I have recently been working on an RDF schema for representing P3P (Platform for Privacy Preferences) which is in last call. I came across two cases where reification could be used. This post describes the first. P3P documents define a mechanism for describing data which I have rendered into RDF e.g. [ ]---rdf:type-->[p3p:User] | +----p3pb:bdate.ymd.year-->"1999" | +----p3pb:bdate.ymd.month->"February" ... A P3P profile describes what data is collected by a web site. One way to represent this is to say (simplified for clarity): [website]--p3p:collects-->[ ]--rdf:type-->[rdf:Statement] | +---rdf:predicate-->[p3pb:bdate.ymd.year] ie the site collects statements whose predicate is p3pb:bdate.ymd.year. BrianReceived on Thursday, 20 December 2001 09:52:45 EST
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