I support Rob's suggestions to see what you can get out of FOAF before using RDA. But I realize you've had a hand in designing the RDA vocabulary, so it's understandable that you want to use it. Some comments inline below.
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 4:43 AM, Rob Styles <rob.sty...@talis.com> wrote: > I'd like to understand if you're modelling this as a person, or as a > "bibliographic entity" as obviously that has implications. Putting aside the > possible confusion of pen-names my preference would be to see the author > modelled as a person, or an organisation if a corporate author. This should > be shown as a type statement so we know which way OL goes. > > <http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL31800A> a foaf:Person ; > > If using foaf Person, it might be better to foaf:name for the name, foaf > doesn't include a variant name so you might need to invent that, or where > possible you could parse the name into family and given using the foaf > properties. I know, names are a can of worms. +1 for modelling as a foaf:Person > Having made Margaret a Person, it then wouldn't be right to say that she was > modified! You'd have to add in some data about the representation or dataset. > > <http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL31800A.rdf> dcterms:modified > "2010-04-12 12:42:10.448987" ; > dcterms:subject <http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL31800A> . > > That date would ideally be typed as well, so we can do date sorting: > > <http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL31800A.rdf> dcterms:modified > "2010-04-12 12:42:10.448987"^^xsd:Date ; > > It would also be good for the date of birth to be formatted and typed as an > xsd:Date: > > <http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL31800A.rdf> rdg2:dateOfBirth > "1936-03-21"^^xsd:Date ; +1 for using xsd:Date. If I were doing it I would probably model the birth using bio:Birth: <http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL31800A.rdf> bio:event [a bio:Birth ; bio:date 1936-03-21"^^xsd:Date] . It's a bit more work to create a event resource, but I think it's worth at least trying to do. It is particularly handy when attaching additional information, like where the person was born, etc. > A further implication of making Margaret a Person is that you can't use > bibo:uri, bibo says that things with a uri are either a Document or a > Collection, and those are not compatible with also being a Person. Also, uri > probably isn't the right term to describe the 'aboutness' of a page. I did > think foaf had topicOf, but I can't see it in the spec - but something like > > <http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL31800A> foaf:topicOf > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Mahy> Couldn't you use: <http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL31800A> foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Mahy> . > Note, the uri is treated as a resource in RDF so goes in <> rather than > quotes. > > I'm not sure what you mean by: > > rdg2:identifierForThePerson "/authors/OL31800A" ; > > isn't the full uri <http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL31800A> the identifier > for the person? Similar confusion here. I could see this sort of information being important in a non-rdf serialization though. //Ed _______________________________________________ Ol-tech mailing list Ol-tech@archive.org http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to ol-tech-unsubscr...@archive.org
