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The Citation Typing Ontology (CiTO) is an ontology that enables characterization of the nature or type of citations, both factually and rhetorically.
URL: http://purl.org/spar/cito
Creators: David Shotton, Silvio Peroni
Contributors: Paolo Ciccarese, Tim Clark
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Website: http://www.sparontologies.net/ontologies/cito
Cite as: Peroni, S., Shotton, D. (2012). FaBiO and CiTO: ontologies for describing bibliographic resources and citations. In Journal of Web Semantics, 17: 33-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.websem.2012.08.001. Open Access at: http://speroni.web.cs.unibo.it/publications/peroni-2012-fabio-cito-ontologies.pdf
CiTO, the Citation Typing Ontology, is an ontology written in OWL 2 DL to enable characterization of the nature or type of citations, both factually and rhetorically, and to permit these descriptions to be published on the Web.
The citations characterized may be either direct and explicit (as in the reference list of a journal article), indirect (e.g. a citation to a more recent paper by the same research group on the same topic), or implicit (e.g. as in artistic quotations or parodies, or in cases of plagiarism).
CiTO contains the object property cito:cites and its sub-properties, and its inverse property cito:isCitedBy, from the original Citation Typing Ontology, CiTO v1.6. Upon the creation of version 2.0 of CiTO, a number of new sub-properties of cito:cites were added, and the inverse properties of all the sub-properties of cito:cites were created, all of which are sub-properties of cito:isCitedBy. The ontology has also been integrated with the SWAN Discourse Relationships Ontology by making cito:cites a sub-property of http://purl.org/swan/2.0/discourse-relationships/refersTo.
Restrictions of domain and range present in the previous version of CiTO were removed from the object properties when creating CiTO v 2.0, permitting its independent use in other contexts, in addition to conventional bibliographic citations.
So that they can be used independently, other entities that were previously included in CiTO v1.6 have now been made components of other SPAR ontologies: FaBiO, the FRBR-aligned Bibliographic Ontology; C4O, the Citation Counting and Context Characterization Ontology; and PSO, the Publication Status Ontology.
The addition of two new properties:cito:usesConclusionsFrom and its inverse cito:providesConclusionsFor on 09Dec2011 led to a version number increment from v2.0 to v2.1.
The addition of two additional properties, cito:compiles and cito:isCompiledBy, previously in the deprecated CiTO4Data ontology, on 03 July 2012 led to a version increment from v2.1 to v2.2.
Subsequent expansions include:
in versions 2.3 and 2.4 the addition of the object properties cito:citesAsPotentialSolution, cito:citesAsRecommendedReading, cito:repliesTo, cito:retracts, cito:speculates on, and their inverse properties;
in v2.5 the addition of cito:CitationAct, cito:hasCitationEvent, cito:hasCitedEntity and cito:hasCitingEntity;
in v 2.6: renaming cito:hasCitationEvent to become cito:hasCitationCharacterization; improving definitions of cito:CitationAct, cito:hasCitationCharacterization, cito:hasCitedEntity and cito:hasCitingEntity; revising the definition of cito:isCompiledBy to correct it and bring it into line with the DataCite Metadata Kernel v2.2 definition; changing the definition of cito:sharesAuthorsWith from 'An object property indicating that the citing entity has at least one author in common with the cited entity.' to 'An object property between two entities indicating that they have at least one author in common.' so that it can be used when one entity does not actually cite the other; adding the object properties cito:hasRelatedEntity, cito:sharesFundingAgencyWith and cito:sharesAuthorInstitutionWith; and adding the text 'An object property indicating that . . .' at the beginning of the textual definition (rdfs:comment) for each CiTO object property.
in v 2.6.1:
Removed text 'An object property indicating that . . .' added in v 2.6 at the beginning of the textual definition (rdfs:comment) for each CiTO object property, so that each definition is just a direct statement of the relationship.
Removed the property cito:hasRelatedEntity (in favour of using dcterms:relation).
Renamed cito:hasReply to become cito:hasReplyFrom.
