Re: Linking an RDF instance to its RDF Schema

m batsis wrote:

> On Monday 18 November 2002 00:56, Frank Manola wrote:
> 
> 
>>If you have rdf:type properties in your instances, their values should
>>be URIs that identify Class resources in your schema.  User-defined
>>properties in the instance data should be (after QName resolution) URIs
>>that identify Property resources in your schema.  
>>
> 
> In the above case, are the URIs locators or identifiers?


They are pure identifiers, unless you're also following a convention 
(not required by RDF) that the namespace URI also locates the schema 
(see my followup message to Mike Daconta).

 
--Frank


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