RE: UBL Naming Conventions & RDF

This is similar to our strawman:

   <foo val="a:b"><parent val="c:d"></foo>

though our "parent" is ambiguous as it doesn't indicate the direction
of the relationship.  We actually mean the same as your childOf.  
And, as you see, we're using QNames rather than plain URIs.

For details, see:
   News Metadata Framework Technical Specification (6 July 2005)
   http://iptc.org/pdl.php?fn=DRAFT-NAR_1.0-spec-NMDF-TechSpec_6.pdf

Misha
Chair, IPTC News Metadata Framework WG


-----Original Message-----
From: semantic-web-request@w3.org [mailto:semantic-web-request@w3.org]
On Behalf Of Darren Chamberlain
Sent: 08 July 2005 19:30
To: semantic-web@w3.org
Subject: Re: UBL Naming Conventions & RDF

John McClure wrote:
> 2. Ian Davis suggests the alternative <Person> <parent> <Person rdf
> about='uri'/> </parent> </Person>
> for my <Person><has><Parent rdf about='uri'/></has></Person>. My
concern is that
> <parent> is a noun, in effect, thereby eliminating predicate verbs as
meaningful
> classes [...]

In this case, why not express the relationship in terms of the <Person>
node itself, i.e., <Person><childOf rdf:about='uri' /></Person> ?  I
find this less confusing than the original <hasParent>, since it's in
the active voice rather than the passive, so to speak, and less
gratuitously wordy than <has><Parent>.

(darren)



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