Re: seeAlso
Andy Powell <[email protected]>
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On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Dan Brickley wrote: > * Julian Bond <julian_bond-/Fkc1E/MbsFWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> [2003-07-23 08:00+0100] > > One of the powerful ideas in FOAF is the widespread use of rdfs:seeAlso > > > > Could this be usefully applied in RSS? > > It can be used in any RDF-based format whenever you've mentioned > something and want to reference more (typically machine-processable, RDF) > info about it elsewhere in the Web. I assume that the semantics of seeAlso are pretty loose - i.e. you can use it to point to anything, some more RDF, some XML, an HTML page, a PDF file or whatever? I.e. in some cases you are getting something machine-readable, in other cases you aren't. I have never understood why, in a semantically rich environment like RDF, one would want to use such semantically fuzzy properties. Why not use a more precise property like 'additionalRDF' (a sub-property of seeAlso) if that is what you mean? Andy -- Distributed Systems, UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/a.powell +44 1225 383933 Resource Discovery Network http://www.rdn.ac.uk/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/