Re: ISSUE-65 (excess vocab): REPORTED: excessive duplication of vocabulary

Ivan Herman wrote:
>Well... I did meet one example. DCMI (the organization behind the Dublin
>Core metadata) is having problems exactly on that. They have an abstract
>model document[1] where they speak about 'value surrogate' that can
>either be a literal or non-literal. When mapping this abstract model to
>RDF[2] they hit this problem (eg, is the value of a dcterm:subject
>property a literal or not).

I personally think that this example illustrates plain bad modelling 
practice. Can you point to some discussion of the motivations for this 
choice which might modify my view?

-Evan

Received on Tuesday, 27 November 2007 15:28:43 UTC