- From: Johannes Koch <johannes.koch@fit.fraunhofer.de>
- Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 12:33:37 +0200
- To: public-wai-ert@w3.org
Carlos Iglesias wrote: > > > Hello world, > > >><http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-type-vocabulary/>: >> The DCMI Type Vocabulary provides a general, cross-domain list of >> approved terms that may be used as values for the Resource Type >> element to identify the genre of a resource. >> >>If I read this correctly, this does not define classes but >>only a controlled vocabulary for values for the "type" >>property in <http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/>. So >>how can we replace earl:Software with this? > > > As far as my precarious RDF knowledge reach, I think this does define classes (as seen at [http://dublincore.org/2003/12/08/dctype]) > > <dcterms:DCMIType rdf:about="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Software"> > <rdfs:label xml:lang="en-US">Software</rdfs:label> > <rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/"/> > <rdfs:comment xml:lang="en-US">Software is a computer program in source or > compiled form which may be available for installation > non-transiently on another machine. For software which > exists only to create an interactive environment, use > interactive instead.</rdfs:comment> > <rdf:type rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#Class"/> This indicates that it is an RDF class, yes. It is a DCMIType defined by <dcterms:TypeScheme rdf:about="http://purl.org/dc/terms/DCMIType"> <rdfs:label xml:lang="en-US">DCMI Type Vocabulary</rdfs:label> <rdfs:comment xml:lang="en-US">A list of types used to categorize the nature or genre of the content of the resource.</rdfs:comment> <rdf:type rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#Class"/> <rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"/> <rdfs:seeAlso rdf:resource="http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-type-vocabulary/"/> <dcterms:issued>2000-07-11</dcterms:issued> <dcterms:modified>2002-06-15</dcterms:modified> <dc:type rdf:resource="http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/principles/#encoding-scheme"/> <dcterms:hasVersion rdf:resource="http://dublincore.org/usage/terms/history/#DCMIType-002"/> </dcterms:TypeScheme> A TypeScheme is defined by <rdfs:Class rdf:about="http://purl.org/dc/terms/TypeScheme"> <rdfs:label xml:lang="en-US">Resource Type Encoding Schemes</rdfs:label> <rdfs:comment xml:lang="en-US">A set of resource type encoding schemes and/or formats</rdfs:comment> <rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"/> <dcterms:issued>2000-07-11</dcterms:issued> <dcterms:references rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/type"/> </rdfs:Class> > They may be used as values for Resource Type, It's intended to be used as value for Resource Type. > but in fact they are classes that could be used elsewhere. And it has not properties we would be interested in, like name, version, etc. Is this a problem? -- Johannes Koch - Competence Center BIKA Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT.LIFE) Schloss Birlinghoven, D-53757 Sankt Augustin, Germany Phone: +49-2241-142628
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