To accompany today’s publication in D-Lib Magazine of the article The Five Stars of Online Journal Articles – a framework for article evaluation highlighted in the previous post, I have today also published The Five Stars Ontology, a simple ontology written in OWL 2 DL that forms part of SPAR, a suite of Semantic Publishing and Referencing Ontologies. It is intended for use by publishers and others wishing to encode Five Stars ratings, such as those exemplified in the D-Lib article, in machine-readable form, so they can accompany other machine-readable metadata for the article. To exemplify this, the following RDF graph, shown in turtle notation, gives the Five Stars ratings for the D-Lib article itself:
<http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/january2012-shotton> fivestars:hasPeerReviewRating “3”^^xsd:nonNegativeInteger ; fivestars:peerReviewRatingComment “Post-publication responsive peer review of the preprint.” ; fivestars:hasOpenAccessRating “4”^^xsd:nonNegativeInteger ; fivestars:openAccessRatingComment “Gold/libre open access without author fee!” ; fivestars:hasEnhancedContentRating “1”^^xsd:nonNegativeInteger ; fivestars:enhancedContentRatingComment “Plentiful Web links in text and to all references. No additional semantic enhancement of text.” ; fivestars:hasAvailableDatasetsRating “0”^^xsd:nonNegativeInteger ; fivestars:availableDatasetsRatingComment “Not applicable.” ; fivestars:hasMachine-readableMetadataRating “1”^^xsd:nonNegativeInteger ; fivestars:machine-readableMetadataRatingComment “Structural markup in HTML only.” ; fivestars:hasOverallFiveStarsRating “9”^^xsd:nonNegativeInteger ; fivestars:overallFiveStarsRatingComment “The nature of this article, being a position paper rather than a research paper with primary research data, has influenced the overall rating obtained.” .
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davidshotton (January 16, 2012). Five Stars Ontology. OpenCitations blog. Retrieved February 11, 2025 from https://doi.org/10.58079/sjcf