On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Ross Singer <rossfsin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Oops, dcterms:title, does have a range -- nevermind.

Well, nevermind on that example, I still don't like URIs for
dcterms:description.

-Ross.
>
> -Ross.
>
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Ross Singer <rossfsin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Not sure I would like running across dcterms:description with a URI as
>> its object.  Not that dcterms:description has a defined range, but I
>> don't think most agents would expect anything other than some kind of
>> text.  Linked data is based at least as much on convention as schema -
>> doing something that disrupts the assumptions of the majority of your
>> consumers seems counterproductive.
>>
>> It'd be like having a URI for dcterms:title (also technically legal):
>> how abstract do you need it?
>>
>> I personally prefer rdf:XMLLiteral (and an untyped, unmarked up
>> version would make sense, too).
>>
>> -Ross.
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:26 AM, aj...@virginia.edu <aj...@virginia.edu> 
>> wrote:
>>> My inclination would be to keep the descriptive snippets in some kind of 
>>> content store with a good RESTful Web exposure and just use those URLs as 
>>> the values of "description" triples in your RDF. Then your RDF is genteel 
>>> Linked Data and your XHTML can be easily available to integrating services.
>>>
>>> ---
>>> A. Soroka
>>> Online Library Environment
>>> the University of Virginia Library
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jan 11, 2012, at 11:00 PM, CODE4LIB automatic digest system wrote:
>>>
>>>> From: Ethan Gruber <ewg4x...@gmail.com>
>>>> Date: January 11, 2012 3:07:16 PM EST
>>>> Subject: Re: Embedding XHTML into RDF
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> People are going to use the YUI rich text editor and the output is run
>>>> through tidy, so that should ensure the well-formedness of the HTML.
>>>>
>>>> Right now we have a system where thousands of small XHTML fragments exist
>>>> as text files in a filesystem (edited manually, practically), which are
>>>> rendered through wiki software.  The fragments have RDFa attributes so that
>>>> an RDFa python script can interpret wiki pages as RDF on the fly.  We need
>>>> to redesign the system from the ground up, and I'd like to use RDF as the
>>>> source object.
>>>>
>>>> Ethan

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