RE: Wiki page on Goals

> The problem with a hypothetical DatatypeProperty called creatorFoo
> is that we wouldn't want to say that a literal string created
> something.
> Rather, the intention would be to say that the creator has a name,
> and the name is represented by a literal string.  In other words,
> creatorFoo would need to be something like a "shortcut property":
> "Resource has creator X, which has foaf:name Y".

Specifying creatorFoo (e.g. creatorLabel) as rdfs:subPropertyOf
rdfs:label (or skos:prefLabel) should make it clear this property is a
label for the creator rather than the creator itself. This could be
reinforced in the human documentation of the property. Here's the basic
idea:

ex:doc1 
	x-dcterms:creatorLabel "William Shakespeare" ;
	x-dcterms:creatorRef ex:shakespeare . # and/or

ex:shakespeare an x-dcterms:Agent ;
	rdfs:label "William Shakespeare" . # skos:prefLabel should be
even better

You could recommend skos:inScheme on the ex:shakespeare resource to
indicate "authority control". This suggests it might be tempting to use
skos:Concept as the range for all ObjectProperties to minimize the
ontological commitment. This would allow others to use foaf:focus to
model reality as they see fit.

Jeff

> There are precedents for this -- e.g., foaf:schoolHomepage, which has
a
> domain of foaf:Person, is a shortcut for "person has school, school
> has homepage".
> 
> > If this was done for all elements, then something like
> > <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> could be migrated to an owl:Ontology. I
> > assume the asymmetry of subject/subjectRef vs. creator/creatorVal
> would
> > be too discouraging for upgrading dcterms in place. If dcterms was
> > frozen, though, and development shifted to a rebranded DC-OWL with
> > subjectVal/subjectRef out-of-the-box, it might not be too onerous.
> 
> I'm bookmarking these ideas to suggest for future discussion
> in the DCMI Usage Board...
> 
> Tom
> 
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Thomas Baker [mailto:thomasbaker49@googlemail.com] On Behalf
> Of
> > > Thomas Baker
> > > Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 12:45 PM
> > > To: Young,Jeff (OR)
> > > Cc: Emmanuelle Bermes; Mark van Assem; public-xg-lld
> > > Subject: Re: Wiki page on Goals
> > >
> > > Hi Jeff,
> > >
> > > On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 12:27:54PM -0500, Jeff Young wrote:
> > > > The OWL solution would be for DC to coin owl:DatatypeProperties
> and
> > > > owl:ObjectProperties as rdfs:subPropertyOf of their existing
> > > > rdf:Properties. As distasteful as that is, I assume that rules-
> based
> > > > alternatives will be ignored.
> > >
> > > DCMI has already declared http://purl.org/dc/terms/creator with
> > > a range of dcterms:Agent, and it is indeed a sub-property of
> > > http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/creator (the property which
> > > is _probably_ intended in the example below because the /1.1/
> > > namespace is most commonly bound to the dc: prefix).  I'd like
> > > to understand better what specific advantage DCMI would gain
> > > by declaring it as an owl:ObjectProperty as opposed to leaving
> > > it as an RDF property with a resource class as its range.
> > >
> > > You are not the first person to propose this, but in order
> > > to progress this proposal, DCMI would need to have a clear
> > > understanding of the benefits, and whether the interpretation
> > > of existing data would be at all negatively impacted by the
> > > change.
> > >
> > > Tom
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Jeff
> > > >
> > > > > Another question about RELATE(existing) :
> > > > > relationships may exist in the data but be totally implicit.
If
> > you
> > > > > make them explicit, is it a new relationship, or an existing
> one ?
> > > > > Example (very simplified) :
> > > > >
> > > > > (implicit relationship)
> > > > > http://example.com/book1 dc:creator "J.R.R. Tolkien"
> > > > > http://example.com/book2 dc:creator "J.R.R.Tolkien"
> > > > > http://viaf.org/viaf/95218067 foaf:name "Tolkien, J.R.R. (John
> > > Ronald
> > > > > Reuel), 1892-1973"
> > > > >
> > > > > (same relationship made explicit)
> > > > > http://example.com/book1 dc:creator
> http://viaf.org/viaf/95218067
> > > > > http://example.com/book2 dc:creator
> http://viaf.org/viaf/95218067
> > > > > http://viaf.org/viaf/95218067 foaf:name "Tolkien, J.R.R. (John
> > > Ronald
> > > > > Reuel), 1892-1973"
> > > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Thomas Baker <tbaker@tbaker.de>
> > >
> >
> >
> 
> --
> Thomas Baker <tbaker@tbaker.de>
>

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