- From: Vuk Milicic <vuk.milicic@eurecom.fr>
- Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 18:49:12 +0100
- To: Markus Lanthaler <markus.lanthaler@gmx.net>
- Cc: public-hydra@w3.org, public-lod@w3.org, W3C Web Schemas Task Force <public-vocabs@w3.org>
Hi Markus, How about this: </markus/friends/> rdfs:subClassOf schema:Person . </alice> a </markus/friends/> . </markus> schema:knows </alice> . Vuk Milicic @faviki On 24 Mar 2014, at 16:24, Markus Lanthaler <markus.lanthaler@gmx.net> wrote: > Hi all, > > We have an interesting discussion in the Hydra W3C Community Group [1] > regarding collections and would like to hear more opinions and ideas. I'm > sure this is an issue a lot of Linked Data applications face in practice. > > Let's assume we want to build a Web API that exposes information about > persons and their friends. Using schema.org, your data would look somewhat > like this: > > </markus> a schema:Person ; > schema:knows </alice> ; > ... > schema:knows </zorro> . > > All this information would be available in the document at /markus (please > let's not talk about hash URLs etc. here, ok?). Depending on the number of > friends, the document however may grow too large. Web APIs typically solve > that by introducing an intermediary (paged) resource such as > /markus/friends/. In Schema.org we have ItemList to do so: > > </markus> a schema:Person ; > schema:knows </markus/friends/> . > > </markus/friends/> a schema:ItemList ; > schema:itemListElement </alice> ; > ... > schema: itemListElement </zorro> . > > This works, but has two problems: > 1) it breaks the /markus --[knows]--> /alice relationship > 2) it says that /markus --[knows]--> /markus/friends > > While 1) can easily be fixed, 2) is much trickier--especially if we consider > cases that don't use schema.org with its "weak semantics" but a vocabulary > that uses rdfs:range, such as FOAF. In that case, the statement > > </markus> foaf:knows </markus/friends/> . > > and the fact that > > foaf:knows rdfs:range foaf:Person . > > would yield to the "wrong" inference that /markus/friends is a foaf:Person. > > How do you deal with such cases? > > How is schema.org intended to be used in cases like these? Is the above use > of ItemList sensible or is this something that should better be avoided? > > > Thanks, > Markus > > > P.S.: I'm aware of how LDP handles this issue, but, while I generally like > the approach it takes, I don't like that fact that it imposes a specific > interaction model. > > > [1] http://bit.ly/HydraCG > > > > -- > Markus Lanthaler > @markuslanthaler > > > > >
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