[foaf-dev] Time to make the foaf classes relate to Dublin Core classes?

[Mikael Nilsson]

Ah,

foaf:maker....

See http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/#term_maker

"For example, if the thing named by the URI
http://rdfweb.org/people/danbri/ has a foaf:maker that is a foaf:Person
whose foaf:name is 'Dan Brickley', we can conclude that
http://rdfweb.org/people/danbri/ has a dc:creator of 'Dan Brickley'. "

It seems to me that foaf:maker is now 100% identical to dcterms:creator
(with range dcterms:Agent).

Time to update that part....

Also, foaf:topic sounds like a candidate for being a subPropertyOf
dcterms:subject.

foaf:topic:
The foaf:topic property relates a document to a thing that the document
is about.

dcterms:subject:
http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#terms-subject:
The topic of the resource. This term is intended to be used with
non-literal values [...]

/Mikael





On ons, 2008-01-16 at 10:07 +0100, Mikael Nilsson wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Just this Monday, DCMI released [0] an updated set of term definitions
> [1] with new RDF schemas [2]. Among the terms are a number of classes
> that are now used as domains / ranges of DCMI properties [3].
> 
> This would be a good time to formally declare the relationships between
> the foaf classes and the DCMI classes. Off the top of my head, I can see
> relationships between:
> 
> FOAF			DC
> 
> foaf:Agent		dcterms:Agent: A resource that acts or has the power to act.
> 
> foaf:Image		dcmitype:Image: A visual representation other than text.
> 
> dcterms:Agent is now the range of dcterms:contributor and subproperties,
> so it would make an important connection between the two specs.
> 
> Actually, I would not think an owl:sameAs relations between the two
> pairs above would be wrong, but even a subClass would be useful.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> /Mikael
> 
> [0] http://dublincore.org/news/2008/#dcmi-news-20080114-01
> [1] http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
> [2] http://dublincore.org/schemas/rdfs/
> [3] http://dublincore.org/documents/domain-range/
> 
-- 
<mikael at nilsson.name>

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose