Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory Linked Open Data

This site provides access to the ontologies developed by the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory documented in English with partial French translation, a growing set of Linked Open Data data generated by CWRC accessible via download and queryable through a SPARQL endpoint, and guidance on how to run SPARQL queries.

A parallel dataset using the CIDOC-CRM ontology is being produced as part of the Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship. If you are looking to use some of our terms for linked data and prefer a SKOS vocabulary to an OWL ontology, many of them are available in the LINCS vocabularies.

SPARQL Graph Name Prefix Description Version Status Size
http://sparql.cwrc.ca/ontologies/cwrc The CWRC Ontology cwrc The CWRC Ontology is the ontology of the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory. 0.99.88 Testing 22723
http://sparql.cwrc.ca/ontologies/genre The CWRC Genre Ontology genre The CWRC Genre Ontology is the ontology used by the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory to assign Genres to different types of cultural objects, particularly but not exclusively written ones. 0.7 Testing 3524
http://sparql.cwrc.ca/ontologies/ii The CWRC Illness and Injury Ontology ii The CWRC Illness and Injury Ontology is an ontology developed and used by the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory. 1.1 Testing 945