Ehhhksellent.
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Bob Morris morris.bob@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for the clarification. Indeed, my distaste disappears with that explanation! Bob
[...] [I think your distaste for the interpretation above may be tempered by the fact that the cited change to behavior occurred while domains were still considered. They have since been abandoned to avoid inappropriate assertions, such as a resource having a property dwc:scientificName must be an instance of a dwc:Taxon. Such assertions are to be made in ontologies, and distinct ontologies may differ as to the domain of DwC terms. The idea is to build simple ontologies for specific world views, and to construct world views of larger scope by constructing further ontologies from these for particular purposes. DwC makes no claim to understand or enforce any given world view.]
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