Some of this is fundamental understanding of what I want to do eventually. I want to move to doing a Genealogy application for a client. We can use the name spaces foaf, bio and rel, as well as geo, and some others. For practice I wanted to be able to learn this by looking at a foaf.rdf file that I created by hand and try to do it using TBC. Then I can get all the foaf files created in TBC. So, the challenge was with the regard to the above, and with your explanation, I would create the resource that is equal to my blog's URL. Then I want to say that the resource has a dc:title. I think the difficulty is that I am looking at the documentation and I keep finding information about creating ontologies. I'm at the point of using an ontology or several to create a triple store in rdf, or in this case, specifically a foaf file.
This is another related issue. I thought I got an error when I tried to work with more than one file in a project but that doesn't make sense. Maybe one should only have one file in a project open at one time. I was using this naming convention when creating files, which seems to be ok: http://personalprofiles.fwwebdev.com/BruceWhealton/foaf.rdf and http://personalprofiles.fwwebdev.com/JeanArthurJones/foaf.rdf I did notice that the second file when I created that, did not have the same imports or all the imports that the first one did. For a large community it wouldn't make sense to put everyone in one foaf file. Someone on this board said the same thing. It would be interesting to be able to use xsl to convert the rdf file for html output so that people could see and browse different profiles. So, for now, I'm looking at expanded foaf files that include other ontologies. I will also do this for all my web development clients so that they can contribute to the Semantic Web and as part of my training that I am pursuing. Thanks, Bruce On Jul 26, 7:40 pm, "Irene Polikoff" <[email protected]> wrote: > Bruce, > > To add a statement about a resource (with the resource as a subject) you > need to first declare that it (the resource) exists. To do this, you need to > create a triple of the following pattern: > > ?resource rdf:type ?someClass > > If resource <http://futurewavedesigns.com/wordpress> is a foaf:Document, > then you need to create a triple: > > <http://futurewavedesigns.com/wordpress> rdf:type foaf:Document > > Once you do this, you will be able to navigate to this resource and say > whatever you want about it. > > To do this, select foaf:Document and click on Add new in the Instance view. > When a Create foaf:Document dialog appears, enter > <http://futurewavedesigns.com/wordpress> in the "Name of the new instance" > field. > > You will now see it in the list of instances for foaf:Document and will be > able to drag and drop it, place it into the basket and you will be able to > select it from the Add Existing dialogs when editing. You will not be able > to do auto-complete on it and if you try to ctrl Click on it in one of the > form fields, TopBraid will try to navigate to it on the web. > > You could define a prefixhttp://futurewavedesigns.com/in the file you are > editing and call it let's say future, then you should be able to switch > between a full URI of this resource and its QName future:wordpress and you > will be able to do auto-completion, etc. > > I am not sure what you mean by "relative to my main project". I am also not > sure if the above helps you to do what you are trying to do. I find some of > your questions hard to understand, so we probably are not quite on the same > page. > > May be if you explained what you are trying to do with all these foaf file, > how you are planning to use/deploy them, it would help to achieve some > shared understanding. > > Regards, > > Irene > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of brucewhealton > Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 5:58 PM > To: TopBraid Suite Users > Subject: [topbraid-users] Stuck with a type of entry using TBC forms > > Hello, > So, I've not been able to figure out how to handle a special > case when using the forms to enter data. Suppose I have this in my > foaf profile: > > <foaf:Person rdf:about="#me"> > <foaf:weblog rdf:resource="http://futurewavedesigns.com/ > wordpress/" dc:title="Web Technology Blog" /> > ... > </foaf:Person> > > So, I can enter into the form under foaf:weblog the url above. But > how do I associate the title with that resource? > The second triple will be: > <http://futurewavedesigns.com/wordpress./> > <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/title > > "Web Technology Blog" > > When I try to go into the source code using TBC, and put that first > full statement that links to the weblog it doesn't update when i > return to the form. If I try to create a new Document object it will > still be setup as relative to my main project. > This kind of thing will exist in various similar places where I want > to use Object resources. All of the documentation seems to be with > regard to creating Object datatypes when you are defining the ontology > not when one is working with instance data. > Maybe I need a blank node that says that the url is a weblog it has > such and such title and then in the document I'd link to the node? > I'm not sure how to do that though. > Thanks, > Bruce > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Group "TopBraid Suite Users", the topics of which include TopBraid Composer, > TopBraid Live, TopBraid Ensemble, SPARQLMotion and SPIN. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/topbraid-users?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Group "TopBraid Suite Users", the topics of which include TopBraid Composer, TopBraid Live, TopBraid Ensemble, SPARQLMotion and SPIN. 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