RE: Bibliographic Record Schema

Hi Richard,

> I have considered this syntax however, there is the 
> requirement that contributors of different types still need 
> to be listed in some order hence my syntax. For some reason 
> using rdf:Resource parses with both the W3C RDF Validators 

I think the validator just treats it as some unknown property, but it
does generate a warning message e.g.

Warning: {W103} Creating statement for unknown RDF property:
'rdf:Resource'.[Line = 16, Column = 43]

(from validating your
http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~ceerdl/Dissertation/example5.rdf )

> and the SWI-Prolog RDF Validator however incorrect it is 
> which has confused me.  
> 
> Perhaps I am trying to do too much with RDF?
>
> I need to say in 
> the simplest way possible that there is a list of contributors:
> 
> 1 marcrel:aut #XYZ
> 2 marcrel:ill #ABC 
> 
> such that they point to a foaf:Person.

OK, in that case, as bib:contributors and marcrel:(xyz) are both
properties of your  resource of type bib:Citable, and it's the
contributors you wish to order, I think you'd need to use them as
distinct properties, something like bib.xml attached (which generates
the graph attached as bib.png).

> Can someone help me out?  With the deadline looming I really 
> would need to fix this in 24 hours.  

Pete