RE: context of dc:identifier

Reto said:

> if the datatype is the context, and given that two literals 
> with different datatypes cannot be equals (not sure if this 
> is true for custom datatypes) dc:identifiers is an 
> owl:inverseFunctionalProperty, right?

I'm not sure that's the case. I think DCMI is pretty vague about what it means by "context" here ;-)

But generally I think

doc:x dc:identifier "12345" .

and

doc:y dc:identifier "12345" .

is not - in the global "context" - sufficient to conclude that doc:x and doc:y are the same resource, and that holds even with a typed literal as object.

That's always been my assumption, anyway.

Pete
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Received on Wednesday, 5 September 2007 12:45:40 UTC