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 -- Steven J. Baskauf, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer Vanderbilt University Dept. of Biological Sciences postal mail address: VU Station B 351634 Nashville, TN 37235-1634, U.S.A. delivery address: 2125 Stevenson Center 1161 21st Ave., S. Nashville, TN 37235 office: 2128 Stevenson Center phone: (615) 343-4582, fax: (615) 343-6707 http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu