Houghton,Andrew wrote:
> Speaking from a *personal* point of view, I didn't get this aspect of RDA
> until your presentation in the NISO Webinar: "Bibliographic Control" on
> October 14. However, that left me with more questions about the details
> (RDFS/OWL) of how RDA elements have this duality of "Semantic Web" vs.
> "Library" usage and whether this distinction was really necessary. The
> RDA committee obviously thought this distinction was necessary, but it's
> not clear, to me, why every RDA element/property has to have a Semantic
> Web equivalent.
>
... so it can be used in the semantic web, not just in library catalogs.
Library catalogs can use the semantic web definition of the RDA
elements, but the semantic web cannot use the elements if they aren't
defined using the semantic web structure.
kc
> Could you post a URI to the presentation you did for the NISO Webinar? I
> found it helpful and others probably would too, especially if they didn't
> attend, in understanding RDA's Semantic Web aspect.
>
> Andy.
>
>
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