On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Mikael Nilsson wrote:
>> Under item 2, I will therefore suggest that we consider replicating all the
>> current terms in the DC namespace into the DCTERMS namespace (allowing the
>> use of a single namespace by many DC applications), using RDFS to
>> explciitly declare equivalences between the old DC terms and the new
>> DCTERMS terms.
>
> All well and good, except that RDFS does not contain any such mechanisms.
> Except possibly for mutual subProperty relations? Is that a good idea? Or
> should we use OWL?
Yes, sorry, I meant to say "using some combination of RDFS and OWL to
explicitly decalre equivalences...".
Andy
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