rdf:about and PURLs

Mike Linksvayer ml at creativecommons.org
Sat Jul 23 09:55:06 EDT 2005


Norman Gray wrote:
> Say I want to attach some licence declarations to a web document  
> referred to by a PURL -- what URL should I put in the rdf:about slot?

Great question, well asked.  I wish I had a fully satisfactory answer.

Most existing documents with CC RDF say rdf:about="", but that's exactly 
the same as using the URI of the current document.  Perhaps do that, but 
add <owl:sameAs rdf:resource="http://purl.org/..."/>.  That way any RDF 
processor can make sense of the assertions about the current URL, and 
anyone who wants to drag in OWL can see that the assertions also apply 
to the PURL.

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   Mike Linksvayer
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