[open-bibliography] Extra RDF datatypes

[Christopher Gutteridge]

Something that's been an ongoing issue for us in expressing 
bibliographic data in RDF, often we have fragments of text which contain 
markup mixed with ones that don't. HTML & LaTeX fragments being the most 
common.

http://purl.org/xtypes/

defines new datatypes to express this, eg.

<dc:description rdf:datatype='http://purl.org/Fragment-HTML'>Hello 
<b>World</b></dc:description>
<dc:description rdf:datatype='http://purl.org/Fragment-PlainText'>Hello 
World</dc:description>

PlainText explicitly indicates an absence of markup, other than 
CF,LF,Tab and others which are part of the character set.

I've been waiting years for a solution to this one, so I've given up and 
done it myself.

-- 
Christopher Gutteridge -- http://id.ecs.soton.ac.uk/person/1248

You should read the ECS Web Team blog: http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/webteam/