Gen---A Vocabulary for Linked Genealogical Data
type: Ontology
date: 2012-01-26
abstract: A simple RDF vocabulary containing terms to facilitate the linking of genealogical data.
creator: Josh Hansen
rights: Copyright © 2012 FamilySearch
issued: 2012-01-26
preferred namespace prefix: gen

Person
type: Class
comment: A person.
term status: stable
subclass of: Agent

Event
type: Class
comment: An arbitrary classification of a space/time region, by a cognitive agent. An event may have actively participating agents, passive factors, products, and a location in space/time.

Place
type: Class
comment: A geolocated position
subclass of: SpatialThing
term status: testing

Time
type: Class
comment: A moment in time or a span of time
subclass of: TemporalEntity
term status: testing

Family
type: Class
comment: Though it is preferred to represent families by describing the relationships between its members (parent-child, husband-wife, etc.) this class can be used to represent a group of people who are considered to be a family unit.
subclass of: Group
term status: testing

familyMember
type: Property
comment: Indicates a member of a Family
sub property of: member
domain: Family
range: Person
term status: testing

parent
type: Property
comment: A parent in a family.
domain: Family
range: Person
sub property of: familyMember

mother
type: Property
comment: A mother of a family.
domain: Family
range: Person
sub property of: parent

father
type: Property
comment: A father of a family.
domain: Family
range: Person
sub property of: parent

stepParent
type: Property
comment: A step-parent of a family.
domain: Family
range: Person
sub property of: parent

stepMother
type: Property
comment: A step-mother of a family.
domain: Family
range: Person
sub property of: stepParent

stepFather
type: Property
comment: A step-father of a family.
domain: Family
range: Person
sub property of: stepParent

child
type: Property
comment: A child in a family.
domain: Family
range: Person
sub property of: familyMember

Family Tree
type: Class
comment: This container class should be populated with individual people, families, or other records that constitute a single 'family tree'. It is intended to help users in management of their genealogical data.
term status: testing

Event
type: Class
comment: An event is an occurrence that brings about a change in the state of affairs for one or more people and/or other agents. Events are assumed to occur over a period of time and may not have precise start and end points.

Individual Event
type: Class
comment: A type of event that is principally about a single person, group or organization. Other agents may be involved but the event is most significant for the principal agent.
subclass of: Event
subclass of: Restriction
  cardinality: 1
  on property: principal

Group Event
type: Class
comment: A type of event that is principally about one or more agents and their partnership. Other agents may be involved but the event is most significant for the partner agent.
subclass of: Event
subclass of: Restriction
  min cardinality: 2
  on property: partner

Birth
type: Class
comment: The event of a person entering into life.
subclass of: Individual Event

Baptism
type: Class
comment: The ceremonial event held to admit a person to membership of a Christian church.
subclass of: Individual Event

Marriage
type: Class
comment: The event of creating uniting the participants into a new family unit, sometimes accompanied by a formal wedding ceremony. This is intended to cover a broad range of marriages including those given formal legal standing, common-law, or by convention. It is not restricted to marriages of two people of the opposite gender, but also includes polygamous and same-sex unions.
subclass of: Group Event

Divorce
type: Class
comment: The event of legally dissolving a marriage.
subclass of: Group Event

Death
type: Class
comment: The event of a person's life ending.
subclass of: Individual Event

Burial
type: Class
comment: The event of interring the remains of a person's body into the ground.
subclass of: Individual Event

lifeEvent
type: Property
comment: The lifeEvent property is a slight variation on bio:event in which the domain is foaf:Person rather than foaf:Agent, since genealogy is about people.
sub property of: event
domain: Person
range: Event
inverse of: participant

birth
type: Property
comment: Specifies a person's birth event.
domain: Person
range: Birth
sub property of: lifeEvent
sub property of: event
inverse of: newborn

death
type: Property
comment: Specifies a person's death event.
domain: Person
range: Death
sub property of: lifeEvent
sub property of: death

participant
type: Property
comment: Adapts bio:agent by having a range of foaf:Person rather than foaf:Agent.
domain: Event
range: Person
sub property of: agent
inverse of: lifeEvent

Name
type: Class
comment: A personal name. Names are a class of their own to facilitate associating multiple names with the same individual, and to allow different types of names or ways of representing them.
term status: testing

name
type: Property
comment: A person's name.
domain: Person
range: Name
term status: testing

FOAF Name
type: Class
comment: A name class aiming for maximum compatibility with FOAF. Individuals in this class are intended to be described using foaf's name properties, namely foaf:name, foaf:givenName, and foaf:familyName.
subclass of: Name
term status: testing

name
type: Property
type: DatatypeProperty
comment: A name for some thing.
sub property of: label
domain: Thing
range: Literal

Given name
type: Property
type: DatatypeProperty
comment: The given name of some person.

familyName
type: Property
type: DatatypeProperty
comment: The family name of some person.
domain: Person
range: Literal

Source
type: Property
comment: A source justifying some assertion or claim of fact. The range is deliberately left as general as possible (owl:Thing) because of the unsettled state of bibliographic vocabularies. My recommendation is to use bibo:Document and its associated vocabulary, though frbr:Work seems reasonable, too. Surely there are many other options---hopefully a clear standard emerges in the future.
domain: Assertion
range: Thing
term status: unstable

Monumental Inscription
type: Class
comment: The general class of monumental inscriptions, defined by Wikipedia as 'an inscription, typically carved in stone, on a grave marker, cenotaph, memorial plaque, church monument or other memorial.'
subclass of: Document
term status: testing

Grave Inscription
type: Class
comment: A grave inscription, such as on a tomb or headstone.
subclass of: Monumental Inscription
term status: testing

Microform
type: Class
comment: The general class of microform media, defined by Wikipedia as 'any forms, either films or paper, containing microreproductions of documents for transmission, storage, reading, and printing.'
subclass of: Document
term status: testing

Microfilm
type: Class
comment: A microfilm reel
subclass of: Microform
term status: testing

Microfiche
type: Class
comment: 'A microfiche is a flat film 105 x 148 mm in size, that is ISO A6.' (Wikipedia:Microform)
subclass of: Microform
term status: testing

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