- From: Patrick Logan <patrickdlogan@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 09:49:52 -0700
- To: Michael Hausenblas <michael.hausenblas@deri.org>
- Cc: Bernard Vatant <bernard.vatant@mondeca.com>, Linked Data community <public-lod@w3.org>
Would it be reasonable to use http://schema.rdfs.org rather than http://schema.org in the URIs? Essentially mirror what one might hope for schema.org to become. Then if it does become that, link the two together? On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Michael Hausenblas <michael.hausenblas@deri.org> wrote: >> Something I don't understand. If I read well all savvy discussions so far, >> publishers behind http://schema.org URIs are unlikely to ever provide any >> RDF description, > > What makes you so sure about that not one day in the (near?) future the > Schema.org URIs will serve RDF or JSON, FWIW, additionally to HTML? ;) > > Cheers, > Michael > -- > Dr. Michael Hausenblas, Research Fellow > LiDRC - Linked Data Research Centre > DERI - Digital Enterprise Research Institute > NUIG - National University of Ireland, Galway > Ireland, Europe > Tel. +353 91 495730 > http://linkeddata.deri.ie/ > http://sw-app.org/about.html > > On 7 Jun 2011, at 08:44, Bernard Vatant wrote: > >> Hi all >> >> Something I don't understand. If I read well all savvy discussions so far, >> publishers behind http://schema.org URIs are unlikely to ever provide any >> RDF description, so why are those URIs declared as identifiers of RDFS >> classes in the http://schema.rdfs.org/all.rdf. For all I can see, >> http://schema.org/Person is the URI of an information resource, not of a >> class. >> So I would rather have expected mirroring of the schema.org URIs by >> schema.rdfs.org URIs, the later fully dereferencable proper RDFS classes >> expliciting the semantics of the former, while keeping the reference to the >> source in some dcterms:source element. >> >> Example, instead of ... >> >> <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://schema.org/Person"> >> <rdf:type rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#Class"/> >> <rdfs:label xml:lang="en">Person</rdfs:label> >> <rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">A person (alive, dead, undead, or >> fictional).</rdfs:comment> >> <rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="http://schema.org/Thing"/> >> <rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://schema.org/Person"/> >> </rdf:Description> >> >> where I see a clear abuse of rdfs:isDefinedBy, since if you dereference >> the said URI, you don't find any explicit RDF definition ... >> >> I would rather have the following >> >> <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://schema.rdfs.org/Person"> >> <rdf:type rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#Class"/> >> <rdfs:label xml:lang="en">Person</rdfs:label> >> <rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">A person (alive, dead, undead, or >> fictional).</rdfs:comment> >> <rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="http://schema.rdfs.org/Thing"/> >> <dcterms:source rdf:resource="http://schema.org/Person"/> >> </rdf:Description> >> >> To the latter declaration, one could safely add statements like >> >> schema.rdfs:Person rdfs:subClassOf foaf:Person >> >> etc >> >> Or do I miss the point? >> >> Bernard >> >> 2011/6/3 Michael Hausenblas <michael.hausenblas@deri.org> >> >> http://schema.rdfs.org >> >> ... is now available - we're sorry for the delay ;) >> >> Cheers, >> Michael >> -- >> Dr. Michael Hausenblas, Research Fellow >> LiDRC - Linked Data Research Centre >> DERI - Digital Enterprise Research Institute >> NUIG - National University of Ireland, Galway >> Ireland, Europe >> Tel. +353 91 495730 >> http://linkeddata.deri.ie/ >> http://sw-app.org/about.html >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Bernard Vatant >> Senior Consultant >> Vocabulary & Data Integration >> Tel: +33 (0) 971 488 459 >> Mail: bernard.vatant@mondeca.com >> ---------------------------------------------------- >> Mondeca >> 3, cité Nollez 75018 Paris France >> Web: http://www.mondeca.com >> Blog: http://mondeca.wordpress.com >> ---------------------------------------------------- > > >
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