- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 11:34:00 -0500 (EST)
- To: Libby Miller <Libby.Miller@bristol.ac.uk>
- Cc: "Miles, AJ (Alistair) " <A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk>, "'public-esw-thes@w3.org'" <public-esw-thes@w3.org>
It isn't clear from that explanation what the difference is, since unless you talk about the domain and range of foaf:topic it's hard to understand how there is any. The fact that foaf:topic has a defined domain of foaf:Document and a range of rdf:Resource means that it's a bit more restricted than dc:subject which can happily live with a literal value, but there doesn't seem to be much else that can be used to pick between them (on my reading of the two sets of specifications). If I was trying to define the way I see the web I would write somewhere that foaf:topic seems to me like a subProperty of dc:subject. Being a believer in living language, and in language as an attempt to provide identifiers for concepts in such a way thhat we are convinced we mean the same thing, this doesn't strike me as a bad thing to do. But since we are inventing RDF vocabulary creation, it is something I would treat with care - especially while we don't yet have good methods for dealing with conflicting statements, including conflicting statements about how vocaublaries are defined. cheers Chaals On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Libby Miller wrote: >On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Miles, AJ (Alistair) wrote: > >> >> Can anyone tell me what's the fundamental difference between these two >> properties? > >see a message from Dan to the foaf list: > >http://rdfweb.org/pipermail/rdfweb-dev/2003-February/011064.html > >[[ >I want to note a critical difference between foaf:topic and dc:subject. >The former realtes a document to the thing that it is about; the latter >relates it to a subject code that in some other formalism is taken as >standing for that thing. >]]
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