The event of a person entering into life.
Birth
_:e a bio:Birth ; dc:date "1879-03-14" ; bio:principal <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Albert_Einstein> ; bio:parent <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Pauline_Koch> ; bio:parent <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Hermann_Einstein> ; bio:place <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Ulm> .
A comma delimited list of key words that describe a person.
Key Words
Declared that this is a datatype property
The event of a group or organization being disbanded.
Disbanding
An birth event associated with a person, group or organization.
Birth Event
Birth Events
A country or independent territory that is involved in an event.
State
States
The event of a person being deliberately killed as punishment.
Execution
The event of a person entering an occupational relationship with an employer.
Employment
A person that is present at and observes the occurrence of at least part of an event.
Spectator
Spectators
The event of a person exiting an occupational relationship with an employer after a qualifying time period. In many cultures retirement is expected and even required once the person reaches a particular age.
Retirement
The ceremonial event marking the beginning of a person's term of office as a leader.
Inauguration
The event of creating uniting the participants into a new family unit, sometimes accompanied by a formal wedding ceremony. This is intended to cover a broad range of marriages including those given formal legal standing, common-law, or by convention. It is not restricted to marriages of two people of the opposite gender, but also includes polygamous and same-sex unions.
Marriage
_:e a bio:Marriage ; dc:date "1903" ; bio:partner <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Albert_Einstein> ; bio:partner <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Mileva_Mari%C4%87> ; bio:place <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Bern> .
The marriage of Albert Einstein and Mileva Marić
Made equivalent to cyc:WeddingEvent_Generic
Types of event
The event of a person involuntarily giving up their office or position. Dismissal is often perceived to be the employee's fault and may be considered disgraceful.
Dismissal
The event of disposing of the remains of a person's body by fire.
Cremation
_:e a bio:Cremation ; dc:date "1955-04-18" ; bio:principal <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Albert_Einstein> ; bio:place <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Princeton,_New_Jersey> .
The employment position or public office involved in an event.
Position
Positions
The biological father of a person, also known as the genitor.
Father
Note that this is a strict definition of father that does not include non-biological relationships. The Relationship vocabulary may be more suitable for broader types of parent/child relation.
Made subproperty of rel:childOf on suggestion of Gautier Poupeau
An agent that is involved in an event as an employer.
Employer
Employers
An event that marks the end of an interval and/or relationship. The event changes of the state of affairs that held during the interval. For example a period of study may be concluded by a Graduation event.
Concluding Event
The ceremonial event of a person being invested with regal power to become a monarch.
Coronation
A person, group or organization that participates in a relationship for some time.
Participant
Participants
The event of a person being awarded educational diplomas or degrees.
Graduation
_:e a bio:Graduation ; dc:date "1905"^^xsd:gYear ; bio:principal <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Albert_Einstein> ; bio:organization <http://dbpedia.org/resource/University_of_Zurich> .
Albert Einstein receiving his Doctorate from the University of Zurich
A person, organization or group that plays a role in an event.
Agent
Agents
An event that starts immediately after this event.
Immediately Following Event
Immediately Following Events
A one-line biography of the person.
