RE: newbie modelling question

> There is probably no "best" way, because "best" 
> is relative to what you want to accomplish.

i guess "best" meant "simplest" and "most interoperable"

> or this example in rdf, the best approach is probably to 
> create a bnode and attach all these properties.  You could 
> assign a type to the bnode, say "Editor" (of course, make 
> up a suitable URI for it), and the predicate might be 
> "editedBy", again using a URI).

Hmm .. i guess this is basically a relational 'join' table
where the URIs become the unique key pairs. i'll have a crack 
at that approach, thx Tom!

Paul