[foaf-dev] dc:creator vs foaf:maker

[Peter Williams]

As a non expert, mere "user", it comes across as a "my name is more viable =
than your name" playground statement, age 7.

Either the semweb is about everyone being peers in how they name things (wi=
th cited equivalencies, possibly )  or its not.

If the community in the core schema world is undermining the notion that al=
l names are equally valid (and certain naming schemas are not in fact more =
"valid" than others), we cannot expect folks to let semweb take off. SemWeb=
 has not broken out of the notion that there evn exists a "dominant" naming=
 doctrine - for any layer.

Speaking as a peon.




From: Axel Polleres
Sent: Sat 3/8/2008 2:04 PM
To: foaf-dev
Subject: [foaf-dev] dc:creator vs foaf:maker


Hi all,

What I read about foaf:maker vs. dc:creator at [1,2] seems to be =

outdated by the latest DCMI recommendations [3].

Also if you look at http://dblp.l3s.de/d2r/page/authors/Axel_Polleres, =

it seems that the D2R guys - somewhat ahead of their time ;-) -
already seem to use dc:creator like that, i.e. referring to URI =

identified resources directly.

for me personally it seems that one should deprecate foaf:maker and make =

it a subproperty of dc:creator.

Opinions?

Axel

1. http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/#term_maker
2. http://wiki.foaf-project.org/UsingDublinCoreCreator
3. http://dublincore.org/documents/dc-rdf/

-- =

Dr. Axel Polleres
email: axel at polleres.net  url: http://www.polleres.net/

rdfs:Resource owl:differentFrom xsd:anyURI .
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