* pkeane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-06 20:10]: > And I am guessing that if I use RDF intelligently I might be > able to 'dereference' a piece of metadata as its equivalence in > whatever schema context pertains to that particular > dereferencing operation. In other words, I want to set up a > (potentially dynamic) one-to-many relationship with a 'key' and > it's equivalence out there in the wider information ecosystem.
Take a look at OWL’s sameAs property. You can use that to establish that two different properties in RDF mean the same thing. It’s only a partial answer though – it works only when the values of the properties follow the exact same rules. But it’s at least something. (OWL defines more properties to deal with subtler mappings, but I’m not well versed in it, and when I hear RDF-heads talk, they only ever mention sameAs, so I have no opinion on how useful the other stuff is.) Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
