This document describes a vocabulary for describing biographical information about people, both living and dead. It has been designed to be compatible with both RDF and non-RDF XML formats such as FOAF, RSS 1.0 and RSS 2.0. It contains terms useful for finding out more about people and their backgrounds and has some cross-over into genealogical information.

Preferred namespace URI: http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/

Preferred namespace prefix: bio

Contributors: Ian Davis and David Galbraith

Rights statement: Copyright © 2002-2004 Ian Davis and David Galbraith

Properties and Classes

Birth A birth event.
Date The date of an event.
Death A death event.
Event An event associated with a person.
Key words A comma delimited list of key words that describe this person.
Marriage A marriage event.
One-line bio A one-line biography of the person.
Place The place of an event.

Examples

Other Information

Type: owl:Ontology

Date: 2005-04-01

Identifier: http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/bio-vocab-20040305

Version of: http://purl.org/vocab/bio/

Replaces: bio:bio-vocab-20030728

Change log: http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/bio-changes-20040305.html

dct:hasFormat: http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/bio-vocab-20040305.html and http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/bio-vocab-20040305.rdf