Re: real-world usage of non-XSD data types?

On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 10:09 -0500, Bob DuCharme wrote: 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-query/#matchingRDFLiterals includes the 
> following sample data:
> 
>     @prefix dt: <http://example.org/datatype#> .
>     @prefix ns: <http://example.org/ns#> .
>     @prefix : <http://example.org/ns#> .
>     @prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
> 
>     :x   ns:p     "cat"@en .
>     :y   ns:p     "42"^^xsd:integer .
>     :z   ns:p     "abc"^^dt:specialDatatype .
> 
> Can anyone point me to real-world usage of non-xsd data types like the 
> "abc" example here?

Since it is recommend best-practice for skos:notation then I assume it
is used frequently in publishing Thesauri. It is certainly used when
skos:notation is used embedded in other models (e.g. the post codes in
Ordnance Survey data [1]) or when notation sub-properties are used (e.g.
the various codes which link the data.gov.uk transport data to the
original codes from the NAPTAN database [2]).

Dave

[1] http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/doc/postcodeunit/SO164GU.ttl

[2] http://transport.data.gov.uk/id/stop-point/0180BAC23439.ttl

Received on Monday, 10 January 2011 16:45:55 UTC