Oops, dcterms:title, does have a range -- nevermind.

-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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