RE: RDF version of IETF RFC metadata (and relationship to FOAF fi les? )

>>How's this (considering that I'd like to do the identification of the 
>>FOAF file out-of-line anyway): I do the creator like this
>>
>>  <creator rdf:parseType="Resource" rdf:ID="rfc3120N._Walsh">
>>    <foaf:name>N. Walsh</foaf:name>
>>  </creator>

>Hmm... I can't parse that; does rdf:ID work that way? If it meas the same
as 
>this, then we're on the same wavelength:
>
>  <creator>
>    <rdf:Description rdf:about="#rfc3120N._Walsh">
>      <foaf:name>N. Walsh</foaf:name>
>    </rdf:Description>
>  </creator>

arp2 parses it, but the output reminds me that my idea still has some
semantic problems: I thought I was using rdf:ID to give identity to the
document creator, but I was actually giving identity to the dc:creator
element (while rdf:about would say "this element is about the thing
identified as...", but that thing doesn't really exist). So the triples show
me that I was saying that the creator element has a FOAF file, which is not
what I was trying to get across. 

I just tried this,

  <!-- main file -->
  <rdf:Description rdf:about='http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3120.txt'>
    <title>A URN Namespace for XML.org.</title>
    <creator>K. Best</creator>
    <creator>N. Walsh</creator>
    <date>2001-06</date>
    <format>TXT</format>
    <pr:byteCount>8068</pr:byteCount>
    <rfc2026:status>INFORMATIONAL</rfc2026:status>
  </rdf:Description>

  <!-- out-of-line-file -->
  <rdf:Description rdf:about='http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3120.txt'>
    <creator rdf:parseType="Resource">
      <foaf:name>N. Walsh</foaf:name>
      <foaf:page rdf:resource="http://norman.walsh.name/foaf"/>
    </creator>
  </rdf:Description>

But the arp2 output tells me that the effect is that rfc3120.txt has one
dc:creator "K. Best", another dc:creator "N. Walsh", and another that is a
resource with a foaf:name value of "N. Walsh" that has a foaf file. 

I just can't figure out how to show that the dc:creator "N. Walsh" has the
foaf file shown. I guess this is why RDF encourages the use of URLs in
objects, and I'll have to put something in my own namespace like
http://www.snee.com/ns/rfccreators#N.%20Walsh that can be created with an
automated mapping from the IETF creator value after all. 

By the way, Dr. Dobbs said that they'd be running my article "RDF: Store
Metadata About Anything, Anywhere" in their April issue and that I could put
it on my own website a month after the cover date. 

thanks,

Bob

Received on Monday, 10 January 2005 14:51:02 UTC