use cases

Hello again - 

I guess my question about subclassing vocabularies that I don't maintain was 
either too clueless or too complex - so, here is a simpler question. I'm 
working on an article for Linux Journal that will be titled something like 
'Are We There Yet?  Semantic Technologies for the Web Developer'  (it was 
originally just about RDFa, but we've expanded the scope some).

Say I want to express in RDF a statement like the following:
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"The Az Sonora Desert Museum serves shade grown-coffee, which supports 
ecological diversity as per Win-Win Ecology by Mike Rosenzweig."
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I can use wikipedia or other authoritative URIs for the entities and concepts 
like the Desert Museum, shade-grown coffee, ecological diversity, and the 
book.  The question is which vocab's to use for the verbs - serves, supports, 
and 'as per' -  and can I use reification or do I have to invent a tortured 
class that owns its own caveats?  bagID would seem useful for this but its 
deprecated?

Here's another statement, that definitely needs non-authoritative expression 
as its quite controversial:
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"David O'Reilly, CEO of Chevron, hasResponsibilityFor the Burma military 
regime because of Chevron's involvement in the Yadana oil field"
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How do I find the right vocabulary to express this statement?  And for others 
to agree and disagree with it, what is the best way to give it its own URI or 
other identifier so other statements can be made about this statement?

I think that in the mucky real world, making and responding to statements of 
this type of complexity would be useful.  Should we just stick to English or 
our other native tongue?

--Golda


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