On Jun 22, 2005, at 12:06 PM, Pete Johnston wrote:
> Sean Fulton said:
>
>
>> I want to include references to related documents that don't fit any
>> of the refined terms for the relation element. The type of
>> document I want to reference have complementary information.
>> They would be used in "see also" sort of way.
>>
>> Is this appropriate use for the relation element?
>>
>
> It could be, yes.
>
> A statement using the dc:relation property just says, "There is some
> unspecified type of relationship between the subject resource and the
> value resource"
>
> It is not limited to the "superset" of the "refinements" of
> dc:relation,
> if you see what I mean.
>
> Also, there are other properties around that are used more
> specifically
> to express "see also" in the sense of "That-resource-over-there
> will or
> may provide more information about this-resource-here". See e.g.
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-schema/#ch_seealso
Thanks very much, Pete. That clears it up.
On a related note. Do DC terms take any standard attributes? Ideally,
I'd like to do something like:
<dc:relation title="A Document">http://www.example.com/
document.html</dc:relation>
Or would I have to define attributes myself?
Sean
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