Re: FRBR WEMI and identifiers

This may help.  I did a "View Page Source" at http://id.loc.gov/authorities/ and found this:

        <div id="rdfaBlock">
            <div about="http://id.loc.gov/authorities#ConceptScheme" typeof="skos:ConceptScheme">
                <span xml:lang="en-Latn" property="rdfs:label">Authorities Concept Scheme</span>
                <span xml:lang="en-Latn" property="rdfs:comment">This is a general Concept Scheme for all authorities.</span>
            </div>
            <div about="http://id.loc.gov/authorities#personalNames" typeof="skos:ConceptScheme">
                <span xml:lang="en-Latn" property="rdfs:label">Personal Names Concept Scheme</span>

                <span xml:lang="en-Latn" property="rdfs:comment">This is a Concept Scheme for Personal Name authorities.</span>
            </div>
            <div about="http://id.loc.gov/authorities#corporateNames" typeof="skos:ConceptScheme">
                <span xml:lang="en-Latn" property="rdfs:label">Corporate Names Concept Scheme</span>
                <span xml:lang="en-Latn" property="rdfs:comment">This is a Concept Scheme for Corporate Name authorities.</span>
            </div>
            <div about="http://id.loc.gov/authorities#meetings" typeof="skos:ConceptScheme">

                <span xml:lang="en-Latn" property="rdfs:label">Meetings Name Concept Scheme</span>
                <span xml:lang="en-Latn" property="rdfs:comment">This is a Concept Scheme for Meeting Name authorities.</span>
            </div>
            <div about="http://id.loc.gov/authorities#uniformTitles" typeof="skos:ConceptScheme">
                <span xml:lang="en-Latn" property="rdfs:label">Uniform Titles Concept Scheme</span>
                <span xml:lang="en-Latn" property="rdfs:comment">This is a Concept Scheme for Uniform Title authorities.</span>
            </div>

            <div about="http://id.loc.gov/authorities#chronologicalTerms" typeof="skos:ConceptScheme">
                <span xml:lang="en-Latn" property="rdfs:label">Chronological Terms Concept Scheme</span>
                <span xml:lang="en-Latn" property="rdfs:comment">This is a Concept Scheme for Chronological term authorities.</span>
            </div>
            <div about="http://id.loc.gov/authorities#topicalTerms" typeof="skos:ConceptScheme">
                <span xml:lang="en-Latn" property="rdfs:label">Topical Terms Concept Scheme</span>
                <span xml:lang="en-Latn" property="rdfs:comment">This is a Concept Scheme for Topical term authorities.</span>

            </div>
            <div about="http://id.loc.gov/authorities#geographicNames" typeof="skos:ConceptScheme">
                <span xml:lang="en-Latn" property="rdfs:label">Geographic Names Concept Scheme</span>
                <span xml:lang="en-Latn" property="rdfs:comment">This is a Concept Scheme for Geographic Name authorities.</span>
            </div>
            <div about="http://id.loc.gov/authorities#genreFormTerms" typeof="skos:ConceptScheme">
                <span xml:lang="en-Latn" property="rdfs:label">Genres/Forms Concept Scheme</span>

                <span xml:lang="en-Latn" property="rdfs:comment">This is a Concept Scheme for Genre and Form terms authorities.</span>
            </div>
            <div about="http://id.loc.gov/authorities#generalSubdivision" typeof="skos:ConceptScheme">
                <span xml:lang="en-Latn" property="rdfs:label">General Subdivisions Concept Scheme</span>
                <span xml:lang="en-Latn" property="rdfs:comment">This is a Concept Scheme for General Subdivision authorities.</span>
            </div>
            <div about="http://id.loc.gov/authorities#geographicSubdivision" typeof="skos:ConceptScheme">

                <span xml:lang="en-Latn" property="rdfs:label">Geographic Subdivisions Concept Scheme</span>
                <span xml:lang="en-Latn" property="rdfs:comment">This is a Concept Scheme for Geographic Subdivision authorities.</span>
            </div>
            <div about="http://id.loc.gov/authorities#chronologicalSubdivision" typeof="skos:ConceptScheme">
                <span xml:lang="en-Latn" property="rdfs:label">Chronological Subdivisions Concept Scheme</span>
                <span xml:lang="en-Latn" property="rdfs:comment">This is a Concept Scheme for Chronological Subdivision authorities.</span>
            </div>

            <div about="http://id.loc.gov/authorities#formSubdivision" typeof="skos:ConceptScheme">
                <span xml:lang="en-Latn" property="rdfs:label">Form Subdivisions Concept Scheme</span>
                <span xml:lang="en-Latn" property="rdfs:comment">This is a Concept Scheme for Form Subdivision authorities.</span>
            </div>
        </div>

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From: Next generation catalogs for libraries [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Karen Coyle
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 11:11 AM
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] FRBR WEMI and identifiers

Quoting Ross Singer <rossfsinger_at_GMAIL.COM>:


Thanks, Ross. This probably reflects a misunderstanding on my part  
around  "cool uris." From reading the cool uris document, I assumed  
that these two represent the same resource but with multiple names,  
therefore there is one scheme:

> <skos:inScheme rdf:resource="http://id.loc.gov/authorities#conceptScheme"/>
> <skos:inScheme rdf:resource="http://id.loc.gov/authorities#geographicNames"/>

It appears I may be taking the stripping of the hash too literally. In  
any case, is there a document that defines the "concept schemes" and  
what they refer to? Do they have an RDF representation somewhere? I  
feel like there was a lot of thinking that went on in the development  
of the LCSH vocabulary, but I'm not able to extract it from the code  
itself.

kc
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