- From: Xiaoshu Wang <wangxiao@musc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:18:52 -0400
- To: "'w3c semweb hcls'" <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
> If you or someone adds a new property to their base graph, > the basic RDF model will allow merging, but that will not > prevent inconsistencies( or "opinions") from being added. We > will eventually have to address these issues of provenance, Agree. Provenance is an important issue in an open world. > and there are several possible ways forwards here. But by > dereferencing a Entrez Gene data record, I should get back > only that part of the graph that NCBI Entrez is responsible > for. Outside references and annotations could be > discovered/aggregated by specific services, such as a > DAS-like (distributed annotation server) model. It suddenly hits me. Is that the "authority" you mentioned means a formal way to constrain the use of a property. For instance, if we intended to devise a rdf:Property, say "hcls:entrezData", that points only to the NCBI? If so, I guess it should be doable by defining a subtype of xsd:string that satisfies a pattern of http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi etc. And then make "hcls:entrezData" a DatatypePropety and make its range set to the new string subtype. I am not an expert on XML schema but it should be doable from my current understanding. Xiaoshu
Received on Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:19:48 UTC