On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 08:43:55AM +0100, Pete Johnston wrote:
> I must admit I find rdfs:isDefinedBy somewhat slippery, but there's a
> useful thread over in www-rdf-interest (mostly about the formation of
> namespace names/URIs) but see especially:
Thank you!
> If that relationship between resource and namespace is not expressed
> explicitly, it is not visible in the RDF model. I think it is certainly
> useful to have that relationship visible as a means of grouping terms.
> (FWIW, I think it would be extremely dangerous to try to do this on the
> basis of substrings of URIs. If it begins with "http://purl.org/dc/terms/"
> then....)
>
> So it seems a Good Thing to use rdfs:isDefinedBy in this way. I think I'd
> suggest the pointer to a prose specification should be an rdfs:seeAlso
> relationship.
Yes!
> But I must admit I would appreciate some clearer guidance on use of
> rdfs:isDefinedBy.
Yes again!
Tom
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