Improved the textual definitions of cito:derides and its inverse property.
in v 2.6.2: Improved definitions of of cito:CitationAct, cito:hasCitationCharacterization, cito:hasCitedEntity and cito:hasCitingEntity.
in v 2.6.3: Added examples for each citation type (i.e., all the subproperties of cito:cites).
in v 2.6.4: Added alignment with schema:citation.
in v 2.7.0: Added new property cito:linksTo, and corrected some property URL.
in v 2.7.1 Corrected some typos in property comments.
in v 2.7.2 The name of the class cito:CitationAct has been changed to cito:Citation, and its definition has been modified. The property cito:hasCitationTimeSpan has been added.
in v 2.7.3 Added the class cito:SelfCitation, i.e. citation in which the citing and the cited entities have at least one author in common.
in v 2.8 Renamed the class cito:SelfCitation in cito:AuthorSelfCitation. Created a new class cito:SelfCitation with a more general definition (citation in which the citing and the cited entities have something significant in common with one another), which now includes five subclasses: cito:AuthorSelfCitation, cito:JournalSelfCitation, cito:FunderSelfCitation, cito:AffiliationSelfCitation, cito:AuthorNetworkSelfCitation. The latter class is also accompanied by the new data property cito:hasCoAuthorCitationLevel, which specifies the minimal distance that one of the authors of a citing entity has with regards to one of the authors of a cited entity according to their co-author network. Added the object properties cito:sharesPublicationVenueWith and its subproperty cito:sharesJournalWith. Added the data property cito:hasCitationCreationDate, and changed the domain of cito:hasCitationTimeSpan with xsd:duration.
in v 2.8.1 Renamed the property cito:hasCoAuthorCitationLevel in cito:hasCoAuthorshipCitationLevel.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/AffilationSelfCitation
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/AuthorNetworkSelfCitation
A citation in which at least one author of the citing entity has direct or indirect co-authorship links with one of the authors of the cited entity.
Derived from the article 'A Small World of Citations? The Influence of Collaboration Networks on Citation Practices' by Matthew L. Wallace, Vincent Larivière and Yves Gingras, published in PLOS One (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0033339).
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/AuthorSelfCitation
A citation in which the citing and the cited entities have at least one author in common.
In particular, like the ancestor class cito:Citation, cito:AuthorSelfCitation and its accompanying object properties cito:hasCitingEntity, cito:hasCitedEntity and cito:hasCitationCharacterization can be employed to reify direct citation statements made using the CiTO citation object property cito:cites or one of its sub-properties, accompanied by an additional statement using cito:sharesAuthorWith for linking the citing paper and the cited paper.
For example, the following cito:AuthorSelfCitation resource
:thisCitation a cito:AuthorSelfCitation ;
cito:hasCitingEntity :paperA ;
cito:hasCitationCharacterization cito:extends ;
cito:hasCitedEntity :paperB .
can be alternatively described as follows
:paperA cito:extends :paperB .
:paperA cito:sharesAuthorWith :paperB .
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/Citation
A citation is a conceptual directional link from a citing entity to a cited entity, created by a human performative act of making a citation, typically instantiated by the inclusion of a bibliographic reference (biro:BibliographicReference) in the reference list of the citing entity, or by the inclusion within the citing entity of a link, in the form of an HTTP Uniform Resource Locator (URL), to a resource on the World Wide Web.
The time span of a citation, i.e. the interval between the publication year of the citing entity and the publication year of the cited entity, can be recorded using the data property cito:hasCitationTimeSpan.
The nature or type of a citation can be characterized by using CiTO object properties, e.g. http://purl.org/spar/cito/citesAsDataSource (definition: “The citing entity cites the cited entity as a source of data”).
This CiTO class cito:Citation and its accompanying object properties cito:hasCitingEntity, cito:hasCitedEntity and cito:hasCitationCharacterization can be employed to reify direct citation statements made using the CiTO citation object property cito:cites or one of its sub-properties.
For example, the following RDF statement
:paperA cito:extends :paperB .
can be alternatively described as follows
:thisCitation a cito:Citation ;
cito:hasCitingEntity :paperA ;
cito:hasCitationCharacterization cito:extends ;
cito:hasCitedEntity :paperB .
