what to do about External?

[xristy]

The external element in common.xsd needs to be mapped. The initial idea would be to rdfs.seeAlso but there's an @source and @data pair of attrs in the XML so what to do?

[xristy]

For the <?:external/>s the @data is a URL and the @source is not present or extraneous.

There are 13 <place:external/>s with @data holding a URL. 3 of these are tbrc.org URLs and the rest are to Treasury of Lives (ToL).

There are 1015 <person:external/>s with @data holding a URL. Of these, 995 appear to be references to ToL and the other 15 are tbrc.org URLs. Some of these are Outline nodes others whole Works. These ideally should be converted to the bdr:Wxxxxx resource URIs that the Outline nodes or Works get mapped to. The ToL URLs seem fine.

There are 0 externals in Works, Outlines, Offices.

There are 10 externals in Lineages which are all tbrc.org URLs.

There is 1 ToL reference in Corporations

There are 2 externals in Topic, both are non tbrc.org

So my conclusion is to map <external data="xxx"/> to rdfs:seeAlso and ignore the few occurrences of @source and the element content.

[eroux]

If it's that consistent, I think the best solution is:

• for tbrc URLs, do something like ?a rdf:seeAlso bdr:W123 (coping with the fact that outlines now have different IDs will be the most difficult part)
• for ToL URLs, add a new annotation property :seeAlsoToL having any url as range

I think that would make the cleanest organization... It would be really great if ToL was using linked data... maybe they would be interested if I send them my small document? do you have a contact?

[eroux]

I've done that

[xristy]

Yes I intend that tbrc.org URLs be mapped to ?a rdfs:seeAlso bdr:XXXXX. I see no need to single out ToL for special treatment in the ontology. I think rdfs:seeAlso is quite sufficient.

[eroux]

ok