diff --git a/apps/roam/src/utils/jsonld.ts b/apps/roam/src/utils/jsonld.ts
index 9ce326880..ce0699a17 100644
--- a/apps/roam/src/utils/jsonld.ts
+++ b/apps/roam/src/utils/jsonld.ts
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ export const jsonLdContext = (baseUrl: string): Record<string, string> => ({
   prov: "http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#",
   sioc: "http://rdfs.org/sioc/ns#",
   dgb: "https://discoursegraphs.com/schema/dg_base",
+  dg: "https://discoursegraphs.com/schema/dg_core",
   subClassOf: "rdfs:subClassOf",
   title: "dc:title",
   label: "rdfs:label",
@@ -32,6 +33,7 @@ export const jsonLdContext = (baseUrl: string): Record<string, string> => ({
   relationDef: "dgb:RelationDef",
   relationInstance: "dgb:RelationInstance",
   inverseOf: "owl:inverseOf",
+  backlink: "dg:backlink",
   pages: `${baseUrl}/page/`,
 });
 
@@ -105,7 +107,10 @@ export const getJsonLdData = async ({
   nodeLabelByType: Record<string, string>;
   updateExportProgress: (progress: number) => Promise<void>;
 }): Promise<
-  Record<string, string | Record<string, string> | Record<string, string>[]>
+  Record<
+    string,
+    string | Record<string, string> | Record<string, string | string[]>[]
+  >
 > => {
   const roamUrl = canonicalRoamUrl();
   const getRelationData = () =>
@@ -131,40 +136,56 @@ export const getJsonLdData = async ({
       .filter((s) => s.content !== undefined)
       .map((node) => [node.label, node["@id"]]),
   );
+  const nodeSet = new Set(pageData.map((n) => n.uid));
 
-  await Promise.all(
+  const nodes = await Promise.all(
     pageData.map(async (page: Result) => {
-      const r = await pageToMarkdown(page, {
+      const md = await pageToMarkdown(page, {
         ...settings,
         allNodes,
         linkType: "roam url",
       });
-      page.content = r.content;
+      const { content } = md;
+      page.content = content;
+      const { text, uid, type } = page;
+      const { date, displayName, modified } = getPageMetadata(text);
+      const nodeType = nodeSchemaUriByName[type as string];
+      if (!nodeType) {
+        internalError({
+          error: `Unknown node type "${type as string}" for page "${text}"`,
+        });
+      }
+      const backlinks = (
+        await (window.roamAlphaAPI.data.backend.q(
+          `[:find ?uid
+        :where
+          [?page :block/uid "${uid}"]
+          [?block :block/page ?page]
+          [or [?refBlock :block/refs ?block] [?refBlock :block/refs ?page]]
+          [?refBlock :block/page ?refPage]
+          [?refPage :block/uid ?uid]
+          ]`,
+        ) as Promise<Array<[string]>>)
+      )
+        .map((x) => x[0])
+        .filter((x) => nodeSet.has(x));
+      const r: Record<string, string | string[]> = {
+        "@id": `pages:${uid}`, // eslint-disable-line @typescript-eslint/naming-convention
+        "@type": nodeType, // eslint-disable-line @typescript-eslint/naming-convention
+        title: text,
+        content,
+        modified: modified?.toJSON(),
+        created: date.toJSON(),
+        creator: displayName,
+      };
+      if (backlinks.length > 0) {
+        r["backlinks"] = backlinks.map((x) => `pages:${x}`);
+      }
       numTreatedPages += 1;
       await updateExportProgress(0.1 + (numTreatedPages / numPages) * 0.75);
+      return r;
     }),
   );
-
-  const nodes = pageData.map(({ text, uid, content, type }) => {
-    const { date, displayName, modified } = getPageMetadata(text);
-    const nodeType = nodeSchemaUriByName[type];
-    if (!nodeType) {
-      internalError({
-        error: `Unknown node type "${type}" for page "${text}"`,
-      });
-    }
-    const r = {
-      "@id": `pages:${uid}`, // eslint-disable-line @typescript-eslint/naming-convention
-      "@type": nodeType ?? "nodeSchema", // eslint-disable-line @typescript-eslint/naming-convention
-      title: text,
-      content: content as string,
-      modified: modified?.toJSON(),
-      created: date.toJSON(),
-      creator: displayName,
-    };
-    return r;
-  });
-  const nodeSet = new Set(pageData.map((n) => n.uid));
   const rels = await getRelationData();
   await updateExportProgress(1);
   const relations = uniqJsonArray(
diff --git a/apps/website/public/schema/dg_base.ttl b/apps/website/public/schema/dg_base.ttl
index cdbf659fa..b06b6d22a 100644
--- a/apps/website/public/schema/dg_base.ttl
+++ b/apps/website/public/schema/dg_base.ttl
@@ -43,11 +43,6 @@ dgb:destination a dgb:Role ;
     rdfs:range dgb:NodeSchema ;
     rdfs:comment "The destination of a binary relation"@en .
 
-dgb:textRefersToNode a owl:ObjectProperty;
-  rdfs:domain dgb:NodeSchema;
-  rdfs:range dgb:NodeSchema;
-  rdfs:comment "The text of a node refers to another node"@en .
-
 
 # examples
 
diff --git a/apps/website/public/schema/dg_core.ttl b/apps/website/public/schema/dg_core.ttl
index 0a12121a7..cbf70630f 100644
--- a/apps/website/public/schema/dg_core.ttl
+++ b/apps/website/public/schema/dg_core.ttl
@@ -3,11 +3,18 @@
 @prefix : <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
 @prefix dc: <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/> .
 @prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
-@prefix vs: <http://www.w3.org/2003/06/sw-vocab-status/ns#> .
-@prefix sioc: <http://rdfs.org/sioc/ns#> .
 @prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
 @prefix dgb: <https://discoursegraphs.com/schema/dg_base#> .
 @prefix dg: <https://discoursegraphs.com/schema/dg_core#> .
+# http://purl.org/spar/po
+@prefix po: <http://www.essepuntato.it/2008/12/pattern#> .
+
+<https://discoursegraphs.com/schema/dg_core#>
+    dc:date "2025-12-31" ;
+    rdfs:comment "DiscourseGraph core vocabulary"@en ;
+    rdfs:label "DiscourseGraph core vocabulary"@en ;
+    owl:versionInfo "0 (tentative)" ;
+    a owl:Ontology.
 
 dg:Question a dgb:NodeSchema;
   rdfs:label "Question"@en;
@@ -90,3 +97,15 @@ dg:curatedFrom a dgb:RelationDef;
   rdfs:label "Curated from"@en;
   rdfs:range dg:Evidence;
   rdfs:domain dg:Source.
+
+dg:containsRec a owl:TransitiveProperty.
+po:contains rdfs:subPropertyOf dg:containsRec.
+dc:hasPart rdfs:subPropertyOf dg:containsRec.
+
+dg:containsRef a owl:ObjectProperty;
+  owl:propertyChainAxiom (dg:containsRec dc:references);
+  rdfs:label "Contains a reference to"@en.
+
+dg:backlink a owl:ObjectProperty;
+  owl:inverseOf dg:containsRef;
+  rdfs:label "is referred by"@en.