Amico Corpus

• From: Butler, Mark <Mark_Butler@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
• Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 17:42:32 +0100
• To: www-rdf-dspace@w3.org
• Message-ID: <5E13A1874524D411A876006008CD059F066A1EBE@0-mail-1.hpl.hp.com>

Hi Team,

I've been looking at the sample Amico data and there is a problem with the
way that owner is encoded

<Paintings rdf:about = "WMAA.70.1650">
  <Title>(Self-Portrait)</Title>
  <owner>
   <Organization rdf:about =
"http://www.amico.org/laf/entities/whitney_museum_of_american_art">
    <name>Whitney Museum of American Art</name>
    <place>New York, New York, USA</place>
    <credit>Josephine N. Hopper Bequest</credit>
    <accessionNumber rdf:resource = "70.1650" />
   </Organization>
  </owner>
</Paintings>

when several of these records are merged, the relationship between the
painting and the accessionNumber is lost, because accessionNumber is a
property of
http://www.amico.org/laf/entities/whitney_museum_of_american_art, not the
painting. 

There are two alternative ways of encoding this to avoid this:

<Paintings rdf:about = "WMAA.70.1650">
  <Title>(Self-Portrait)</Title>
  <owner>
   <Owner>
    <ownerIdentity>
     <Organization rdf:about =
"http://www.amico.org/laf/entities/whitney_museum_of_american_art">
      <name>Whitney Museum of American Art</name>
      <place>New York, New York, USA</place>
      <credit>Josephine N. Hopper Bequest</credit>
     </Organization>
    </ownerIdentity>
    <accessionNumber rdf:resource = "70.1650" />
   </Owner>
  </owner>
</Paintings>

or alternatively

<Paintings rdf:about = "WMAA.70.1650">
  <Title>(Self-Portrait)</Title>
  <accessionObject>
	<AccessionNumber>
	 <organization
rdf:resource="http://www.amico.org/laf/entities/whitney_museum_of_american_a
rt"/>
	 <accessionNumber rdf:resource = "70.1650"/>
      </AccessionNumber>
 </accessionObject>
  <owner>
   <Organization rdf:about =
"http://www.amico.org/laf/entities/whitney_museum_of_american_art">
    <name>Whitney Museum of American Art</name>
    <place>New York, New York, USA</place>
    <credit>Josephine N. Hopper Bequest</credit>
   </Organization>
  </owner>
</Paintings>

Obviously the class and property names (owner, Owner, ownerIdentity and
Organization in the first example and accessionObject, AccessionNumber,
organization and accessionNumber in the second) can be tweaked. Does anybody
have a preference or any other suggestions?

thanks, best regards

Dr Mark H. Butler
Research Scientist                HP Labs Bristol
mark-h_butler@hp.com
Internet: http://www-uk.hpl.hp.com/people/marbut/

Received on Monday, 1 September 2003 12:57:36 UTC