Re: [foaf-dev] FOAF and other Libraries for Publications and writing

Interesting question -- I don't know of anyone coding actual documents  
(much less poems) in RDF. I suspect that you CDATA block may have to  
do, but it would be nice to have a format that articulates lines,  
verses, and whatever else is significant in poems.

kc

Quoting Bruce Whealton <bruce-IKflticWDqMk+I/[email protected]>:

> Thanks, Karen.  Any idea about included poems inside the RDF?  I  
> think if they are short this can work.  I was thinking that
> maybe a CDATA block would be used inside RDF/XML and then maybe line  
> breaks. Or maybe html.
> Bruce
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Karen Coyle
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>
> There are a number of existing ontologies to describe publications. It
> might be best to use those, or to make an ontological relationship
> between FOAF and something like BIBO. DC has many of the properties,
> but I often see uses of http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/isbn. DC
> "extent" is for pages, although that doesn't actually specify that it
> is pages and not something else, like bytes or minutes. BIBO is more
> precise, with "numPages" "pageStart" "pageEnd".
>
> http://bibotools.googlecode.com/svn/bibo-ontology/trunk/doc/index.html
>
> kc
>
>
>
> Quoting Bruce Whealton <bruce-IKflticWDqMk+I/[email protected]>:
>
>> Hello,
>>      I was looking to create a foaf profile for members of an
>> online community of writers.  I then thought it would be good to
>> have the ability to include/publish as semantic data, two sets of
>> information, the first of which is easier.  This would expand upon
>> their foaf profile with additional information.  For example the
>> first feature would expand upon foaf:publication.
>> 1) Publications ? such as individual poems and where they have been
>> published, as well as books of poetry, for example (similarly there
>> would be essays, short stories) and so for this feature, we are
>> looking at basically something in the way of a citation, with title
>> of publication, title of poem, name, publisher, date, etc.  I don?t
>> know if dc or dcterms would have all the properties needed.  I
>> didn?t see one for isbn or pages, such as stating what pages exist
>> in the full citation for a work.  Is there another vocabulary I
>> should use with foaf for this?
>> 2) If we wanted to publish prose inside an rdf file (and it would
>> have to be small in length) there?s not so much of a problem but if
>> we wanted to include poetry, there is the formatting option of line
>> breaks for presentation, or to keep it as a poem.  Do we just use \n
>> the new line character?
>> I suppose that something like this must have been done, referring to
>> #2.  RDBMS are used for this and it could be useful.
>> Thanks,
>> Bruce
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