Quoting Ben Companjen <[email protected]>:

The Work's
> record description, however, is not linked to the work description.
> Only to agents who interpret parts of the URI may the relationship
> between a frbr:Work and something identified by "http:// ... /about/"
> be clear.
> I think this may be solved by saying
> <rdf:Description rdf:about="">
> <dcterms:created>...</dcterms:created>
> <dcterms:modified>...</dcterms:modified>
> </rdf:Desciption>
> since rdf:about="" means 'about this document'.

That's a neat trick - I'll want to remember that. However, the  
created/modified refer to the OL record, so the /about/ bit was  
supposed to work like the /about/ of the 'cool uri' document. We use  
the OL URI to identify the Work not the record about the work, so we  
were struggling with a way to give information about the OL Work  
*record.*

That said, if it's clearer I don't see a reason not to use 'about this  
document'. I don't know of a case where it makes a difference.


>
> I committed an adaptation of the Work RDF template in my fork (this is
> my first day on Github, but I think I'm starting to get the hang of
> it), but I was not sure what other people think* about losing the
> trailing slash in Work and Edition URIs, so I left them in at first. I
> committed an additional change, that removes the trailing slashes.
> *: in the RDF improvement bug report,
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/openlibrary/+bug/703664, Karen says all
> URIs should end with "/".

Yes, some folks on this list when we were first developing the RDF  
felt strongly about that.

>
> Please have a look (if you can) at
> https://github.com/bencomp/openlibrary/blob/patch-1/openlibrary/plugins/openlibrary/templates/type/work/rdf.html
> and
> https://github.com/bencomp/openlibrary/blob/patch-1/openlibrary/plugins/openlibrary/templates/type/edition/rdf.html
> and comment on it. If all is okay, I will send a pull request.

Is there a way to test this without moving it into production? Also,  
there may be people using the RDF API and it would be good to give  
them notice before a change.

kc


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