Re: Namespace management, was Models of MARC in RDF

From: Karen Coyle <lists_at_nyob>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:22:40 -0800
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Quoting Simon Spero <ses_at_UNC.EDU>:

> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Richard Wallis  
> <richard.wallis_at_talis.com>wrote:
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>> However, I think you are thinking in the right direction - I am
>> resigning myself to just using the word 'description'.
>
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> Q: In your definition, can *descriptions *be put* * into 1:1 correspondence
> with records (where a record is a atomic asserted set of propositions about
> a resource)?

Yes, I realize that you were asking Richard, but I'm a bit forward, as  
we know. I do NOT see a description as atomic in the sense that a  
record is atomic. A record has rigid walls, a description has  
permeable ones. A description always has the POTENTIAL to have a bit  
of unexpected data added; a record cuts off that possibility.

That said, I am curious about the permeability of the edges of a named  
graph. I don't know their degree of rigidity in terms of properties  
allowed.

kc

>
> Simon
>



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