This usage involved OWL2 punning, whereby a CiTO object property, such as the aforementioned cito:extends, is used as the object of the OWL assertion.
:thisCitation cito:hasCitationCharacterization cito:extends .
Using such OWL2 punning (described at http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-owl2-new-features-20090611/#F12:_Punning), the CiTO object property is considered as a proper named individual of the class owl:Thing.
Such reification of citation acts can be very useful, since it permits one to combine these CiTO properties with other vocabularies, or to handle situations in which none of the citation characterizations available in CiTO are applicable.
Such situations can be resolved by the creation of a user-defined citation characterization, for example by using the Open Annotation Data Model, as explained at http://semanticpublishing.wordpress.com/2013/07/03/extending-cito-for-open-annotations/.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/DistantCitation
A citation in which the citing and the cited entities have nothing significant in common with one another (for example authors, journal, institutional affiliation, or funding agency) over and beyond their subject matter.
Derived from the article 'A Small World of Citations? The Influence of Collaboration Networks on Citation Practices' by Matthew L. Wallace, Vincent Larivière and Yves Gingras, published in PLOS One (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0033339).
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/FunderSelfCitation
A citation in which the works reported in the citing and the cited entities were funded by the same funding agency.
In particular, like the ancestor class cito:Citation, cito:FunderSelfCitation and its accompanying object properties cito:hasCitingEntity, cito:hasCitedEntity and cito:hasCitationCharacterization can be employed to reify direct citation statements made using the CiTO citation object property cito:cites or one of its sub-properties, accompanied by an additional statement using cito:sharesFundingAgencyWith for linking the citing paper and the cited paper.
For example, the following cito:FundingSelfCitation resource
:thisCitation a cito:FundingSelfCitation ;
cito:hasCitingEntity :paperA ;
cito:hasCitationCharacterization cito:extends ;
cito:hasCitedEntity :paperB .
can be alternatively described as follows
:paperA cito:extends :paperB .
:paperA cito:sharesFundingAgencyWith :paperB .
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/JournalCartelCitation
A citation from one journal to another journal which forms one of a very large number of citations from the citing journal to recent articles in the cited journal, possibly undertaken as part of a citation cartel for the purpose of gaming the impact factor of the cited journal.
Derived from the blog post 'What do we know about journal citation cartels? A call for information' by Philippe Mongeon, Ludo Waltman and Sarah de Rijcke (https://www.cwts.nl/blog?article=n-q2w2b4).
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/JournalSelfCitation
A citation in which the citing and the cited entities are published in the same journal.
In particular, like the ancestor class cito:Citation, cito:JournalSelfCitation and its accompanying object properties cito:hasCitingEntity, cito:hasCitedEntity and cito:hasCitationCharacterization can be employed to reify direct citation statements made using the CiTO citation object property cito:cites or one of its sub-properties, accompanied by an additional statement using cito:sharesJournalWith for linking the citing paper and the cited paper.
For example, the following cito:JournalSelfCitation resource
:thisCitation a cito:JournalSelfCitation ;
cito:hasCitingEntity :paperA ;
cito:hasCitationCharacterization cito:extends ;
cito:hasCitedEntity :paperB .
can be alternatively described as follows
:paperA cito:extends :paperB .
:paperA cito:sharesJournalWith :paperB .
Derived from the blog post 'Journal self-citations are increasingly biased toward impact factor years' by Ludo Waltman and Caspar Chorus (https://www.cwts.nl/blog?article=n-q2x264).
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/SelfCitation
A citation in which the citing and the cited entities have something significant in common with one another, over and beyond their subject matter, for example authors, journal, institutional affiliation, or funding agency.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/agreesWith
The citing entity agrees with statements, ideas or conclusions presented in the cited entity.
Example: We share Galileo's opinion: the Earth moves [X].
IRI: http://schema.org/citation
This property is defined in schema.org and has been added here to align schema.org with CiTO. The object property schema:citation expresses similar semantics to cito:cites except for the explicit definition of domain and range classes, that are schema:CreativeWork according to schema.org. For that reason, it is here defined as a subproperty of cito:cites.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/cites
The citing entity cites the cited entity, either directly and explicitly (as in the reference list of a journal article), indirectly (e.g. by citing a more recent paper by the same group on the same topic), or implicitly (e.g. as in artistic quotations or parodies, or in cases of plagiarism).
