RE: Predicate for external links on dbpedialite.org?

> From: Dan Brickley [mailto:danbri@danbri.org]
> Sent: Thu 7/15/2010 5:59 PM
> To: Nicholas Humfrey
> Cc: public-lod@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Predicate for external links on dbpedialite.org?
>  
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Nicholas Humfrey
> <nicholas.humfrey@bbc.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have added external links to dbpedialite, for example see Berlin:
> > http://dbpedialite.org/things/3354
> >
> > Is there a better predicate to use than rdfs:seeAlso? I am not sure if it is
> > correct because the link is just a random webpage, rather than an
> > rdfs:Resource but not found anything better. Perhaps an openvocab subclass
> > of rdfa:seeAlso?
> 
> If you're pointing at documents, you could use foaf:page (inverse of
> foaf:topic) to say that those pages have (the city) Berlin as a topic.
> Or if you're more confident, foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf (inverse of
> foaf:primaryTopic).
> 
> Oh hey, in the 1/2 hour since I started drafted this reply, I see the
> conversation has gone in this direction. Yeah it sounds like
> foaf:topic or foaf:page fit. I don't particularly enjoy RDF vocabs
> having inverses in them but for that matter we do have both directions
> named in FOAF, so pick whatever suits your markup best. I lean towards
> 'topic' as the most intuitively named, but DBpedia uses 'page', which
> might be worth bearing in mind...


Cool, thanks Dan.

It is easier for me to use foaf:page than foaf:topic, due to the way the application is written.

I have opted to use foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf for the wikipedia page and foaf:page for the other external links.

Just pushed it live to dbpedialite.org.


nick.


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