[tdwg-tag] string literals vs. uris for dwc:recordedBy, dwc:identifiedBy, and dwc:georeferencedBy in RDF

[Steve Baskauf]

The definition for the Darwin Core term recordedBy
http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/index.htm#recordedBy
says "A list (concatenated and separated) of names ...".  The examples 
given are string literals.  However, when using this term as a predicate 
in RDF, it would seem preferable to use a URI to an RDF representation 
of the entity (if one exists) rather than a string literal.  For 
example, can I use:
<dwc:recordedBy 
rdf:resource="http://people.vanderbilt.edu/~steve.baskauf/foaf.rdf#me"/>
rather than
<dwc:recordedBy>Steven J. Baskauf</dwc:recordedBy>
?

Steve Baskauf
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