[tdwg-content] evil twin of "dcterms:replaces" in DwC rdf representation

John Wieczorek tuco at berkeley.edu
Wed Sep 8 05:48:35 CEST 2010


Just for the record, dcterms:replaces has been substituted for the erroneous
rdfs:replaces in all of the Darwin Core rdf documents.

On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Bob Morris <morris.bob at gmail.com> wrote:

> dwcterms.rdf  uses "rdfs:replaces"  to implement the "Replaces"
> attribute of DwC term definitions.
>
> There is no rdfs:replaces in the RDFS recommendation.
>
> Probably what is desired is dcterms:replaces or, even better
> owl:PriorVersion, which will play nicely with reasoning on Annotation
> Properties.
>
> This matters if one is trying to make an OWL2 representation of DwC,
> which is very finicky about what  Annotation Properties may be in the
> rdfs namespace (none, except as those listed in
> http://www.w3.org/TR/owl2-syntax/#Annotation_Properties).
>
> Bob Morris
>
>
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