Comments on: Author Lists

By: Bruce D'Arcus

Bruce D'Arcus — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:51:18 +0000

Ooch; that IS ugly! What does it even say from a modeling perspective?

Also, note: dcterms:creator is now an object property.

By: alf

alf — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:27:46 +0000

Although having said that, the PRISM way looks a bit ugly:

<dc:creator>
<rdf:Seq>
 <rdf:li rdf:resource=â€creatorrole.xml#writerâ€>Linda Burman</rdf:li>
 <rdf:li rdf:resource=â€creatorrole.xml#editorâ€>Carl Rambert</rdf:li>
 <rdf:li rdf:resource=â€creatorrole.xml#graphicDesignerâ€>Allegra
Hartley</rdf:li>
</rdf:Seq>
</dc:creator>

By: alf

alf — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:23:48 +0000

I think the way that PRISM does it seems to make sense (that’s version 2 BTW, which is new): an ordered list of dc:creators and dc:contributors, each of which can have a ‘role’ attribute.

By: Bruce D'Arcus

Bruce D'Arcus — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:08:44 +0000

Alf: yes, I'm thinking (again) about using rdf:Seq, though not PRISM (that your link is a zip archive is part of my problems with it; I've complained about this and other issues for years, and have seen no progress).

What do you think about the option to just split off concern about order from encoding of roles? E.g. add a simple contributorList property that will always be an rdf:Seq.

<http://ex.net/1> a bibo:EditedBook ;
   bibo:editor <http://ex.net/people/1> ;
   bibo:editor <http ://ex.net/people/2> ;
   bibo:translator <http://ex.net/people/3> ;
   # not sure on syntax [1], but ...
   bibo:contributorList [  <http://ex.net/people/2>,
<http://ex.net/people/1>, <http://ex.net/people/3> ] .

What do you think?