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/citesAsAuthority
The citing entity cites the cited entity as one that provides an authoritative description or definition of the subject under discussion.
Example: Newton asserted that we are like dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants [X].
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/citesAsDataSource
The citing entity cites the cited entity as source of data.
Example: Italy has more than ten thousand kilometers of shoreline: see [X].
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/citesAsEvidence
The citing entity cites the cited entity as source of factual evidence for statements it contains.
Example: We found an unquestionable demonstration of our hypothesis in [X].
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/citesAsMetadataDocument
The citing entity cites the cited entity as being the container of metadata describing the citing entity.
Example: Basic bibliographic, entity and project metadata relating to this article, recorded in a structured machine-readable form, is available as an additional file [X] accompanying this paper.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/citesAsPotentialSolution
The citing entity cites the cited entity as providing or containing a possible solution to the issues being discussed.
Example: This risk could be avoided using the approach shown in [X].
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/citesAsRecommendedReading
The citing entity cites the cited entity as an item of recommended reading. This property can be used, for example, to describe references in a lecture reading list, where the cited references are relevant to the general topic of the lecture, but might not be individually cited within the text of the lecture. Similarly, it could be used to describe items in a 'Suggested further reading' list at the end of a book chapter.
Example: To our knowledge, [X] is the best source of exercises about UML, making it a valuable proposal for beginners.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/citesAsRelated
The citing entity cites the cited entity as one that is related.
Example: An analysis similar to what we proposed here is presented in [X].
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/citesAsSourceDocument
The citing entity cites the cited entity as being the entity from which the citing entity is derived, or about which the citing entity contains metadata.
Example: Several sections of this work are based on our literature review of the topic published as journal article [X].
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/citesForInformation
The citing entity cites the cited entity as a source of information on the subject under discussion.
Example: The grammar of Pascal was introduced in [X].
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/compiles
The citing entity is used to create or compile the cited entity.
Example: This book gathers interviews with academic researchers of several disciplines [X].
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/confirms
The citing entity confirms facts, ideas or statements presented in the cited entity.
Example: Our findings are similar to those published in [X].
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/containsAssertionFrom
The citing entity contains a statement of fact or a logical assertion (or a collection of such facts and/or assertions) originally present in the cited entity. This object property is designed to be used to relate a separate abstract, summary or nanopublication to the cited entity upon which it is based.
Example: We think that to stand on the top of giants [X] is a valuable principle to follow for our own research.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/corrects
The citing entity corrects statements, ideas or conclusions presented in the cited entity.
Example: The result published in [X] is partially wrong, the correct result is 42.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/credits
The citing entity acknowledges contributions made by the cited entity.
Example: Galileo was the first to observe Jupiter's satellites [X].
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/critiques
The citing entity critiques statements, ideas or conclusions presented in the cited entity.
Example: The ideas presented in [X] are badly substantantiated.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/derides
The citing entity express derision for the cited entity, or for ideas or conclusions contained within it.
Example: The ideas published in [X] are incredibly stupid.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/describes
The citing entity describes the cited entity.
Example: Galileo's book [X] is a dialog among three scientists about Copernicus' eliocentric theory.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/disagreesWith
The citing entity disagrees with statements, ideas or conclusions presented in the cited entity.
Example: We do not share Galileo's opinion [X]: the Earth does not move.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/discusses
The citing entity discusses statements, ideas or conclusions presented in the cited entity.
Example: We now examine if Galileo is right when he writes [X] that the Earth moves.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/disputes
The citing entity disputes statements, ideas or conclusions presented in the cited entity.
Example: We doubt that Galileo is right when he writes [X] that the Earth moves.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/documents
The citing entity documents information about the cited entity.
Example: Herein we report in detail the complete set of ontological rules defined in the Overlapping Ontology [X].
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/extends
The citing entity extends facts, ideas or understandings presented in the cited entity.
