[open-bibliography] Extra RDF datatypes

Tue Nov 16 11:23:32 UTC 2010

Sorry, typo, should have read
<dc:description 
rdf:datatype='http://purl.org/*xtypes/*Fragment-HTML'>Hello 
<b>World</b></dc:description>
<dc:description 
rdf:datatype='http://purl.org/*xtypes/*Fragment-PlainText'>Hello 
World</dc:description>

Christopher Gutteridge wrote:
> 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.
>

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