Shouldn't the RDF for DwC link DwC:lat to geo:lat (using some subtype or better yet equivalency relation)? And shouldn't hence Linked Data browsers be able to use DwC:lat in the same way as geo:lat?
-hilmar
On Aug 6, 2010, at 11:01 AM, joel sachs wrote:
All,
When representing observation records in RDF, there are advantages to using Dublin Core and Geo (http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/ wgs84_pos#) namespaces where possible. For example, if we use DC:date, and geo:lat, geo:long, instead of DwC:eventDate, DwC:lat, and DwC:long, then Linked Data browsers can automatically map the records, plot them on a timeline, etc.
My question is: What are the disadvantages to doing this? (For example, is this going to break someone's DwC validator?)
Thanks - Joel.