foaf:maker instead of dc:creator

[Yves Raimond]

Hello!

http://chatlogs.planetrdf.com/swig/2007-05-08.html#T09-37-42

An interesting comment from kwijibo on the #swig channel on IRC.
According to
http://rdfweb.org/topic/UsingDublinCoreCreator
we should probably use foaf:maker instead of dc:creator to relate a
MusicalManifestation to an Artist.

What do you think?

Cheers,
y

[Keith Alexander]

> http://chatlogs.planetrdf.com/swig/2007-05-08.html#T09-37-42
>
> An interesting comment from kwijibo on the #swig channel on IRC.
>

That's me by the way, hello list :)

-----------------
Keith Alexander
http://semwebdev.keithalexander.co.uk/blog/

[Alexandre Passant]

Hi

+1
Especially useful in case Different artists / Bands have a similar name.
Using a FOAF URI rather than dc:creator text string would help to
solve such problems
(Well, there's then a need to find / create URIs for any artists,
maybe from Jamendo / Lastfm .. exports ?)

Best,

Alex.

[Yves Raimond]

Hi!

> +1
> Especially useful in case Different artists / Bands have a similar name.
> Using a FOAF URI rather than dc:creator text string would help to
> solve such problems
> (Well, there's then a need to find / create URIs for any artists,
> maybe from Jamendo / Lastfm .. exports ?)

Well, it was already the case: we were using dc:creator as an object
property, and creating foaf profile for bands/people. But, according
to the rdfweb wiki page, it seems that we were wrong:-(

Btw, using foaf:maker instead of dc:creator means that a
MusicalManifestation has to be a sub class of foaf:Document? I am not
too sure about this...

Best,
y

[Keith Alexander]

Yves Raimond wrote:
>
> using foaf:maker instead of dc:creator means that a
> MusicalManifestation has to be a sub class of foaf:Document? I am not
> too sure about this...
>
>

The domain of foaf:maker is owl:Thing - which MusicalManifestation is
already a subclass of, isn't it?

http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/#term_maker

So I think that makes it usable here (correct me if I'm wrong ;) ). The
main thing is that dc:creator can be expected to contain a string, but
mo is (always?) using it to point to a resource, which isn't ideal -
according to that foaf article at least.

Cheers,

Keith

--
Keith Alexander
http://semwebdev.keithalexander.co.uk/blog/

[Yves Raimond]

> >
> > using foaf:maker instead of dc:creator means that a
> > MusicalManifestation has to be a sub class of foaf:Document? I am not
> > too sure about this...
> >
> >
> The domain of foaf:maker is owl:Thing - which MusicalManifestation is
> already a subclass of, isn't it?
>
> http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/#term_maker

True :-)
Ok - I add the change to the todo list for next revision.

Best,
y

[fr...@fgiasson.com]

Hello,

Yeah, this makes much senses.

Yvesr: I added it to the todo list on the wiki.

Take care,

Fred