Re: Schema.org in RDF ...

If I've understood correctly http://schema.org/Person does not in any 
way equal or equiv to foaf:person

Surely:
?foo a <http://schema.org/Person> .

is actually saying

?foo foaf:primary_topic ?person .
?person a foaf:Person .

I've said before that there's value in predicates which relate the 
primary topic of X to the primary topic of Y, as that's what people want 
to do in RDFa. When converting into more reasonable (pun intended) 
predicates, this level of indirection should be recognised.

foaf:interest already as a domain which is the page, not the URI itself. 
http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/#term_interest -- I'm not keen on mixing them 
in one scheme -- it'll confuse people, but let people relate things 
together using their URLs and make the semantics describe that honestly.



Bernard Vatant wrote:
> Hi Michael
>
> I just repeated what some people-who-know-better around assumed  ...
> For myself I'm sure of nothing, in particular regarding the future :)
> And that's exactly why seems to me that assertions published today 
> should not preempt (possible) semantics of tomorrow, but rely on 
> semantics as they stand : http://schema.org/Person is an information 
> resource, not a rdfs:Class.
>
> In the solution I propose, whenever the event you expect happens, just 
> add owl:equivalentClass and owl:equivalentProperty to your descriptions.
> If it does not happen as you wish, nothing is broken. If people at 
> schema.org <http://schema.org> change their mind and throw away 
> everything, you get rid of the dcterms:source and your descriptions 
> stay alive and backward compatible for people in the RDF world. Et voilà.
>
> Bernard
>
> 2011/6/7 Michael Hausenblas <michael.hausenblas@deri.org 
> <mailto:michael.hausenblas@deri.org>>
>
>         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,
>
>
>     What makes you so sure about that not one day in the (near?)
>     future the Schema.org URIs will serve RDF or JSON, FWIW,
>     additionally to HTML? ;)
>
>
>     Cheers,
>            Michael
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>     On 7 Jun 2011, at 08:44, Bernard Vatant wrote:
>
>         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
>         <http://schema.org> URIs by schema.rdfs.org
>         <http://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
>         <mailto:michael.hausenblas@deri.org>>
>
>         http://schema.rdfs.org
>
>         ... is now available - we're sorry for the delay ;)
>
>         Cheers,
>               Michael
>         --
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>         LiDRC - Linked Data Research Centre
>         DERI - Digital Enterprise Research Institute
>         NUIG - National University of Ireland, Galway
>         Ireland, Europe
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>
>
>
>
>
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>         Vocabulary & Data Integration
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