[tdwg-tag] string literals vs. uris for dwc:recordedBy, dwc:identifiedBy, and dwc:georeferencedBy in RDF
Steve Baskauf
steve.baskauf at vanderbilt.edu
Wed May 19 17:09:01 CEST 2010
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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