Hi Ray, all, Regarding the Titles and Types issues, I think there's another option as well, Type as Class. Or, if I may, Type as Type :) For example: _:x a bf:Work ; bf:title _:y . _:y a bf:KeyTitle ; rdf:value "..." . I believe this is desirable for the following reasons: * Type as String Value just isn't good linked data. The type should be uniquely distinguishable, and clearly duplicate strings could be used by multiple communities independently. This includes all the *Scheme predicates. * Type as URI Value is better, but seems pointless when the URI could be more efficiently used as a class. All of the bf:*Type predicates and bf:*Scheme predicates can just be rdf:type instead. * It makes it easier to express domain and range. * It's more readable in the RDF/XML serialization and makes any object mapping significantly easier. * It reduces the number of properties, thereby making it easier to see what's going on in the model. The subclasses are there below the main class for when they're needed rather than cluttering up the top level. * It's easy to create new types without needing to worry about domain and range of properties, just by subClassing the main class. Otherwise, if you want to have additional predicates associated with your new instance, the domain has to be the main class rather than a subClass, which is very poor modeling. * It simplifies many other the predicates as the main class isn't necessary in the predicate name, that's just the class of the object that the predicate is being used with. If the predicate should have its value constrained then it shouldn't have Literal as its range. For example no need for identifierValue, instead it can be just value. * It prevents the possible inconsistency of using a predicate that implies one type on its object, but the object has a different one (eg Work issn x ; x scheme "doi"). So I think Example 2 is the closest, but a proposed Example 5: <http://example.com/xyz//Work1> bf:identifier [ a bf:IssnIdentifier ; rdf:value "12345678" . ] . Where bf:IssnIdentifier is rdfs:subClassOf bf:Identifier, which is the range of bf:identifier. The same pattern holds for all of the classes/predicates under consideration. For titles: <http://example.com/xyz//Work1> bf:title [ a bf:KeyTitle ; rdf:value "Lord of the Rings" . ] . For notes: <http://example.com/xyz//Work1> bf:note [ a bf:AdminHistNote ; rdf:value "Administrative history note" . ] . For classifications: <http://example.com/xyz//Work1> bf:classification [ a bf:DdcClassification ; rdf:value "234.5" . ] . For categories: <http://example.com/xyz//Work1> bf:category [ a bf:MediaCategory ; rdf:value "something" . ] . For shelfmarks: <http://example.com/xyz//Work1> bf:shelfmark [ a bf:DdcShelfmark ; rdf:value "12345678" . ] . Relators aren't needed as objects, and relationships between Works and Instances are just relationships and thus don't need fixing. Roles are not types, and thus Provider doesn't fit any of the patterns proposed. Roles are closer to relationships, and thus providerRole should be dropped. If the role is printing, then Work printer Provider, just like Work creator Person. If the role is associated with the Provider object, then it ties it exclusively to that Work so it could never be reused. And thus to answer the three questions: 1. Please don't do this at all :) The model should not allow multiple, incompatible ways to say the same thing at the same time. 2. Punning properties that can be either literal or a URI break tools and make many things, such as JSON-LD, much harder. Please don't do that either. 3. Good documentation, with contributions from the community accepted in a timely fashion, plus encouragement in the specification to be an active participant in the work. Hope that helps, Rob -- Rob Sanderson Technology Collaboration Facilitator Digital Library Systems and Services Stanford, CA 94305