Description

The Biflow-Toscana Bilingue ontology is structured with classes and properties that import and extend other formal ontologies already in existence, such as eFRBRoo, CIDOC CRM (Comité International pour la Documentation-Conceptual Reference Model), and Biblissima ontology. The Biflow ontology maps out two main units of analysis that are clearly distinct from one another: firstly, the text with its linguistic and literary aspects (including language, genre, authorship, etc.); secondly, the material and historical characteristics of the manuscripts in which the texts are presented. Consequently, the core of the ontology is based on four main classes: Work, Expression, Manuscript, and Person.