Example: We add to Galileo's findings concerning the Earth [X] that also the Moon moves.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/givesBackgroundTo
The cited entity provides background information for the citing entity.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/givesSupportTo
The cited entity provides intellectual or factual support for the citing entity.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/hasCitationCharacterization
A property that links a citation to its characterization made by using a CiTO citation characterization property such as cito:extends. This usage involved OWL2 punning, whenby a CiTO object property, such as the aforementioned cito:extends, is used as the object of an OWL assertion:
:thisCitation cito:hasCitationCharacterization cito:extends .
In such cases of OWL punning, the CiTO object properties are simultaneously considered both as normal object properties and also as proper named individuals of the class owl:Thing.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/hasCitedEntity
A property that relates a citation to the cited entity.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/hasCitingEntity
A property that relates a citation to the citing entity.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/hasReplyFrom
The cited entity evokes a reply from the citing entity.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/includesExcerptFrom
The citing entity includes one or more excerpts from the cited entity.
An excerpt is more general than a quotation. It is generally used to indicate a re-published extract from a book, instruction manual, film, radio programme, etc, that need not be what someone said. For example:
Oxford 01865 Oxshott 01372 Oxted 01883 Oxton 01578
is an excerpt from the UK Dialling Codes section of the Oxford Telephone Directory.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/includesQuotationFrom
The citing entity includes one or more quotations from the cited entity.
A quotation is a repetition of what someone has said, and is presented "within quotation marks", for example:
On June 4th 1940, Winston Churchill made a speech on the radio that has since become famous, that included the words: " . . . we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender . . ."
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/isAgreedWithBy
The cited entity contains statements, ideas or conclusions with which the citing entity agrees.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/isCitedAsAuthorityBy
The cited entity is cited as providing an authoritative description or definition of the subject under discussion in the citing entity.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/isCitedAsDataSourceBy
The cited entity is cited as a data source by the citing entity.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/isCitedAsEvidenceBy
The cited entity is cited for providing factual evidence to the citing entity.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/isCitedAsMetadataDocumentBy
The cited entity is cited as being the container of metadata relating to the citing entity.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/isCitedAsPontentialSolutionBy
The cited entity is cited as providing or containing a possible solution to the issues being discussed in the citing entity.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/isCitedAsRecommendedReadingBy
The cited entity is cited by the citing entity as an item of recommended reading. This property can be used, for example, to describe references in a lecture reading list, where the cited references are relevant to the general topic of the lecture, but might not be individually cited within the text of the lecture. Similarly, it could be used to describe items in a 'Suggested further reading' list at the end of a book chapter.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/isCitedAsRelatedBy
The cited entity is cited as being related to the citing entity.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/isCitedAsSourceDocumentBy
The cited entity is cited as being the entity from which the citing entity is derived, or about which the citing entity contains metadata.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/isCitedBy
The cited entity (the subject of the RDF triple) is cited by the citing entity (the object of the triple).
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/isCitedForInformationBy
The cited entity is cited as a source of information on the subject under discussion in the citing entity.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/isCompiledBy
The cited entity is the result of a compile or creation event using the citing entity.
