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Use isPartOf and hasPart ? #15

Closed FranckCo closed 12 years ago

FranckCo commented 13 years ago

See if dcterms:hasPart and dcterms:isPartOf should be used instead or as superproperties of isPartOf and hasPart

FranckCo commented 12 years ago

Dan's comment on this : "I checked the DCMI site for isPartof and hasPart, and those relations refer to resources which are physically or logically included in some other resource. I am concerned that “physically and logically included” is restrictive with respect to the ISO 1087-1 definition of partitive relation. For instance, in some metadata system describing variables, someone might think that an example is a useful attribute. But, the system designers did not include it. So, from that person’s perspective, his description of a variable will include an example. It is in a partitive relation with a description of a variable. However, it is neither physically nor logically related. Therefore, the Dublin Core definitions are not equivalent nor are they super-ordinate."

This is conclusive, and I therefore close the issue.