Richard Cyganiak wrote: > On 24 Jan 2008, at 15:26, Simon Spero wrote: > >>> Like skos:subject, dcterms:subject seems to be intended for use on >>> documents, not people or cities. Hence it doesn't really meet >>> DBpedia's requirements. >>> >> The meaning of "document" in this context is extremely broad; if we >> follow Otlet's definition of a document as anything which can >> convey information to an observer(Buckland 1997), the term would >> seem to cover anything which can have a subject. >> >> By this standard, timbl is a document, but only when someone's >> looking. >> > > Sorry, but you lost me there. Where I live, people are not documents, > and I like it here. > Sure people are not documents, but People and Documents are concepts that can be associated with one another. Put differently Data Object of Type Person is a Concept and Data Object of Type Document is another. Both can be associated in a Data Graph using the appropriate link/predicate. Kingsley > Richard > > > > >> Simon >> >> Buckland, Michael K. “What is a ?document.” Journal of the American >> Society for Information Science 48, no. 9 (1997): 804-809. http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~buckland/whatdoc.html >> >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Dbpedia-discussion mailing list > Dbpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion > > -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.comReceived on Thursday, 24 January 2008 17:18:02 GMT
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