Note: This property has been imported from the CiTO4Data ontology, usage of which has been deprecated.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/isConfirmedBy
The cited entity presents facts, ideas or statements that are confirmed by the citing entity.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/isCorrectedBy
The cited entity presents statements, ideas or conclusions that are corrected by the citing entity.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/isCreditedBy
The cited entity makes contributions that are acknowledged by the citing entity.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/isCritiquedBy
The cited entity presents statements, ideas or conclusions that are critiqued by the citing entity.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/isDeridedBy
The cited entity contains ideas or conclusions for which the citing entity express derision.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/isDescribedBy
The cited entity is described by the citing entity.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/isDisagreedWithBy
The cited entity presents statements, ideas or conclusions that are disagreed with by the citing entity.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/isDiscussedBy
The cited entity presents statements, ideas or conclusions that are discussed by the citing entity.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/isDisputedBy
The cited entity presents statements, ideas or conclusions that are disputed by the citing entity.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/isDocumentedBy
Information about the cited entity is documented by the citing entity.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/isExtendedBy
The cited entity presents facts, ideas or understandings that are extended by the citing entity.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/isLinkedToBy
The cited entity is the target for an HTTP Uniform Resource Locator (URL) link within the citing entity.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/isParodiedBy
The characteristic style or content of the cited entity is imitated by the citing entity for comic effect, usually without explicit citation.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/isPlagiarizedBy
The cited entity is plagiarized by the author of the citing entity, who includes within the citing entity textual or other elements from the cited entity without formal acknowledgement of their source. The cited entity is thus not explicitly cited from within the citing entity, according to the norms of scholarly practice, but is cited implicitly.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/isQualifiedBy
The cited entity presents statements, ideas or conclusions that are qualified or have conditions placed upon them by the citing entity.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/isRefutedBy
The cited entity presents statements, ideas or conclusions that are refuted by the citing entity.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/isRetractedBy
The cited entity is formally retracted by the citing entity.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/isReviewedBy
The cited entity presents statements, ideas or conclusions that are reviewed by the citing entity.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/isRidiculedBy
The cited entity or aspects of its contents are ridiculed by the citing entity.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/isSpeculatedOnBy
The cited entity is cited because the citing article contains speculations on its content or ideas.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/isSupportedBy
The cited entity receives intellectual or factual support from the citing entity.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/isUpdatedBy
The cited entity presents statements, ideas, hypotheses or understanding that are updated by the cited entity.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/likes
A property that permits you to express appreciation of or interest in something that is the object of the RDF triple, or to express that it is worth thinking about even if you do not agree with its content, enabling social media 'likes' statements to be encoded in RDF. Use of this property does NOT imply the existence of a formal citation of the entity that is 'liked'.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/linksTo
The citing entity provides a link, in the form of an HTTP Uniform Resource Locator (URL), to the cited entity.
Example: The BioSharing registry (https://biosharing.org) can be of use as it describes the standards in detail, including versions where applicable.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/obtainsBackgroundFrom
The citing entity obtains background information from the cited entity.
Example: There is a need for more observational studies and studies using narrative causation to describe the potential contribution of information in problem-solving and decision-making [X]; our work addresses these needs.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/obtainsSupportFrom
The citing entity obtains intellectual or factual support from the cited entity.
Example: Our ideas were also shared by Doe et al. [X].
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/parodies
The citing entity imitates the characteristic style or content of the cited entity for comic effect, usually without explicit citation.
Example: We act as giants on the shoulders of dwarfs [X]!
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/plagiarizes
A property indicating that the author of the citing entity plagiarizes the cited entity, by including textual or other elements from the cited entity without formal acknowledgement of their source. The citing entity thus contains no explicit citation of the cited entity, according to the norms of scholarly practice, but cites it implicitly.
Example: The conclusion of our dissertation can be summarised by the following motto, we created specifically for this purpose: we are like dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/providesAssertionFor
The cited entity contains and is the original source of a statement of fact or a logical assertion (or a collection of such facts and/or assertions) that is to be found in the citing entity. This inverse object property is designed to be used to relate a cited entity to a separate abstract, summary or nanopublication based upon it.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/providesConclusionsFor
The cited entity presents conclusions that are used in work described in the citing entity.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/providesDataFor
The cited entity presents data that are used in work described in the citing entity.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/providesExcerptFor
The cited entity contains information, usually of a textual nature, that is excerpted by (used as an excerpt within) the citing entity.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/providesMethodFor
The cited entity details a method that is used in work described by the citing entity.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/providesQuotationFor
The cited entity contains information, usually of a textual nature, that is quoted by (used as a quotation within) the citing entity.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/qualifies
The citing entity qualifies or places conditions or restrictions upon statements, ideas or conclusions presented in the cited entity.
Example: Galileo's masterpiece 'Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo' [X] is formally a dialog and substantially a scientific pamphlet.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/refutes
The citing entity refutes statements, ideas or conclusions presented in the cited entity.
Example: We do not think that all their arguments in favour of their own and against the other strategies are equally convincing [X].
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/repliesTo
The citing entity replies to statements, ideas or criticisms presented in the cited entity.
