- From: Jakob Voss <jakob.voss@gbv.de>
- Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:32:16 +0200
- CC: public-lld@w3.org
Ed Summers wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Dan Brickley<danbri@danbri.org> wrote:
>> I tend to see your question as a variant on "why both using SKOS RDF
>> to describe concepts of thing, when I could just describe the world
>> directly in RDF?".
>
> Not really. My question is actually why bother describing the same
> thing (in this case a Person) twice. What actual use cases does it
> serve?
I think the issue is similar to non-information- vs.
information-resource. Some want to distinguish the homepage of a person
and some don't bother.
I the context of linked library data I prefer having one URI for one
person, and it can be all of foaf:Person, rdaEnt:Person, skos:Concept
(plus any yourPersonalOntology:Stuff). We can still distinguish
person_as_x and person_as_y:
<person_123> a skos:Concept, foaf:Person, rdaEnt:Person ;
skos:narrower
<person_123_as_politician>,
<person_123_as_parent>
<person_123_as_author> .
It's difficult enough to tell people to always use one unique identifier
for one person, and to use an URI instead of some local, ad-hoc
character sequence.
Jakob
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