Office Ontology

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Office Ontology

This page documents a minimal RDF-style ontology for Microsoft Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) using existing vocabularies where possible and extending with custom classes under `office:` namespace.

Namespaces

• `doco:` – Document Components Ontology (Word/PowerPoint structure)
• `csvw:` – CSV on the Web Vocabulary (Excel-style tables)
• `office:` – Custom extension for Office suite concepts

Classes

Common

• `office:OfficeDocument` – Generic superclass for any Office document

Word (TextDocument)

• `office:TextDocument` – Word-style documents
• `doco:Chapter` – Top-level content unit (e.g., chapter in Word)
• `doco:Section` – Section within a chapter
• `doco:Paragraph` – Paragraph within a section

PowerPoint (Presentation)

• `office:Presentation` – PowerPoint file
• `office:Slide` – A single slide
• `doco:Figure` – Diagram or visual element on a slide

Excel (Spreadsheet)

• `office:Spreadsheet` – Excel-style spreadsheet
• `csvw:Table` – A table of data
• `csvw:Row` – A row in a table
• `csvw:Cell` – A cell in a row

Properties

• `office:hasSlide` – Presentation → Slide
• `office:hasTable` – Spreadsheet → Table
• `csvw:row` – Table → Row
• `csvw:cell` – Row → Cell

RDF Representation

@prefix doco: <http://purl.org/spar/doco/> .
@prefix office: <http://example.org/office#> .
@prefix csvw: <http://www.w3.org/ns/csvw#> .

office:OfficeDocument a rdfs:Class .

office:TextDocument a rdfs:Class ; rdfs:subClassOf office:OfficeDocument .
doco:Chapter a rdfs:Class ; rdfs:subClassOf office:TextDocument .
doco:Section a rdfs:Class ; rdfs:subClassOf doco:Chapter .
doco:Paragraph a rdfs:Class ; rdfs:subClassOf doco:Section .

office:Presentation a rdfs:Class ; rdfs:subClassOf office:OfficeDocument .
office:Slide a rdfs:Class ; rdfs:subClassOf office:Presentation .
doco:Figure a rdfs:Class ; rdfs:subClassOf office:Slide .

office:Spreadsheet a rdfs:Class ; rdfs:subClassOf office:OfficeDocument .
csvw:Table a rdfs:Class ; rdfs:subClassOf office:Spreadsheet .
csvw:Row a rdfs:Class .
csvw:Cell a rdfs:Class .

office:hasSlide a rdf:Property ; rdfs:domain office:Presentation ; rdfs:range office:Slide .
office:hasTable a rdf:Property ; rdfs:domain office:Spreadsheet ; rdfs:range csvw:Table .
csvw:row a rdf:Property ; rdfs:domain csvw:Table ; rdfs:range csvw:Row .
csvw:cell a rdf:Property ; rdfs:domain csvw:Row ; rdfs:range csvw:Cell .

UML Diagram

See Also

• DoCO – Document Components Ontology
• RDF Data Cube Vocabulary
• CSVW – Tabular Metadata Vocabulary
• PlantUML Class Diagrams