One-line bio
Based on information at Wikipedia and Hull University @prefix bio: <http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/> . @prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> . @prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> . _:henryviii a foaf:Person ; foaf:name "Henry VIII, King of England" ; bio:father _:henryvii ; bio:mother _:elizplantagenet ; bio:child _:child1, _:child2, _:child3, _:child4, _:child5, _:child6, _:child7, _:child8 ; bio:birth _:birth ; bio:death _:death ; bio:event _:burial, _:accession, _:coronation, _:marriage1 , _:marriage2, _:marriage3, _:marriage4, _:marriage5, _:marriage6 . _:henryvii a foaf:Person ; foaf:name "Henry VII Tudor, King of England" ; bio:child _:henryviii . _:elizplantagenet a foaf:Person ; foaf:name "Elizabeth of York" ; bio:child _:henryviii . _:birth a bio:Birth ; rdfs:label "The birth of Henry VIII to Henry VII and Elizabeth Plantagenet on 28 June 1491" ; bio:date "1491-06-28" ; bio:place <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Palace_of_Placentia> ; bio:parent _:henryvii, _:elizplantagenet ; bio:principal _:henryviii . _:death a bio:Death ; rdfs:label "The death of Henry VIII on 28 January 1547" ; bio:date "1547-01-28" ; bio:place <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Palace_of_Whitehall> ; bio:principal _:henryviii . _:accession a bio:Accession ; rdfs:label "The accession of Henry VIII to the throne of England on 21 April 1509" ; bio:date "1509-06-24" ; bio:principal _:henryviii ; bio:state <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Kingdom_of_England> ; bio:immediatelyPrecedingEvent [ a bio:Death ; rdfs:label "The death of Henry VII on 9 May 1509" ; bio:date "1509-05-09" ; bio:place <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Richmond_Palace> ; bio:principal _:henryvii ] . _:coronation a bio:Coronation ; rdfs:label "The coronation of Henry VIII as King of England on 24 June 1509" ; bio:date "1509-06-24" ; bio:place <http://dbpedia.org/page/Westminster_Abbey> ; bio:principal _:henryviii ; bio:precedingEvent _:accession . _:burial a bio:Burial ; rdfs:label "The burial of Henry VII at St.George's Chapel, Windsor Castle,England" ; bio:place <http://dbpedia.org/resource/St_George%E2%80%99s_Chapel%2C_Windsor> ; bio:principal _:henryviii ; bio:precedingEvent _:death . _:marriage1 a bio:Marriage ; rdfs:label "The marriage of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon" ; bio:date "1509-06-11" ; bio:place <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Palace_of_Placentia> ; bio:partner _:henryvii, _:catharagon . _:annulment1 a bio:Annulment ; rdfs:label "The annulment of the marriage between Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon" ; bio:date "1533-05-23" ; bio:partner _:henryvii, _:catharagon ; bio:officiator <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Thomas_Cranmer> . _:catharagon a foaf:Person ; foaf:name "Anne Boleyn" ; bio:child _:child1, _:child2, _:child3, _:child4, _:child5 ; bio:event _:marriage1, _:annulment1 . _:child1 a foaf:Person ; rdfs:label "Unnamed daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon" ; bio:event [ a bio:Birth ; bio:date "1510-01-31" ; bio:principal _:child1 ; bio:parent _:henryviii, _:catharagon ] ; bio:event [ a bio:Death ; bio:date "1510-02-02" ; bio:principal _:child1 ] . _:child2 a foaf:Person ; foaf:name "Henry" ; bio:event [ a bio:Birth ; bio:date "1511-01-01" ; bio:principal _:child2 ; bio:parent _:henryviii, _:catharagon ] ; bio:event [ a bio:Death ; bio:date "1511-02-22" ; bio:principal _:child2 ] . _:child3 a foaf:Person ; foaf:name "Henry" ; bio:event [ a bio:Birth ; bio:date "1514-12" ; bio:principal _:child3 ; bio:parent _:henryviii, _:catharagon ] ; bio:event [ a bio:Death ; bio:principal _:child3 ] . _:child4 a foaf:Person ; foaf:name "Mary" ; bio:event [ a bio:Birth ; bio:date "1516-02-18" ; bio:principal _:child4 ; bio:parent _:henryviii, _:catharagon ] ; bio:event [ a bio:Death ; bio:date "1558-11-17" ; bio:principal _:child4 ] . _:child5 a foaf:Person ; rdfs:label "Unnamed daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon" ; bio:event [ a bio:Birth ; bio:date "1518-11" ; bio:principal _:child5 ; bio:parent _:henryviii, _:catharagon ] ; bio:event [ a bio:Death ; bio:principal _:child5 ] . _:marriage2 a bio:Marriage ; rdfs:label "The marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn" ; bio:date "1533-01-25" ; bio:partner _:henryvii, _:anneboleyn ; bio:place <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Westminster_Abbey> . _:anneboleyn a foaf:Person ; foaf:name "Anne Boleyn" ; bio:child _:child6 ; bio:event _:marriage2, _:annulment2, _:anneboleyn-death . _:annulment2 