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There are no blank nodes in either example. relationship1 is the name of a plain old non-blank node.

The issue with the second case is that it is taking information that is taking information that is specializing the contributor relationship/property and sticking it in a new object with the value.

The range (value) of the contributor property is thus either a Person/Agent, or a Relationship object.
It is difficult to come up with a name for this combined type, which is often a sign of a modeling issue.

A better way to deal with this situation is to define a sub property of contributor that denotes the specific relationship. If one wishes to record extra information about the property, then you can add assertions to the property URI (for example, a natural language description).

Simon

On Jan 27, 2014 3:58 PM, "Karen Coyle" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> so let's go back to the original example from the MARC document, which is what I'm curious about, and take the easier example. The document gives two possible BIBFRAME fragments:
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> #1
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> work1� a� bf:Work;
> ����������� bf:contributor� <URI for illustrator's name>.
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> #2
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> work1 a bf:Work
> ����������� bf:contributor�� relationship1.
> relationship1� a� bf:Related;
> ����������� bf:relationshipID� id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ill;
> ����������� bf:identifier� <URI for illustrator's name>.
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> I have no problem with #1. #2 puzzles me, though. In this case, "relationship1" is probably a blank node, so I"m going to remove the semantics from that:
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> work1 a bf:Work ;
> ����������� bf:contributor�� _b123.
> _b123� a� bf:Related;
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> ����������� bf:relationshipID� id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ill;
> ����������� bf:identifier� <URI for illustrator's name>.
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> I'm still trying to understand what this might mean.� I don't find bf:Related defined (there is a class Relationship that appears with http://bibframe.org/vocab/Related.html). But the blank node should have the semantics of the object of bf:contributor. To say that the object of bf:contributor is a relationship doesn't seem right, especially when the node contains an Agent and a Relationship (I'm assuming that relationshipID is a property of class Relationship). How does this result in the statement:
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> ��� work1 has illustrator <URI for illustrator>� [and NOT for illustrator's name, btw]
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> Instead, it seems to say:
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> ��� work1 has a contributor and the contributor is a relationship between "ill" and "<URI for illustrator>".
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> In other words, I don't see how this states that the <URI for illustrator> has relationship "ill" with work1.
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> I hope someone else sees it clearly.
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