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add SRC/REF/SAME property to DESCRIPTOR and EXT elements #89

Closed mamund closed 3 years ago

mamund commented 3 years ago

NOTE: this is meant to help support a sameAs functionality within ALPS (see #12 )

the SRC (or REF? or SAME?) proprety is an optional property that you can use to reference the source or provenance of a DESCRIPTOR or EXT element. For example, you can define a semantic element with the id property set to "firstName" and a src property set to point to the source defintiion in schema.org (in this case https://schema.org/givenName).

<descriptor id="firstName" type="semantic" src="https://schema.org/givenName" />
fosrias commented 3 years ago

Can src be a url to an ALPS descriptor to show SameAs?

mamund commented 3 years ago

Probably. Would like to explore possible problems but if be happy if that could work.

I'll write up a first pass and we can discuss.

mamund commented 3 years ago

for this release, we'll be adding the def element to descriptors. the value of def will be an IRI that uniquely identifies the defintiion of the descriptor. Note that this might not be the equivalent of sameAs and we can address that separately.