a bio:Annulment ; rdfs:label "The annulment of the marriage between Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn" ; bio:date "1536-05-17" ; bio:partner _:henryvii, _:anneboleyn . _:anneboleyn-death a bio:Execution ; rdfs:label "The beheading of Anne Boleyn" ; bio:date "1536-05-19" ; bio:place <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Tower_of_London> ; bio:principal _:anneboleyn . _:child6 a foaf:Person ; foaf:name "Elizabeth" ; bio:event [ a bio:Birth ; bio:date "1533-09-07" ; bio:principal _:child6 ; bio:parent _:henryviii, _:anneboleyn ] ; bio:event [ a bio:Death ; bio:date "1603-03-24" ; bio:principal _:child6 ] . _:marriage3 a bio:Marriage ; bio:date "1536-05-20" ; bio:partner _:henryviii, _:janeseymour ; bio:place <http://dbpedia.org/resource/York_Place> . _:janeseymour a foaf:Person ; foaf:name "Jane Seymour" ; bio:event _:marriage3, _:janeseymour-death ; bio:child _:child7 . _:janeseymour-death a bio:Death ; rdfs:label "The death of Jane Seymour on 24 October 1537" ; bio:date "1537-10-24" ; bio:principal _:janeseymour ; bio:place <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Hampton_Court_Palace> . _:child7 a foaf:Person ; foaf:name "Edward" ; bio:event [ a bio:Birth ; bio:date "1537-10-12" ; bio:principal _:child7 ; bio:parent _:henryviii, _:janeseymour ; bio:place <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Hampton_Court_Palace> ] ; bio:event [ a bio:Accession ; bio:immediatelyPrecedingEvent _:death ] ; bio:event [ a bio:Death ; bio:date "1553-07-06" ; bio:principal _:child7 ; bio:place <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Palace_of_Placentia> ] . _:marriage4 a bio:Marriage ; bio:date "1540-01-06" ; bio:partner _:henryvii, _:annecleves ; bio:place <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Palace_of_Placentia> ; bio:officiator <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Thomas_Cranmer> . _:annulment3 a bio:Annulment ; rdfs:label "The annulment of the marriage between Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves" ; bio:date "1540-07-09" ; bio:partner _:henryviii, _:annecleves . _:annecleves a foaf:Person ; foaf:name "Anne of Cleves" ; bio:event _:marriage4, _:annulment3 . _:marriage5 a bio:Marriage ; bio:date "1540-07-28" ; bio:partner _:henryviii, _:cathhoward ; bio:place <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Oatlands_Palace> . _:cathhoward a foaf:Person ; foaf:name "Catherine Howard" ; bio:event _:marriage5, _:cathhoward-death . _:cathhoward-death a bio:Execution ; rdfs:label "The beheading of Catherine Howard" ; bio:date "1542-02-13" ; bio:place <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Tower_of_London> ; bio:principal _:cathhoward . _:marriage6 a bio:Marriage ; rdfs:label "The marriage between Henry VIII and Catherine Parr" ; bio:date "1543-07-12" ; bio:place <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Hampton_Court_Palace> ; bio:partner _:henryviii, _:cathparr . _:cathparr a foaf:Person ; foaf:name "Catherine Parr" ; bio:event _:marriage6 . _:elizblount a foaf:Person ; foaf:name "Elizabeth Blount" ; bio:child _:child8 . _:child8 a foaf:Person ; foaf:name "Henry FitzRoy" ; foaf:mother _:elizblount ; foaf:father _:henryviii ; bio:event [ a bio:Birth ; bio:principal _:child8 ; bio:date "1519-06-15" ; bio:parent _:henryviii, _:elizblount ; bio:place <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Blackmore> ] . _:marriage1-interval a bio:Interval ; rdfs:label "The period of time during which Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon were married" ; bio:initiatingEvent _:marriage1 ; bio:concludingEvent _:annulment1 . _:marriage2-interval a bio:Interval ; rdfs:label "The period of time during which Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn were married" ; bio:initiatingEvent _:marriage2 ; bio:concludingEvent _:annulment2 . _:marriage3-interval a bio:Interval ; rdfs:label "The period of time during which Henry VIII and Jane Seymour were married" ; bio:initiatingEvent _:marriage3 ; bio:concludingEvent _:janeseymour-death . _:marriage4-interval a bio:Interval ; rdfs:label "The period of time during which Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves were married" ; bio:initiatingEvent _:marriage4 ; bio:concludingEvent _:annulment3 . _:marriage5-interval a bio:Interval ; rdfs:label "The period of time during which Henry VIII and Catherine Howard were married" ; bio:initiatingEvent _:marriage5 ; bio:terminatingEvent _:cathhoward-death . _:marriage6-interval a bio:Interval ; rdfs:label "The period of time during which Henry VIII and Catherine Parr were married" ; bio:initiatingEvent _:marriage6 ; bio:terminatingEvent _:henryviii-death .
