Without this class the SRAP profile has no declaration of its primary semantics as a description of scholarly resources. This class also creates a human-understandable provenance to the SRAPResource shape in the TAP to RDF entities

• other similar classes in other vocabularies/schemas:
  • BIBO - bibo:AcademicArticle subclassed to "bibo:Article", but there is no way to indicate that a book, book section, or any other classes include the concept of "Academic".
  • schema.org - has schema:ScholarlyArticle and schema:MedicalScholarlyArticle. There is nothing similar for books or other information types, e.g. datasets.
  • FaBiO - "ScholarlyWork", a subclass of frbr:Work (using https://vocab.org/frbr/core). [kc: it isn't clear to me how this is to be used. SW is one of the work types, which includes types like biography, examination paper, instructional work.] Note that FaBiO uses FRBR concepts of Work, Expression, Manifestation, and Item in the way defined in FRBR, so this is implicit in the vocabulary.
  • COAR resource types as SKOS concepts (e.g. journal article, magazine article…) don't designate whether a resource is scholarly or not (except for theses which are implicitly scholarly)

Recommendation:
Add a new class ScholarlyResource to BIBO.

• The existing BIBO classes AcademicArticle and Thesis would become subclasses of ScholarlyResource.
• The class should be defined in a broad way to include resources other than documents, including e.g. scholarly data sets and research software.