owl:sameAs

I would like to make my Alex Catalogue more accessible as linked data,  
but I need some help in regards to the syntactical use of owl:sameAs.

I am well on my way to minting URIs and "cool" URLs, I think. For  
example:

  * negotiation - http://infomotions.com/etexts/id/more-utopia-221
  * RDF - http://infomotions.com/etexts/data/more-utopia-221
  * HTML - http://infomotions.com/etexts/page/more-utopia-221

More importantly, I need to figure out how to make my RDF richer. Here  
is what I have so far for my local copy of Thomas More's Utopia:

  <?xml version="1.0"?>
  <rdf:RDF
    xmlns:rdf     = "http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
    xmlns:dcterms = "http://purl.org/dc/terms/"
    xmlns:owl     = "http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl# >

    <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://infomotions.com/etexts/id/more-utopia-221 
">
      <dcterms:creator>More, Thomas</dcterms:creator>
      <dcterms:date>0000-00-00</dcterms:date>
      <dcterms:identifier rdf:resource="more-utopia-221" />
      <dcterms:language>en</dcterms:language>
      <dcterms:publisher>Wiretap Electronic Text Archive</ 
dcterms:publisher>
      <dcterms:rights>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/GPL/2.0/</ 
dcterms:rights>
      <dcterms:source rdf:resource="gopher://wiretap.spies.com:70/00/Library/Classic/utopia.txt 
" />
      <dcterms:subject>man</dcterms:subject>
      <dcterms:subject>people</dcterms:subject>
      <dcterms:subject>utopia</dcterms:subject>
      <dcterms:subject>english</dcterms:subject>
      <dcterms:subject>literature</dcterms:subject>
      <dcterms:title>Utopia</dcterms:title>
      <dcterms:type>text</dcterms:type>
      <dcterms:isFormatOf rdf:resource="http://infomotions.com/etexts/literature/english/1500-1599/more-utopia-221.txt 
" />
      <dcterms:isFormatOf rdf:resource="http://infomotions.com/etexts/concordance/more-utopia-221 
" />
      <dcterms:isFormatOf rdf:resource="http://infomotions.com/etexts/page/more-utopia-221 
" />
    </rdf:Description>

  </rdf:RDF>

Specifically, I need to know how to:

  * specify that the title is the same as http://dbpedia.org/resource/Utopia_(book)
  * specify the author is the same as http://dbpedia.org/resource/Thomas_More
  * point the subject words to things like a linked data version of  
WordNet

Is most of this done by simply adding an owl:sameAs attribute to the  
appropriate element(s), like this:

  <rdf:Description
  rdf:about="http://infomotions.com/etexts/id/more-utopia-221"
  owl:sameAs="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Utopia_(book)">

or

  <dcterms:creator owl:sameAs="http://dbpedia.org/resource/ 
Thomas_More">More, Thomas</dcterms:creator>

-- 
Eric Lease Morgan
Infomotions, Inc.

Received on Friday, 24 July 2009 21:44:39 UTC