Abstract

The euBusinessGraph (ebg:) ontology represents companies, type/status/economic classification, addresses, identifiers, (and soon) directors and CEOs, dataset offerings. It uses schema:domain/rangeIncludes (which are polymorphic) to describe which properties are applicable to a class, rather than rdfs:domain/rainge (which are monomorphic) to prescribe what classes must be applied to each node using a property. We find that this enables more flexible reuse and combination of different ontologies. We reuse the following ontologies and nomenclatures, and extend them where appropriate with classes and properties: - W3C Org, W3C RegOrg (basic company data), - W3C Time (officer membership), - W3C Locn (addresses), - schema.org (domain/rangeIncludes and various properties) - DBpedia ontology (jurisdiction) - NGEO and Spatial (NUTS administrative divisions) - ADMS (identifiers), - FOAF, SIOC (blog posts), - RAMON, SKOS (NACE economic classifications and various nomenclatures), - VOID (dataset descriptions). This is only a reference. See more detail in the EBG Semantic Model document, which includes an informative description of classes and properties, gives examples and data provider rules, and provides more schema and instance diagrams.

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