- From: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:42:34 +0000
- To: Simon Spero <sesuncedu@gmail.com>
- Cc: Mikael Nilsson <mikael@nilsson.name>, Bernard Vatant <bernard.vatant@mondeca.com>, Peter Ansell <ansell.peter@gmail.com>, dbpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net, SKOS <public-esw-thes@w3.org>
On 24 Jan 2008, at 15:26, Simon Spero wrote: >> Like skos:subject, dcterms:subject seems to be intended for use on >> documents, not people or cities. Hence it doesn't really meet >> DBpedia's requirements. > > The meaning of "document" in this context is extremely broad; if we > follow Otlet's definition of a document as anything which can > convey information to an observer(Buckland 1997), the term would > seem to cover anything which can have a subject. > > By this standard, timbl is a document, but only when someone's > looking. Sorry, but you lost me there. Where I live, people are not documents, and I like it here. Richard > > > Simon > > Buckland, Michael K. “What is a ?document.” Journal of the American > Society for Information Science 48, no. 9 (1997): 804-809. http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~buckland/whatdoc.html > >
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