for religions, political affiliations and groups of people derived from a proper name will begin with an uppercase letter.
- Whenever referencing a geographical location, use the most precise item within the database.
- Definitions in French, English (and other serendipitously available languages) are never word-for-word translations, and are definitions in their own right.
3. Classes
The ontology includes several embedded taxonomies for enumerating the categories associated with certain classes (e.g., political affiliation, religion, occupation). Where possible, the taxonomies are SKOS-based, or a combined OWL and SKOS approach.