\Mikael wrote:
> The DC metamodel is based on a resource-property-value model, much like
> RDF.
> LOM is based on a containment model (elements contain elements that
> contain elements, etc.). There is no explicit resource-property-value
> semantics in this model. This makes the LOM metamodel very close to the
> XML model.
I'm not quite sure, whether i understand this correctly.
Do you mean non-global elements/attributes are used and no URIref
binding for properties/classes exists?
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> LOM therefore maps easily to XML. The mapping can essentially be made
> algorithmically by mapping the metamodel to XML.
>
> The same is true for the DC->RDF mapping. By mapping the metamodel
> constructs to RDF, the rest follows automatically (more or less).
more or less ....
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> But mapping LOM to RDF, or trying to combine LOM and DC elements by
> aligning the LOM elements with the DC metamodel, mut be done on an
> element-by-element basis, as the metamodels do not match.
QName/URIref problem?
> So each
> element must be analyzed and mapped in an idiosyncratic way.
>
> I could give many examples from the LOM-RDF binding, but I'll stop here.
So there a faithful embedding to (a semantic extension of) RDF(S) has been defined?
Need more input...
rs
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> /Mikael
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> Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
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