Friends

Still working on converting our ancient (i.e. 20th century) databases to 
something more current, I still have problems :-(

My records for the statements with literal objects have (of course) the fields:

•   subject id
•   predicate id
•   object (string/number/date/XMLLiteral)

Besides I have:

•   syntaxEncodingScheme (for the string/XMLLiteral-statements)
•   P91-has_unit (for the number-statements, in case they are dimensions :-)
•   P72-has_language (for the string-statements)

Moreover, in order to keep under control the proliferation of subproperties, I 
added:

•   predicate type id (of the ".1 P2" kind)
•   object type id (also of ".1 P2" kind)

In this image

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B33eKhOVEE6-aEhMNFRIOTVDaWs/edit

I show (as an example) 3 alternative ways of avoiding the specialisation of 
P78-is_identified_by. 
I find merits for each but I'm in doubt.

What do you think is preferable ? Should I judge on a case-by-case basis ? Or 
something different would be better ? 

Is "object type id" useless ? What if I want to say that a string-object is a 
transliteration ?

Thanks,

Dan

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Dan Matei
director, Direcția Cercetare, Evidență a Patrimoniului Cultural Mobil, 
Imaterial și Digital [Movable, Intangible and 
Digital Heritage Department] (aka CIMEC)
Institutul Național al Patrimoniului [National Heritage Institute], București 
[Bucharest, Romania]
tel. (+4)021 317 90 72; fax (+4)021 317 90 64, www.cimec.ro


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