Re: silly question about rdf:about

Sean,

> Sean B. Palmer:
> > Nikita Ogievetsky:
> > If anybody thinks that way then it is not me.
> > What I am saying is that given a statement like this:
> >
> > http://uche.ogbuji.net :characteristics :very-interesting
> >
> > will leave many people puzzled whether I mean that
> > you are a very interesting person or that your website
> > is definitely worth looking at. :-)
>
> Well, you could just add an extra triple:-
>
>    <http://uche.ogbuji.net/> a :Interesting, :Person .
>    [or] <http://uche.ogbuji.net/> a :Interesting, :Website .

This will not work if I have web document about a web document.
EARL is a good example here.
In other words in RDF Topic Maps I can say:
Uche:
  rtm:/indicatedBy <http://uche.ogbuji.net/>;
  :created [
    rtm:/constitutedBy <http://uche.ogbuji.net/>;
    rtm:/indicatedBy
<http://www.web-analysis.org/analysis-of-uche.ogbuji.net.html>
  ].

The part that would not work is the last 2 triples:
You need to say
    rtm:/constitutedBy <http://uche.ogbuji.net/>;
    rtm:/indicatedBy
<http://www.web-analysis.org/analysis-of-uche.ogbuji.net.html>
In order to not confuse it with:

    rtm:/indicatedBy <http://uche.ogbuji.net/>;
    rtm:/constitutedBy
<http://www.web-analysis.org/analysis-of-uche.ogbuji.net.html>

> this is also being discussed on www-tag as the "range of HTTP
> issue". It's a real practical problem, and something that we had
> to get round in the EARL [1] project. The way that we did it was
> to always create a new (possibly anonymous) node with a predicate
> linking it to the resource:-
>
>    [ :creatorOf <http://uche.ogbuji.net/>; a :Interesting ] .
>    [or] [ :documentAt <http://uche.ogbuji.net/>; a :Interesting ]

The only problem is that Uche is not just a creator, he is the *subject* of
that website.

> See also TimBL's Interpretation Properties [2] article.

Aha! Looks like TimBL is also into Topic Maps into RDF mapping.
Sad that Topic Maps are not being mentioned.

Attempts 2 and 3 are just forms of Topic Maps baseName representation in
RDF.
Let me copy and paste...

Attempt 2
<rdf:description>
   <rdf:type resource="http://www.people.org/types#person" />
   <play:name rdf:parseType="Resource">
       <rdf:value>Ora Yrjö Uolevi Lassila</rdf:value>
       <play:lang>fi</play:lang>
    </play:name>
   <play:mailbox resource="mailto:ora.lassila@research.nokia.com"/>
   <play:homePage resource="http://www.w3.org/People/Lassila">
</rdf:description>

Attempt 3
<rdf:description>
   <rdf:type>http://www.people.org/types#person</a>
   <play:name>
       <lang:fi>Ora Yrjö Uolevi Lassila</lang:fi>
    </play:name>
   <play:mailbox>ora.lassila@research.nokia.com</play:mailbox>
   <play:homePage>http://www.w3.org/People/Lassila/</play:homepage>
</rdf:description>

And here is Topic Map:
<topic>
 <instanceOf><topicRef xlink:href="http://www.people.org/types#person" />
 <baseName>

<scope><topicRef=http://www.topicmaps.org/xtm/1.0/language.xtm#fi/></scope>
   <baseNameString>Ora Yrjö Uolevi Lassila</baseNameString>
 </baseName>
 <occurrence>
   <instanceOf><topicRef xlink:href="#mailbox"/></instanceOf>
   <resourceRef xlink:href="mailto:ora.lassila@research.nokia.com"/>
 </occurrence>
 <occurrence>
   <instanceOf><topicRef xlink:href="#homePage "/></instanceOf>
   <resourceRef xlink:href="http://www.w3.org/People/Lassila"/>
 </occurrence>
</topic>

> [1] http://www.w3.org/2001/03/earl/
> [2] http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/InterpretationProperties

--Nikita.

Received on Monday, 8 April 2002 10:41:44 UTC