- From: Keith Alexander <k.j.w.alexander@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:05:08 -0000
- To: "Simon Reinhardt" <simon.reinhardt@koeln.de>, "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:25:58 -0000, Simon Reinhardt <simon.reinhardt@koeln.de> wrote: Hi Simon, > Keith Alexander wrote: >> Can you explain why you prefer sioc:has_container to dcterms:isPartOf ? > > Let's call it consistent use of a vocabulary. Since I'm using SIOC for > lots of things in the platform anyway (like, most resources in my > dataset are sioc:Items) it makes sense to use SIOC the way it is > expected to be used. Then again I also want to use voiD the way it is > expected to be used, so I'm in a dilemma. :-) > I don't think sioc:has_container (and its domain and range classes) are altogether fitting here (it seems to me anyway), and I think there's a danger that aligning would dilute, rather than consolidate, the semantics of voiD and SIOC. In the Guide, we advocate foaf:Document -> dcterms:isPartOf -> voiD:Dataset as a solution for "following-your-nose" from a dereferenced URI back to the dataset it belongs to. But the foaf:Document isn't really an intrinsic 'item' of the dataset - it's just an artifact of the dataset being published as dereferencable LOD. In this sense, I don't see too much value in alignment anyway - the ":Document dcterms:isPartOf :Dataset" triple is only there to let users/agents navigate back to the void:Dataset description. If you were to publish the dataset purely as a dump, I doubt there would be too much point in wrapping up each resource as an Item or a Document, or whatever, which links back to the Dataset. It's only when publishing them as discrete web pages that we want some way of explicitly linking back to the dataset, so that the dataset description is discoverable. But maybe I'm missing something, so if you can explain the utility of publishing datasets as SIOC, and defend the semantic common-ground of the concepts, please do :) Yours, Keith
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