A Biography of Henry VIII, King of England
The event of creating of a legal parent/child relationship that does not exist biologically.
Adoption
Properties of a person
The event of a person changing the position they hold with an employer to one with less importance or responsibility.
Demotion
A person that is involved in a event as a partner in a relationship.
Partner
Partners
The event of a person changing the position they hold with an employer.
Change of Position
An event that starts at some time after this event.
Following Event
Following Events
The event of legally dissolving a marriage.
Divorce
_:e a bio:Divorce ; dc:date "1919-02-14" ; bio:partner <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Albert_Einstein> ; bio:partner <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Mileva_Mari%C4%87> ; bio:place <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Zurich> .
The divorce of Albert Einstein and Mileva Marić
The ceremonial event held when a Jewish boy reaches age 13.
BarMitzvah
A person that officiates at a ceremonial event.
Officiator
Officiators
The event of a person initiating attendence to a school or other place of learning.
Enrolment
The interval during which the event occurs. This interval represents the exact interval of occurence for an event, it starts at the moment the event commences and finishes when the event concludes. In other words both the event and the interval start at the same instant of time and extend for the same duration.
Event Interval
The event of interring the remains of a person's body into the ground.
Burial
The event of a person leaving their homeland with the intent of residing elsewhere.
Emigration
_:e a bio:Emigration ; dc:date "1933"^^xsd:gYear ; bio:principal <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Albert_Einstein> ; bio:state <http://dbpedia.org/resource/United_States> .
Albert Einstein emigrating to the United States
The ceremonial event held to admit a person to membership of a Christian church.
Baptism
Revised comment, replacing 'the Christian church' with 'a Christian church'
An organization that plays a role in an event.
Organization
Organizations
A particular type of connection existing between people, groups or organizations related to or having dealings with each other.
Agent Relationship
The ceremonial event of a person taking a public office or honour.
Investiture
An extended description or account of someone's life.
Biography
It is expected that the value of this property is either a literal formatted with HTML markup or a pointer to an HTML document.
Properties that relate an event to another event
A person that takes the primary and most important role in an event. For example the principal in a Birth event would be the child being born and the principal in a Burial event would be the deceased person.
Principal
Principals
The interval during which the relationship persists.
Relationship Interval
The ceremonial event held when a Jewish girl reaching age 13, also known as "Bat Mitzvah."
BasMitzvah
The event of a person being deliberately targeted and killed.
Assassination
A relationship that a person, group or organization participates in for some time.
Relationship
Relationships
The place at which an event occurred.
Place
Places
The ceremonial event held when a person receives authority to act in religious matters.
Ordination
The event of marking a person's death with a ceremony.
Funeral
An event that occurs and concludes immediately before this event.
Immediately Preceding Event
Immediately Preceding Events
The event of a person changing their name.
Change of Name
The biological mother of a person, also known as the genetrix.
Mother
Note that this is a strict definition of mother that does not include non-biological relationships. The Relationship vocabulary may be more suitable for broader types of parent/child relation.
A person that witnesses and can bear testimony to the occurrence of an event.
Witness
Witnesses
The event of a person obtaining citizenship. Note that the place the naturalization event occurs at may be different from the state the person is obtaining citizenship of.
Naturalization
_:e a bio:Emigration ; dc:date "1940" ; bio:principal <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Albert_Einstein> ; bio:state <http://dbpedia.org/resource/United_States> .
Albert Einstein becoming a citizen of the United States
The date at which an event occurred.
Date
Dates
The date should be formatted as specified in ISO8601. For example: 2003-03-15 corresponds to the 15th March 2003, and 2003-03-15T13:21-05:00 corresponds to 15th March 2003, 8:21 am, US Eastern Standard Time.
The event of a person voluntarily giving up or quitting their office or position.
Resignation
A type of event that is principally about one or more agents and their partnership. Other agents may be involved but the event is most significant for the partner agent.
Group Event
The event of a person being killed unlawfully with intent by the killer.
Murder
Properties that relate an event to an agent
An event that occurs while this event is occurring. The events need not start or conclude at the same times.
Concurrent Event
Concurrent Events
This document describes a vocabulary for describing biographical information about people, both living and dead.
