EKC 2025 [v2025.0.0] – Major Ontology Release

EKC 2025 [v2025.0.0] – Upgraded to a Publication-Ready Release

Highlights

• Formalized versioned, citable OWL/RDF distribution for EKC (scholarly communication–ready).
• Strengthened ontology header publication metadata: version lineage, issuance/modification timestamps, publisher/license, contributor credits.
• Maintained schema continuity with EKC 2022.α2507 (no intentional breaking changes in the core class/object-property set).

What changed (based on TTL export diff)

• Versioning: owl:versionIRI, owl:priorVersion, owl:versionInfo ("EKC 2025")
• Publication/provenance: dcterms:issued, dcterms:modified, dcterms:publisher, dcterms:license, dcterms:replaces
• Credits: dcterms:contributor populated (21 contributors, literal list); dc:creator and dc:title (EN/KO) curated
• Documentation strings: rdfs:comment expanded for clearer project scope

Compatibility / Migration

• If your pipeline uses ontology header fields (versionIRI/issued/modified/license/publisher), update the ingestion/citation rules accordingly.
• SPARQL queries should remain compatible unless you explicitly filter by header metadata.

Documentation

• Changelog: CHANGELOG.md (EKC 2025 [v2025.0.0] section)
• Detailed dossiers (※ Being expanded):
  • docs/changes/v2025.0.0-ontology-revision.md
  • docs/releases/v2022-alpha2507.md

Links

• Compare: v2022-alpha2507...v2025.0.0

Citation

The Center for Digital Humanities at the Academy of Korean Studies, EKC Ontology, Version 2025.
GitHub Release: https://github.com/dongshins/EKC_ontology/releases/tag/v2025.0.0

Contact Point

• For the ontology created in RDF/OWL using Protégé and serialized in Turtle format
  • Dong Shin SEO (oriental.neo@gmail.com)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/dongshins/EKC_ontology/commits/v2025.0.0