Re: "Microsoft Access" for RDF?

On Feb 20, 2015, at 2:42 AM, Michael Brunnbauer <brunni@netestate.de> wrote:

> 
> Hello Paul,
> 
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 09:19:06PM +0100, Michael Brunnbauer wrote:
>>> Another case is where there really is a total ordering.  For instance,  the
>>> authors of a scientific paper might get excited if you list them in the
>>> wrong order.  One weird old trick for this is RDF containers,  which are
>>> specified in the XMP dialect of Dublin Core
>> 
>> How do you bring this in line with <property> rdfs:range <datatype>, especially
>> <property> rdfs:range rdf:langString? I do not see a contradiction but this
>> makes things quite ugly.
>> 
>> How about all the SPARQL queries that assume a literal as object and not a RDF
>> container?
> 
> Another simpler example would be <property> rdfs:range foaf:Person. 
> http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/#term_Person says that "Something is a Person if it
> is a person". How can an RDF container of several persons be a person?

According the US Supreme Court a corporation is a person, so I would guess that a mere container would have no trouble geting past the censors.

Pat 

> 
> If one can put a container where a container is not explicitly sanctioned by 
> the semantics of the property, then I have missed something important.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Michael Brunnbauer
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