- From: Makx Dekkers <mail@makxdekkers.com>
- Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2013 20:25:17 +0200
- To: "'Richard Cyganiak'" <richard@cyganiak.de>
- Cc: "'Bill Roberts'" <bill@swirrl.com>, <public-gld-comments@w3.org>
> AFAIK, DCMI namespaces contain *either* classes *or* properties but > not both. So the policy seems to address a case that will never occur > anyway. DCAT has a single namespace that contains both classes and > properties, so the concerns are different. No, the concern was the same. For example, the class that is the range of dcterms:language could have been called dcterms:Language, but it is dcterms:LinguisticSystem precisely to avoid that confusion. > > > Can you refer to cases where vocabularies use the same name for a > class and a property with only difference in case? > > Among those I've worked with, SWRC, Bio and MO all do it. I'm sure > there's others. > > > I looked at other vocabularies (FOAF, VOID, SKOS, GoodRelations, > DOAP, MO, RDFS) and none of them seem to do this. > > You didn't look very carefully, Makx! MO has mo:Track and mo:track, > mo:Record and mo:record. OK, OK, I did say I didn't do a deep investigation ;-) but you are right, I stand corrected. Makx.
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