Re: Asset as superclass of Policy / Asset not superclass of Policy. Asset same as Thing.

On 15 Jul 2013, at 18:09, Mo McRoberts <mo.mcroberts@bbc.co.uk> wrote:

> Therefore, I propose maintaining the sameAs relationship between Asset and owl:Thing, and instead modify the spec to define Asset as any thing to which an ODRL policy might be applied (and leave it to the evolution of society, legal frameworks, and so on, to decide what that might be at any given time: if somebody asserts that an ODRL policy applies which is unenforceable because one can't legally or morally apply it, it's no different to an unenforceable policy for any other reason).

Our _intention_ was to say as little as possible about the Asset - apart from its identifier.

We said: "The Asset entity is aimed at **identifying** the content that is the subject of an ODRL policy..."

(**'s added)

So, in effect, an Asset can be any owl:Thing ;-)

Cheers...
Renato Iannella
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Received on Tuesday, 16 July 2013 02:09:58 UTC