doco

is a Ontology.

DOCO (Document Components Ontology) is an OWL ontology for describing the structural and rhetorical components of documents. It is part of the SPAR (Semantic Publishing and Referencing) Ontologies suite and provides a vocabulary for semantic annotation of document structure.

Domains

literature

Infores ID

Unknown

FAIRsharing ID

Unknown

Product Summary

Contacts

SPAR (Semantic Publishing and Referencing) Ontologies

URL: http://www.sparontologies.net/

Products

From this Resource

ID	Name	URL	Category	Format	Description
doco.owl	DOCO Ontology (OWL)	2015-07-03_doco-1_3.owl (65.8 KB)	OntologyProduct	owl	DOCO ontology in OWL/RDF format

From other Resources

ID	Name	URL	Category	Format	Description
openbiodiv.ontology.ttl	OpenBioDiv-O	openbiodiv-ontology-latest.ttl (8.0 KB)	OntologyProduct	ttl	OpenBioDiv-O, the OpenBiodiv Ontology

Details

Document Components Ontology (DOCO)

DOCO is an OWL ontology for describing the structural and rhetorical components of documents, enabling machine-readable representation of document structure including pages, sections, paragraphs, and other textual elements.

Overview

The Document Components Ontology (DOCO) is part of the SPAR (Semantic Publishing and Referencing) Ontologies suite and provides a vocabulary for semantic annotation of document structure and rhetorical components. It was described in the paper “The Document Components Ontology (DOCO): Ontology and Use Cases” (Peroni et al., 2015) and has become important in academic publishing, digital humanities, and knowledge graph applications where structured document metadata is essential.

Key Features

Describes document structure (parts, sections, paragraphs, pages)
Defines rhetorical and discourse elements (abstract, introduction, conclusions)
Enables semantic annotation of document components
OWL-based ontology for integration with other semantic web technologies
Part of the larger SPAR ontologies ecosystem for scholarly communication

Use Cases

Academic publishing and scholarly communication
Document structure preservation in knowledge graphs
Semantic annotation of academic literature
Text mining and natural language processing workflows
Digital humanities and document digitization projects