Manga Ontology to make metadata schemes for Manga usable in the Linked Open Data environment

Yui Kodaira, Keishi Suzuki, Tetsuya Mihara, Mitsuharu Nagamori, Shigeo Sugimoto

It is common for us to use information resources on the Web to find Manga in various genres. Bibliographic information such as author name and title are commonly used to find the resources. Other information such as subjects of the stories and leading characters and their genres, is obviously useful but not well organized in the current Web environment as commonly accepted vocabularies to present the contents of Manga. It is difficult to find a Web resource which provides a common vocabulary about Manga. In order to facilitate information sharing and to organize the information resources of Manga, we need a set of terms formally organized to represent fundamental concepts and instances of and about Manga. In this paper, we propose an ontology designed as a formal basis to organize information resources about Manga and to present instances representing concepts and entities included in or associated with a Manga. We build the ontology, which is named Manga Ontology, using the categories included in Wikipedia on the basic framework designed based on the Cinema Ontology[10]. Every instance included in the Manga Ontology is modelled based on the Resource Description Framework (RDF) in order to make the Manga metadata resources built on the ontology as a Linked Open Data (LOD) resource.

Manga Ontology to make metadata schemes for Manga usable in the Linked Open Data environment

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