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In case others had the same ?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_sugar kc On 5/4/13 1:44 AM, Stuart Yeates wrote: > As I read it, > http://bibframe.org/documentation/annotations/20130430.html attempts > to solve two problems (a) lightweight representation of non-canonical > bibliographic metadata and (b) knowing which RDF triples should be > exchanged in inter-operability processes. I say 'As I read > it' because the document appears to contain no explicit statement of > the problem(s) it is attempting to address. > > (a) I agree that a lightweight representation is likely to be > necessary, but this is not it. Introducing semantically new > RDF properties into bibframe, the current scheme introduces a > complexity burden on every bibframe-compliant tool, in perpetuity. A > very similar representation could have been achieved by using OWL to > create syntactic sugar RDF properties (potentially in combination with > selected Open Annotation, SIOC, etc. properties, if necessary). These > would appear to users just like normal properties, but allow tools > which didn't care about them to use only the existing properties. This > would also avoid drawing an artificial line in the sand between > reviews that are Works and reviews that aren't. Given that reviews > range continuously from stars-of-out-three to > three-volume dissertations, it's hard to imagine that every library is > going to get that right every time. Syntactic sugar RDF properties > would let us treat reviews as Works when we wanted to and only then. > > (b) There is an already implemented and optimized technology for > organizing large sets of RDF triples of divergent provenance and > lifecycles, called 'Named Graphs.' As far as I can tell it is an idea > solution for dealing with the fact that some of the content is 'core' > bibliographic content from a consortia; some is user contributed data > under a custom license; some is commercially licensed cover images; > some is harvested from wikipedia; some is local cataloging of unique > items; some is temporary cataloging of recently received items; etc. > > cheers > stuart > > -- Karen Coyle [log in to unmask] http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet