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

[Axel Polleres]

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

not sure what you are rferring to, I am not referring to identifiers on 
the web, this is a different issue and of course I am aware of that ;-)
  I was referring to basically whether dc:creator should be used as an 
objectproperty or as a mere datatypeproperty.

the current foaf spec gives a clear recommendation in that (see [1,2])
whereas the new DMCI spec seems to treat this issue differently in a way 
that does seem to make a separate foaf:maker property no longer necessary.

Axel

> Either the semweb is about everyone being peers in how they name things 
> (with cited equivalencies, possibly )  or its not.
>  
> If the community in the core schema world is undermining the notion that 
> all 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 outdated by the latest DCMI recommendations [3].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/
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Dr. Axel Polleres
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