Re: Schema.org in RDF ...

Hi all

Something I don't understand. If I read well all savvy discussions so far,
publishers behind http://schema.org URIs are unlikely to ever provide any
RDF description, so why are those URIs declared as identifiers of RDFS
classes in the http://schema.rdfs.org/all.rdf. For all I can see,
http://schema.org/Person is the URI of an information resource, not of a
class.
So I would rather have expected mirroring of the schema.org URIs by
schema.rdfs.org URIs, the later fully dereferencable proper RDFS classes
expliciting the semantics of the former, while keeping the reference to the
source in some dcterms:source element.

Example, instead of ...

<rdf:Description rdf:about="http://schema.org/Person">
<rdf:type rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#Class"/>
<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">Person</rdfs:label>
<rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">A person (alive, dead, undead, or fictional).</
rdfs:comment>
<rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="http://schema.org/Thing"/>
<rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://schema.org/Person"/>
</rdf:Description>

where I see a clear abuse of rdfs:isDefinedBy, since if you dereference the
said URI, you don't find any explicit RDF definition ...

I would rather have the following

<rdf:Description rdf:about="http://schema.rdfs.org/Person">
<rdf:type rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#Class"/>
<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">Person</rdfs:label>
<rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">A person (alive, dead, undead, or fictional).</
rdfs:comment>
<rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="http://schema.rdfs.org/Thing"/>
<dcterms:source rdf:resource="http://schema.org/Person"/>
</rdf:Description>

To the latter declaration, one could safely add statements like

schema.rdfs:Person rdfs:subClassOf  foaf:Person

etc

Or do I miss the point?

Bernard

2011/6/3 Michael Hausenblas <michael.hausenblas@deri.org>

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