Re: RDF containers vs. multiple properties of same predicate

Jan--

There's some disucssion on this in the Container section of the RDF Primer.

--Frank

Jan Algermissen wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> does anyone know of a definition (or discussion) of the semantic 
> difference between the RDF graphs resulting from for example:
> 
> <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://example.org/books/some_book">
>    <dc:creator rdf:resource="http://foo.org/persons/joe_smith"/>
>    <dc:creator rdf:resource="http://foo.org/persons/mary_meyer"/>
> </rdf:Description>
> 
> and
> 
> <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://example.org/books/some_book">
>  <dc:creator>
>         <rdf:Bag>
>            <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://foo.org/persons/joe_smith"/>
>            <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://foo.org/persons/mary_meyer"/>
>         </rdf:Bag>
>   </dc:creator>
> </rdf:Description>
> 
> IOW, what is the difference of having several authors vs. having an 
> rdf:bag of authors?
> 
> 
> Thanks for any clarification.
> 
> Jan
> 
> 

Received on Monday, 4 April 2005 12:04:05 UTC