[open-bibliography] MARC Codes for Forms of Musical Composition

Tue Jul 6 19:36:16 UTC 2010

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At Tue, 06 Jul 2010 10:07:56 -0700,
Erik Hetzner wrote:
> 
> At Tue, 6 Jul 2010 12:27:17 -0400,
> Young,Jeff (OR) wrote:
> > Let me address Ross' question before attempting to argue that restraint
> > to a single rdf:type is good practice.
> > 
> > Here is the example in question:
> > 
> > http://purl.org/NET/marccodes/muscomp/sy.rdf
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Once you bring OWL into the picture, every resource has rdf:type
> owl:Thing in addition to any defined rdf:type. Any rdfs:Class (C) that
> is rdfs:subClassOf another class (C') implies that every instance of
> type C is also of type C'. I would argue that a resource with multiple
> (implied) rdf:type(s) is the rule, not the exception.
> 
> best, Erik Hetzner