[open-bibliography] Extra RDF datatypes

Tue Nov 16 13:50:15 UTC 2010

You can refer to subtypes and versions in a structured way, eg. 
http://purl.org/xtypes/Fragment-MediawikiMarkup-1.0

But I would suggest that you know the exact dialect used withing your 
system, and it still *conforms* to the broader dialect so don't over 
think it.

Knowing if a field contains wiki markup, html, etc. will make it much 
easier to merge (bibliographic) data from multiple sources.

RST can be added to xtypes if that helps.

William Waites wrote:
> * [2010-11-16 11:18:36 +0000] Christopher Gutteridge <cjg at ecs.soton.ac.uk> écrit:
>
> ] 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.
>
> Never seen LaTeX fragments personally, but we have run into this
> question with http://semantic.ckan.net/ -- the descriptions of things
> tend to be in some variant of markdown or restructured text (it might
> be some nontrivial amount of work to come up with a taxonomy of all
> the different dialects) and this is what gets put into dc:description
> for the datasets. I'm not actually certain which flavour of rst is
> being used by ckan. In any event this is missing from xtypes though
> Fragment-MediawikiMarkup is probably similar or related or similar.
>
> Cheers,
> -w
>
>   

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