RE: Notes and use cases

Hi Andy,

Thanks for this, yes definitely worth adding these examples.  

Cheers,

Al. (currently pre-occupied with some VM work ...)  


> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-esw-thes-request@w3.org
> [mailto:public-esw-thes-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Houghton,Andrew
> Sent: 20 November 2005 00:38
> To: public-esw-thes@w3.org
> Subject: Notes and use cases
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I was reviewing the draft and for the Documentation 
> Properties it lists three use cases: RDF literal, related 
> resource description, and document reference.  The use cases 
> look like:
> 
> RDF literal
> <skos:example>Example text.</skos:example>
> 
> Related resource description
> <skos:example rdf:parseType='Resource'>
>   <rdf:value>Example text.</rdf:value>
>   <dc:date>2005-11-19<dc:date>
> </skos:example>
> 
> Document reference
> <skos:example rdf:resource='http://example.org/doc-2005-11-19.txt'/>
> 
> 
> It occurred to me that people may wish to embed XHTML as part 
> of their documentation property, e.g., note, example, etc.  
> Recently I was converting a word list to SKOS and I wanted to 
> do this.  What I wanted to do was the following:
> 
>     <skos:example rdf:parseType="Literal" xml:lang='en'>
>       <blockquote>
>         <p>But now people are exposing their taste in music 
> -- or hopeless lack thereof -- at workplaces, college 
> campuses and coffee shops, thanks to iTunes's ability to 
> share music over a network. Similarly, a quick gander at 
> someone's iPod reveals the same information.</p>
>         <p>This has lead to a new kind of music snobbery 
> called <strong>playlistism</strong>. Music snobs amuse 
> themselves by laughing at a colleague's collection of 
> showtunes, or the hopelessly pretentious jazz of the 
> goatee-ed guy at the other end of the dorm.</p>
>       </blockquote>
>       <cite>--Leander Kahney, "The Cult of iPod," 
> <em>Playlist</em>, November 2, 2005</cite>
>     </skos:example>
> 
> The above use case is valid RDF [all namespace were specified 
> on the rdf:RDF element], but it isn't one of the use cases 
> found in the draft.  This new use case is similar to the RDF 
> literal use case.  Should this new use case be added to the SKOS?
> 
> After creating the above skos:example it occurred to me that 
> I also wanted to break out the citation information so it 
> would be more structured.  So I changed the example to be:
> 
>     <skos:example rdf:parseType="Resource" xml:lang='en'>
>       <rdf:value>
>         <blockquote>
>           <p>But now people are exposing their taste in music 
> -- or hopeless lack thereof -- at workplaces, college 
> campuses and coffee shops, thanks to iTunes's ability to 
> share music over a network. Similarly, a quick gander at 
> someone's iPod reveals the same information.</p>
>           <p>This has lead to a new kind of music snobbery 
> called <strong>playlistism</strong>. Music snobs amuse 
> themselves by laughing at a colleague's collection of 
> showtunes, or the hopelessly pretentious jazz of the 
> goatee-ed guy at the other end of the dorm.</p>
>         </blockquote>
>         <cite>--Leander Kahney, "The Cult of iPod," 
> <em>Playlist</em>, November 2, 2005</cite>
>       </rdf:value>
>       <dc:creator>Leander Kahney</dc:creator>
>       <dc:title>The Cult of iPod</dc:title>
>       <dc:publisher>Playlist</dc:publisher>
>       <dc:date>2005-11-02</dc:date>
>     </skos:example>
> 
> The above case isn't valid RDF, according to the W3 
> validator, but I think it is a valid use case as well.  While 
> trying to figure out how I might make the above valid RDF, I 
> added the attribute rdf:parseType='Literal' to the rdf:value 
> element.  To my surprise, I'm by far not an RDF expert, it 
> produced valid RDF.  I guess that I'll have to go back and 
> re-read the RDF spec for the 100th time, but I was under the 
> impression that rdf:value could not contain attributes and 
> had to contain text content only.  I think the SKOS document 
> would benefit by placing a second example under the related 
> resource description use case showing that you could do the 
> following (fill in the comments with appropriate stuff):
> 
> <skos:example rdf:parseType='Resource'>
>   <rdf:value rdf:parseType='Literal'>
>     <!-- XML elements -->
>   </rdf:value>
>   <!-- properties -->
> </skos:example>
> 
> 
> Andy.
> 
>

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