- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:06:22 +0200
- To: Jesse Weaver <weavej3@rpi.edu>
- Cc: ivan@w3.org, public-rdf-wg@w3.org
On 29 August 2011 21:42, Jesse Weaver <weavej3@rpi.edu> wrote: > Hi Ivan. > > Perhaps my language seemed to reflect some conflation between containers > and collections, so I wasn't very clear. I am thinking at a higher level > of just something that contains something. I don't care if it's an RDF > container or RDF collection. All I want to do is represent a group of > things (loosely defined, I have avoided the word "set" here) in RDF. It > would be nice to be able to say in a single statement: > > <group> <contains> <thing> . > > You cannot do this with RDF collections. You can do it with RDF > containers using rdfs:member. It seems that we should have some way of > doing this, regardless of whether RDF containers are deprecated. If you are not concerned with order, consider a couple more mechanisms: 1. use rdf:type, and make a class for each group of contained entities. 2. Find some non-W3C relationship that is close enough to your meaning; e.g. Dublin Core terms has 'isPartOf', http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#terms-isPartOf defined as "A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included." Dan
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