[rdfweb-dev] knows, vs rel vs xxx

Ian Davis iand at internetalchemy.org
Fri Sep 19 11:05:32 UTC 2003


Julian Bond wrote:
> There are words in here that I don't understand ;-) But I think I 
> understand what you're getting at. And I think the approach will break if:-
> 1) The relationship schema doesn't exist in rdf form or
> 2) Someone starts adding relationships that don't exist in the schema
> I believe there are multiple examples of both problems in the wild.
If there isn't an RDF schema then how does one know rel:parent is a 
subproperty of foaf:knows in the first place? Half joking because I 
understand the point you're trying to get across.

BTW, Eric does provide an RDF schema for his relationships vocabulary: 
http://www.perceive.net/schemas/20021119/relationship/relationship.rdf

Ian





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