JudaicaLink Ontology
JudaicaLink Ontology This dataset provides the ontology for JudaicaLink.
It is used to describe the data in the JudaicaLink project, which includes various aspects of Jewish cultural heritage, such as texts, objects, and places. The ontology is available in Turtle format and can be accessed through the provided URL. It is designed to be used with the JudaicaLink data, which is available in various formats, including RDF and JSON-LD.
| Kind: | Ontology |
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| Method: | Curated |
| Source: | http://ontology.judaicalink.org |
| Example: | http://data.judaicalink.org/ontology/describedAt |
| URI namespaces: | http://data.judaicalink.org/data/ontology/ |
| Maintained by: | Kai Eckert |
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| FID portal: | This dataset in the catalogue of the FID Jewish Studies |
| Generator: | generators/ontology (how every version was made) |
| All locations: | Where the files of this dataset are (data finder) |
Versions
2026-10-18 stable · Kai Eckert
The ontology as of judaicalink-ontology 918d57c: the common layer, with the terms of pull requests 24 and 25.
| File | Size | Triples | SHA-256 |
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| judaicalink-ontology.ttl.gz | 9.0 kB | 659 | 0b83e3fe9565… |
| ontology-meta.ttl.gz | 1.7 kB | 62 | 2030e77ceb02… |
2026-10-17 older · Kai Eckert
The ontology as of judaicalink-ontology d7abf5f: the common layer, with the terms of pull requests 21, 22 and 23.
| File | Size | Triples | SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|---|
| judaicalink-ontology.ttl.gz | 7.9 kB | 596 | 680a6b0ddd51… |
| ontology-meta.ttl.gz | 1.7 kB | 62 | 13e624c4445a… |
2026-10-12 older · Kai Eckert
The ontology as of judaicalink-ontology 4597e7f, with the terms of pull requests 18 (Compact Memory, corpus presence), 19 (normalised person data) and 20 (entity pages).
| File | Size | Triples | SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|---|
| judaicalink-ontology.ttl.gz | 4.3 kB | 380 | 5aec92e621be… |
| ontology-meta.ttl.gz | 1.7 kB | 58 | 9e8a7904650d… |
2025-11-27 older · Benjamin Schnabel
The ontology as of judaicalink-ontology b26c961, as served on ontology.judaicalink.org.
| File | Size | Triples | SHA-256 |
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| judaicalink-ontology.ttl.gz | 2.8 kB | 272c3c59db7b… |
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| ontology-meta.ttl.gz | 1.7 kB | 57 | 21762f0fca59… |
Changelog
- 2026-10-18 (version 2026-10-18), Kai Eckert: Common layer: terms used by several datasets (dcterms:isPartOf, dcterms:title, dcterms:date, foaf:page, gndo:editor, gndo:relatedPerson and others); Dublin Core: dcterms: only (decision 0030).
- 2026-10-17 (version 2026-10-17), Kai Eckert: Common layer: the shared terms, foreign terms with jl:label and jl:comment; new jl:sameAs, jl:label, jl:comment, jl:currentSubjects, jl:grandparent, jl:burialLocation(URI); standard classes; 41 terms deprecated; GND ontology terms in https.
- 2026-10-12, Kai Eckert: Version 2026-10-12 made the stable version (the data versions of 2026-10-12 use its terms).
- 2026-10-12 (version 2026-10-12), Kai Eckert: New terms for Compact Memory and corpus presence, normalised person data and entity pages (decision 0020); comment of jl:represents corrected.
- 2026-10-12, Kai Eckert: Licence name corrected to CC BY 4.0 (was “CC4.0”); the licence URI is unchanged.
- 2020-09-29, Kai Eckert: Turtle file generated from the documentation.
- 2018-07-26, Maral Dadvar: Ontology updated.
- 2018-07-24, Kai Eckert: First version of the ontology documentation (judaicalink-ontology).