Example: We will not investigate the issues of the approach proposed in [X] here, but rather we introduce yet another alternative.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/retracts
The citing entity constitutes a formal retraction of the cited entity.
Example: We wrote that the Earth moves in [X]; we now retire such statement.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/reviews
The citing entity reviews statements, ideas or conclusions presented in the cited entity.
Example: This paper discusses Toulmin's methodology in modelling argumentation [X], focussing on highlighting advantages and drawbacks of the application of such a methodology in the Social Web.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/ridicules
The citing entity ridicules the cited entity or aspects of its contents.
Example: Galileo said that the Earth "moves" [X]; really? And where is it going?
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/sharesAuthorInstitutionWith
Each entity has at least one author that shares a common institutional affiliation with an author of the other entity.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/sharesAuthorWith
Each entity has at least one author in common with the other entity.
has characteristics: symmetric
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/sharesFundingAgencyWith
The two entities result from activities that have been funded by the same funding agency.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/sharesJournalWith
The citing and cited bibliographic resources are published in the same journal.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/sharesPublicationVenueWith
The citing and cited bibliographic resources are published in same publication venue.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/speculatesOn
The citing entity speculates on something within or related to the cited entity, without firm evidence.
Example: We believe that if Galileo believed that Earth goes around the Sun [X], he also should believe that Moon goes around Earth.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/supports
The citing entity provides intellectual or factual support for statements, ideas or conclusions presented in the cited entity.
Example: We support Galileo's statement [X], that Earth moves.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/updates
The citing entity updates statements, ideas, hypotheses or understanding presented in the cited entity.
Example: Earth moves, said Galileo [X]; in addition, we can say now it moves very fast.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/usesConclusionsFrom
The citing entity describes work that uses conclusions presented in the cited entity.
Example: Building upon Galileo's findings [X], we discovered that all the planets move.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/usesDataFrom
The citing entity describes work that uses data presented in the cited entity.
Example: Using the information collected from our recent study [X], we can estimate that there are tens of millions of HTML forms with potentially useful deep-web content.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/usesMethodIn
The citing entity describes work that uses a method detailed in the cited entity.
Example: We follow [X] in using design patterns for testing.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/hasCitationCreationDate
The date on which the citation was created. This has the same numerical value as the publication date of the citing bibliographic resource, but is a property of the citation itself. When combined with the citation time span, it permits that citation to be located in history.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/hasCitationTimeSpan
The temporal characteristic of a citation, namely the interval between the publication date of the cited entity and the publication date of the citing entity. Note that when one or both of the publication dates is given as just 'year', then the citation time span is rounded to the nearest year, and when one or both of the publication dates is given as just 'year and month', then the citation time span is rounded to the nearest month, with the inherent inaccuracies that such rounding involves.
IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/hasCoAuthorshipCitationLevel
This property specifies the minimal distance that one of the authors of the citing entity has with regards to one of the authors of the cited entity, according to their co-authorship network.
For instance, a citation has a co-authorship citation level equal to 1 if at least one author of the citing entity has previously published as co-author with one of the authors of the cited entity. Similarly, we say that a citation has a co-authorship citation level equal to 2 if at least one author of the citing entity has previously published as co-author with someone who him/herself has previously published as co-author with one of the authors of the cited entity. And so on.
has characteristics: functional
IRI: http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/contributor
IRI: http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/description
IRI: http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#priorVersion
This HTML document was obtained by processing the OWL ontology source code through LODE, Live OWL Documentation Environment, developed by Silvio Peroni.
A citation in which at least one author from each of the citing and the cited entities is affiliated with the same academic institution.
In particular, like the ancestor class cito:Citation, cito:AffiliationSelfCitation and its accompanying object properties cito:hasCitingEntity, cito:hasCitedEntity and cito:hasCitationCharacterization can be employed to reify direct citation statements made using the CiTO citation object property cito:cites or one of its sub-properties, accompanied by an additional statement using cito:sharesAuthorInstitutionWith for linking the citing paper and the cited paper.
For example, the following cito:AffiliationSelfCitation resource
can be alternatively described as follows