Erik, would you mind taking another look? I think I fixed the mix-up  
between manifestation and work. I still haven't tried to use  
intervening expressions since I'm not sure about the URI issue.

Thanks,
kc

Quoting Erik Hetzner <[email protected]>:

> At Tue, 09 Nov 2010 10:05:07 -0800,
> Karen Coyle wrote:
>>
>> Quoting Erik Hetzner <[email protected]>:
>>
>> > At Mon, 08 Nov 2010 09:17:47 -0800,
>>
>> >>
>> >
>> > As I parse it, we have here the triples (in almost-turtle):
>> >
>> >   W <http://vocab.org/frbr/core.html#Manifestation> M1, M2, M3, ... .
>> >   M1 a <http://rdvocab.info/RDARelationshipsWEMI/workManifested> .
>> >
>> > I think it should be:
>> >
>> >   W <http://rdvocab.info/RDARelationshipsWEMI/workManifested> M1,
>> > M2, M3, ... .
>> >   M1 a <http://vocab.org/frbr/core.html#Manifestation> .
>> >
>> > Is that correct?
>>
>> I admit that I am not sure. It could be:
>>
>> X is a work manifested by Y
>>
>> or
>>
>> Y manifests (workManifested) X
>>
>> The RDA description is: "A work embodied in a manifestation." That
>> would seem to make Work the subject, except that RDA was not written
>> with triples in mind, so the directionality isn't necessarily
>> conscious in the definition. But note that it says that the domain
>> of the property is Manifestation. That almost makes it seem like
>> it's a relationship between two manifestations. I once asked on the
>> RDA list what it meant and got two opposing answers. I'll happily go
>> with whatever can be generally agreed on! It isn't entirely clear to
>> me.
>
> Hi Karen,
>
> What I meant to be getting at is that the rdf:type of the resources
> M1, M2, ... is (currently) workManifested, while the predicate linking
> W and M1, M2, ... is frbr:Manifestation. I think this is backwards;
> they rdf:type should be frbr:Manifestation, while the predicate should
> be workManifested.
>
> As to which direction workManifested points, or its domain or range, I
> have no clue, but I assume you are correct here.
>
> best, Erik
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