Re: General assertions in RDF (Do we always have to be specific?)

Stan,

You need to figure out how you want to structure your entities. AFAIK 
there is no implied semantic meaning in any of RDF, RDF just makes 
statements about resources and their properties.

For example you could:

<rdf:Description rdf:about="http://www.google.com"
	dc:Rights="Copyright 2005 Google Inc"/>

But what do the semantics of this really mean?

Are you making a statement about some RDF resource whose URI is 
"http://www.google.com"?
Is the statement about the website at that URL?
Is it about the corporation called "Google"?

You'd probably be better off considering something like:

<rdf:Bag rdf:about="http://yoururl/coprightholders">
   <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://yoururl/coprightholders?cid=google"/>
</rdf:Bag>

<rdf:Description rdf:about="http://yoururl/coprightholders?cid=google">
  <dc:Creator>Google Inc.</dc:Creator>
  <urn:website>http://www.google.com</urn:website>
  <dc:Rights>"Copyright 2005 Google Inc"</dc:Rights>
  <vCard:Locality rdf:resource="http://someurl#Denver"/>
</rdf:Description>


Neil




Stan James wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Is there a way to encode _general_ statements in RDF? Statements like:
> - "All pages from google.com are copyright by Google, Inc."
> - "Pages from http://craiglist.org/denver/* are about Denver?"
> 
> I tried the following, but I doubt it's valid RDF, and Firefox choked
> on it:
> 
>   <item RDF:about="http://*.craigslist.org/denver/*"
> dc:subject="denver" />
> 
> I'm trying to switch my application's data representation from
> homegrown XML to RDF, but I can't find a clean way to record this sort
> of general data.
> 
> Any RDF experts out there know a way, a workaround, or if it's possible
> at all?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> -stan
>