PRO, the Publishing Roles Ontology

An abstract class defining any kind of agents, such as a person, a group, an organization or a software agent.

An abstract class defining any kinds of publishing work.

A role an agent may have with respect to the publishing process. Individual members of this class are used to specify particular roles.

A role an agent may have. Individual members of this class or its sub-classes are used to specify particular roles.

A particular situation that describe a role an agent may have, that can be restricted to a particular time interval.

Two (starting and ending) points in time that define a particular period of time.

A time interval during which a role is held or a contribution is made by an agent.

A property relating an agent to a role that the agent holds. This is done via the indirection: foaf:Agent pro:holdsRoleInTime [ a pro:RoleInTime ; pro:withRole pro:Role ] . The ontology permits one to specify the time period over which a role is held, and the other contextual entities to which that agent's role relates.

A property relating a document to the role for which that document provides the context (e.g. relating a document to the role of author or peer-reviewer of that document).

A property relating an organization to the role for which that organization provides the context (e.g. relating an institution to the role of member held by a person).

A property relating a person to the role for which that person provides the context (e.g. relating a graduate student to the role of supervisor held by a faculty member).

A property relating an entity to the role for which that entity provides the context.

A property relating a role in time that an agent holds, or a contribution situation that an agent makes, to that agent.

The property relating the definition of a specific role to the situation of an agent holding that role.

A property relating a time-indexed situation to an entity representing the context for that situation.

A property relating a time-indexed situation describing a publishing role to a document that represents the context for that situation (e.g. relating the role of editor or peer-reviewer to the document being edited or peer-reviewed).

A property relating a time-indexed situation to an organization that represents the context for that situation (e.g. relating the role of member to the institution of which that person is a member).

A property relating a time-indexed situation to a person who represents the context for that situation (e.g. relating the role of an supervisor with respect to the graduate student being supervised).

An object property connecting an agent's role in time to a definition of the type of role held by this agent, specified as an instance of the class pro:Role or of one of its sub-classes.

The role of a person who manages, undertakes and supervises the work of an archive. [This term is typically used with respect to a document archive, whereas the term data curator is used with respect to a data archive.]

The role a person has of authorship of some material (for example a document).

A person who finds work for professional authors, manages their contracts, and works to advance their careers, charging their clients as fees for their services a percentage of the money made from the authors' writings.

The role of an author who writes biographies.

The role of an author who writes blog posts.

The role of an editor who actively commissions authors to write books to be published by the publishing house for which the commissioning editor works.

The role an agent has of compiling a number of items into a compilation or collection.

The role an agent has of contribution of some material (for example an article to a magazine).

The role of an editor who undertakes alterations to the text of a document submitted for publication to improve the formatting, style and accuracy of text, or to bring the text into the house style of the publisher (e.g. Americanization of British spelling), without intentionally altering the substance or meaning of the text.

The role of owning the copyright to a publication, usually held by the author or by the publishing house that publishes the author's work.

The role of an author who writes evaluations and criticisms of, for example, plays or other works of art.

The role of a senior editor of a publication who deputizes for the Editor-in-Chief.

The role of a person who distributes or disseminates publications or other resources.

The role of a person who selects and prepares for publication material created and submitted by authors, having oversight of its content, format and presentation.

The role of the person who has final responsibility for the editorial operations and policies for a particular publication.

The role of an editor who has executive responsibility for the production of particular publication, usually acting under the authority of the Editor-in-Chief.

The role of a professional writer who assists an aspiring author lacking authorship skills to write a book or article for publication, for example by helping the author to create grammatically correct and lucid prose, or who writes the book on behalf of the named author, without himself/herself claiming authorship.

The role of someone who is a guest editor, for example for a special themed issue of a journal.

The role of an agent that illustrates a document.

The role of an author who writes newspaper or magazine news reports or articles.

The role of a person who manages, undertakes and supervises the work of a library.

The role of an editor who has management responsibility for the production of particular publication, usually acting under the authority of the Executive Editor and the Editor-in-Chief.

The role of an academic peer in evaluating a manuscript submitted by an author for publication as a journal article on behalf of the journal editor, or a conference paper on behalf of the conference programme committee, and in deciding whether it is suitable for acceptance, usually subject to revisions suggested by the peer-reviewer.

The role of an agent involved in printing documents, either a company providing printing services or an individual engaged in the process of printing documents.

The role of someone who acts as a producer.

The role of an editor who takes responsibility for the passage of a document through the various stages of the publication workflow from the submitted manuscript to the final publication, including responsibility for scheduling and budget.

The role of a person who reads the proofs of documents to detect any errors prior to final publication.

The role of a person or an organization that published material, or of a publisher's employee who has responsibility for such publications.

The role of a person who reads publications.

The role of a person who subjects a publication to a written review and critical analysis of its content, scope and quality.

The role of the person who has senior responsibility for the editorial operations and policies for a particular publication, usually acting under the authority of the Editor-in-Chief.

The role of the person who has editorial responsibility for publication series, for example a book series.

The role of an agent that translates a document into another language.

A property relating an organization to the role for which that organization provides the context (e.g. relating an institution to the role of member held by a person).