Hello, Walker -- It depends on how you plan to use the RDF relationships. Will you be doing queries against the resource index to retrieve objects that have this relationship? If so, will you need to distinguish, either now or in the future, between objects that are part of a donor relationship and other objects with a "hasRelation" relationship? If the answer to these question is "yes", then you'll want to use a different, more exact relationship.
There's nothing to prevent you from using relationships from different RDF schemas in your triples, or even making up your own (namespaced) relationships yourself and using those; in fact, it's a quite common practice among Fedora maintainers. Here's an example of a homegrown RDF schema we wrote for some homegrown relationships: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/rdf/1.0/relations -- Scott On 05/14/2011 02:04 PM, Walker Sampson wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a question regarding the best use of Fedora relationship ontology. I > need to designate a 'donor' relationship between two Fedora objects (an item > and a donator). I haven't found namespaces with this specific property > detailed, but a generic 'hasRelation' property would also suffice. > > To that end, would it be advisable to use the primitive property > 'fedoraRelationship' to note such a relation? I understand that all the more > descriptive properties are a subtype of this one, but would it work to > simply have this property note the relation between an item and donator as a > basic object-to-object relation? > > Thank you, > Walker > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability > What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. > Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools > to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay > > > > _______________________________________________ > Fedora-commons-users mailing list > Fedora-commons-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fedora-commons-users -- Scott Prater Library, Instructional, and Research Applications (LIRA) Division of Information Technology (DoIT) University of Wisconsin - Madison pra...@wisc.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Fedora-commons-users mailing list Fedora-commons-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fedora-commons-users
