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

Bob Morris morris.bob at gmail.com
Wed Sep 8 06:09:03 CEST 2010


This is better than my second offering owl:PriorVersion, which is
disparaged in the final OWL2 recommendation for other than an Ontology
object. See http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-owl2-syntax-20091027/#Ontology_Annotations

So much OWL 2 documentation. So little time.  Sigh.


On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 11:48 PM, John Wieczorek <tuco at berkeley.edu> wrote:
> 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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