- From: Simon Cox via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 01:41:52 +0000
- To: public-dxwg-wg@w3.org
'Hard' typing just means using `rdf:type` for classification. 'Soft' typing means using anything else (e.g. `dct:type`). The range of `rdf:type` is `rdfs:Class` and standard RDFS entailments mean that an individual is also a member of the super-classes of the asserted classifier. As @lvdbrink points out, the range of `dct:type` is also `rdfs:Class`, but no other entailments follow. The use of either `rdf:type` or `dct:type` entails that the value is an `rdfs:Class` regardless of whether it was originally declared as such - so if it was defined as a `skos:Concept` it also becomes a `rdfs:Class`. The use of any predicate other than `rdf:type` for classification has no RDFS significance, but nevertheless might be given significance in a particular application. This doesn't anything y'all don't know already, but maybe puts it in perspective. -- GitHub Notification of comment by dr-shorthair Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues/314#issuecomment-414175014 using your GitHub account
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