RE: dealing with mixed mode elements in XML CIDOC data

> Sorry about the formatting, I don't know why Jena isn't abbreviating the
> elements, I think it is due to the use of "." in the names. This is
> copied 
> from the CIDOC RDFS schema - Andy is this legal?

A limitation of N3 is that dot can't be used in qnames. It would get
confused with the path separator syntax in some rule forms.

	Andy

-------- Original Message --------
> From: Butler, Mark <mailto:Mark_Butler@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
> Date: 16 October 2003 15:57
> 
> Hi team
> 
> I've been taking a look at some sample CIDOC data but there seem to be
> some 
> mismatches here between the XML data examples and the RDFS schema for
> CIDOC. 
> For example here is an extract of some CIDOC data:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> <CRMset>
> 	<CRM_Entity>85/1002 Textile lengths
>     		<in_class>E22: Man-Made Object</in_class>
> 		<has_note>
>        	 Textile length, batik, silk, Lena Pwerle/Utopia Batik
Program,
> Ngkwarlerlaneme camp, Utopia,  Northern Territory, Australia, 1984-1985
> 			<has_type> Statement
> 				<in_class>E55: Type</in_class>
> 			</has_type>
> 		</has_note>
> 	</CRM_Entity>
> </CRMset>
> 
> It's not clear to me at the moment how to deal with mixed-mode nested
> elements. One way of representing this in RDF (written as N3) is
> 
> # Base: file:///C:/jcvs/simile4/simile/corpus/cidoc/cidoc.rdf
> @prefix rdf:     <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .
> @prefix :        <http://www.dspace.org/simile/schemas/cidoc-16oct#> .
> 
> <http://www.dspace.org/simile/metadata/cidoc/85/1002_Textile_lengths>
>       a      
> <http://www.dspace.org/simile/schemas/cidoc-16oct#E22.Man-Made 
> Object> ;
>       <http://www.dspace.org/simile/schemas/cidoc-16oct#P3F.has_note>
>               [
>                        
>                
> <http://www.dspace.org/simile/schemas/cidoc-16oct#E55.Type> "Statement"
> ; :text   "Textile length, batik, silk, Lena Pwerle/Utopia  
> Batik Program, Ngkwarlerlaneme camp, Utopia, Northern Territory,
> Australia, 1984-1985"
>               ] ;
> 
> Sorry about the formatting, I don't know why Jena isn't abbreviating the
> elements, I think it is due to the use of "." in the names. This is
> copied 
> from the CIDOC RDFS schema - Andy is this legal?
> 
> However one reason the representation above may not be correct is in the
> CIDOC RDFS schema it says that cidoc:P3F.has_note has range
> cidoc:E1.CRM_Entity and domain rdf:Literal. This means that using a
> bNode in 
> order to tie the cidoc:E55.Type and the literal value together as I've
> done 
> above wasn't what was intended - any ideas or comments?
> 
> thanks in advance
> 
> Dr Mark H. Butler
> Research Scientist                HP Labs Bristol
> mark-h_butler@hp.com
> Internet: http://www-uk.hpl.hp.com/people/marbut/