[OTDev] RDF

Egon Willighagen egon.willighagen at gmail.com
Wed Dec 2 09:19:27 CET 2009


Hi Nina,

On 11/30/09, chung <chvng at mail.ntua.gr> wrote:
>       * Change all rdf:datatype= “&xsd;string” to
>         rdf:datatype=”xsd:string”.

What is the reason for that? These should really be equivalent...
(given NS and ENTITY's are defined properly)

> Use more specific datatypes when
>         possible. For example: <dc:identifier
>         rdf:datatype=”xsd:anyURI”>http://valid/uri</dc:identifier>
>       * Identifiers such as xsd:nonPositiveInteger and
>         xsd:positiveInteger could be used instead of xsd:int in some
>         cases. See http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/ for reference.

Agreed. Allows for more automatic validation.

I hope to be able to schedule time before x-mass to look at the RDF in
detail (and write a Bioclipse plugin...), but I need to finish a few
other things first.

Egon

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