[open-bibliography] Library of Congress subject headings & RDF

[William Waites]

* [2011-01-07 10:15:45 -0500] John Mark Ockerbloom <ockerblo at pobox.upenn.edu> écrit:

] On 01/07/2011 07:18 AM, Owen Stephens wrote:
] >Can anyone point me at (or advise me on) examples of representing subject
] >heading fields from a library catalogue record as RDF. Specifically I'm
] >interested in how chained sets of subject headings are represented.
] 
] Hmmm... I think of your example as a single heading with multiple parts.
] Something like "Popular music -- History -- 20th century" isn't really
] about "History" or the "20th century" except as those things relate to
] popular music, after all.

iff the subject headings can be considered owl:Class then you could
express this with,

:book dc:subject [
    owl:intersectionOf (:PopularMusic, :History, :20thCentury)
].

I could also imagine an inference rule that constructs an 
appropriate label/value for the thing.

But maybe this is unwieldy?

-w
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