On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 6:01 AM, Hugh Glaser<[email protected]> wrote: > For the record ( © Alan!). > I consider it bad practice to keep the knowledge about linking in the same KB > as the substantive knowledge you are representing. > You need two KBs: one for the knowledge you are publishing, and one for the > linkage you are working on.
Well, this might help. > These have very different provenance, maintenance patterns, etc.. > And you can include a link from URIs that you generate to the linkage KB. > > In fact, this would then help Alan's problem about sameAs:- he could simply > decide not to get your view of the linkage, whereas with sameAs in the > resources he has no choice but to accept your view, and even your predicate > when he resolves a URI or queries the SPARQL. Yup. Course I would recommend far and wide that *everybody* ignored it :) > > And I do agree with you about minting URIs to your local stuff, including > authors; it is error-prone to try to re-use things like dbpedia for this, on > any scale. And this is why you need to tackle the linkage problem as a > separate engineering activity. Error prone for exactly what purpose? Recall that I didn't rule out having one's own resources, just saying that they are the same as something else. If you have a resource that has information *about* an author, by all means publish it. But don't say it is the author. That's just wrong. Did you read the modifications I made to the recipe? There was a link to a web page about the author that would be (if the suggestion was followed) be referenced from the rdf. -Alan > > Best > Hugh > > (Of course I do have some software and architecture that supports separate > linkage KBs (our CRS) so I would say this, but nevertheless I think it is the > correct engineering approach, however it is done. Separation of Concerns.) > > On 28/07/2009 02:23, "Eric Lease Morgan" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Jul 25, 2009, at 5:09 AM, Bill Roberts wrote: > >> Regarding linking to external resources, what it seems you want >> to do is to identify the dc:creator of the book, hence say that >> the creator is the person whose name was Thomas More. You could >> create your own URI and if you are managing a whole bunch of data >> about books and authors, then there could be reasons to do that, >> but in general if there is a satisfactory existing URI, it is >> preferable to use it. Dbpedia seems to have become the de facto >> standard... > > > Okay, then how's this for a recipe to create rich linked data of > electronic books and authors within my own site as well as to the > outside world: > > 1. Mint URIs pointing to representations of local etexts > 2. Mint URIs pointing to representations of authors of local etexts > > 3. In resources of etexts, include owl:sameAs links to DBpedia > resources > 4. In resources of etexts, point to local URIs of authors > > 5. In resources of authors, include owl:sameAs links to DBpedia > resources > 6. In resources of authors, include owl:creatorOf links to local > etexts > > 7. For extra credit, do the same thing for subjects/keywords > > For example, the following resource descriptions: > > <!-- etext #1; points to local author and remote title --> > <rdf:RDF > xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"; > xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"; > xmlns:owl="http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#";> > <rdf:Description > rdf:about="http://infomotions.com/etexts/id/more-utopia-221"; > owl:sameAs="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Utopia_(book)"> > <dcterms:title>Utopia</dcterms:title> > <dcterms:creator > rdf:resource="http://infomotions.com/etexts/authors/resource/thomas-more > " /> > </rdf:Description> > </rdf:RDF> > > > <!-- etext #2; points to local author and remote title --> > <rdf:RDF > xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"; > xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"; > xmlns:owl="http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#";> > <rdf:Description > rdf:about="http://infomotions.com/etexts/id/more-reality-404"; > owl:sameAs="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Reality_(book)"> > <dcterms:title>Reality</dcterms:title> > <dcterms:creator > rdf:resource="http://infomotions.com/etexts/authors/resource/thomas-more > " /> > </rdf:Description> > </rdf:RDF> > > > <!-- author; points to local etexts and remote author --> > <rdf:RDF > xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"; > xmlns:owl="http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#";> > <rdf:Description > rdf:about="http://infomotions.com/etexts/authors/resource/thomas-more > " > owl:sameAs="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Thomas_More";> > <owl:creatorOf > rdf:resource="http://infomotions.com/etexts/id/more-utopia-221 > "/> > <owl:creatorOf > rdf:resource="http://infomotions.com/etexts/id/more-reality-404 > " /> > </rdf:Description> > </rdf:RDF> > > -- > Eric Lease Morgan > > > > > > >
