My thanks to Rob Sanderson, his explanation is very helpful. I can see the need for having title as a resource when there are parsing and categorizing options in play, and the logic of framing the encoding to support that; and understand now that each of the titles in the "Hamlet" example would be a separate resource, not the same resource. The resource is used to enable added structure in specific graphs, not to describe a generalized entity.

Stephen

On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Karen Coyle <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Simon, DC 1.1 [1] (the original DC 15) is an annotation property. dct:title in the dcterms namespace [2] is defined as a literal. For RDF, it's always better to use the dcterms namespace properties.

[1] http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/title
[2] http://purl.org/dc/terms/title

On 5/15/15 7:51 AM, Simon Spero wrote:

On May 15, 2015 10:32 AM, "Robert Sanderson" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> So if all we ever need is one or more equally preferred strings as the title, and there are no parts, properties or relationships, then we should just use dc:title with a string. Otherwise, we need to use a resource.

And even in this case, the Dublin Core title property is not ideal, since it is an annotation property.

Simon

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