The BIO vocabulary contains terms useful for finding out more about people and their backgrounds and has some cross-over into genealogical information. The approach taken is to describe a person's life as a series of interconnected key events, around which other information can be woven. This vocabulary defines the event framework and supplies a set of core event types that cover many use cases, but it is expected that it will be extended in other vocabularies to suit their needs. The intention of this vocabulary is to describe biographical events of people and this intention carries through to the definitions of the properties and classes which are person-centric rather than neutral. For example the Employment event puts the person being employed as the principal agent in the event rather than the employer. The BIO vocabulary defines a number of core classes and properties for describing biographical information: Figure: Biography Vocabulary Core Classes (PNG version, SVG version) At its heart the BIO vocabulary is concerned with people, their relationships and the events in their lives. Together these can be used to build up a narrative of a person's life and their interactions with other people, organizations and the world around them. Events bound intervals of time that may be associated with particular relationships between people and groups or organisations. Many different types of life event are defined in this vocabulary including the obvious Birth, Marriage and Death but also Coronation, Performance and even Murder. These events are not intended to be fully comprehensive but are representative of the types of events associated with biographical material. Currently the relationship segment of the vocabulary is underspecified with only a generic Relationship class available. It is envisaged that many types of relationship such as families, employments and ownerships will be specified in the future. The sequence of events and intervals build a timeline of history against which people and their relationships can be placed. The aim is to enable simple forms of genealogical reasoning such as determining whether a child was born out of wedlock or the location of a family given the fact one of their children was attending a particular school. Events are ordered in time by relating them to one another and to abstract intervals of time: Figure: Biography Vocabulary Timelines(PNG version, SVG version) Please see https://github.com/iand/vocab-bio for the master version of this vocabulary.
Copyright © 2002-2010 Ian Davis and David Galbraith
BIO: A vocabulary for biographical information
Batch of revisions based on community feedback
Minor changes to improve publishing process
Added properties for Birth and Death Event types, motivated by JSON serialisations of RDF
Added bio:Formation and bio:Disbanding events
Major expansion of properties and classes
Added subproperty and equivalent property relations for bio:father, bio:mother and bio:child
Added bio:Relationship class and properties
An event that occurs and concludes at some time before this event.
Preceding Event
Preceding Events
A extended interval of time related to a particular state of affairs, such as the lifespan of a person or a period of employment.
Interval
The event of a group or organization coming into being.
Formation
A type of event that is principally about a single person, group or organization. Other agents may be involved but the event is most significant for the principal agent.
Individual Event
The event of declaring a marriage void from the beginning as though it never existed.
Annulment
An event that marks the start of an interval and/or relationship. The event contributes to and/or causes of the state of affairs that hold during the interval. For example a period of study may be initiated by an Enrolment event.
Initiating Event
A biological child of a person.
Child
Children
Note that this is a strict definition of child that does not include adopted children, step-children or similar non-biological relationships. The Relationship vocabulary may be more suitable for broader types of parent/child relation.
Made equivalent to rel:parentOf on suggestion of Gautier Poupeau
An event is an occurrence that brings about a change in the state of affairs for one or more people and/or other agents. Events are assumed to occur over a period of time and may not have precise start and end points.
Event
This class is intended to describe biographical events, i.e. events in the life of a person.
Removed subclass of owl-time ProperInteval
A person that takes the parent role in an event.
Parent
Parents
An event associated with a person, group or organization.
Life Event
Life Events
The event of a person involuntarily giving up an office or position that is no longer needed. Redundancy is usually perceived to be the employer's fault and is usually due to conditions outside of the employee's control.
Redundancy
The event of an individual or a group of performers performing. Examples include concerts, plays, recitals, recordings, busking etc.
Performance
Properties of an event
The event of a person's life ending.
Death
_:e a bio:Death ; dc:date "1955-04-18" ; bio:principal <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Albert_Einstein> ; bio:place <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Princeton,_New_Jersey> .
The event of a person changing the position they hold with an employer to one with more importance or responsibility.
Promotion
The event of a person succeeding to the right to hold regal power. This event is often automatic on the death of the previous monarch and is usually followed by a coronation event.
Accession
The event of a person being detained in a jail or prison.
Imprisonment
An death event associated with a person, group or organization.
Death Event
Death Events