Linking in a vocabulary

[Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>]

Greetings!

I am starting to work on an example of linking in a vocabulary that is 
slightly different that the one John Madden is working on.

Briefly what I want to do is have an RDF vocabulary (either locally or 
remote) that I use without inline markup to define terms in a text.

I assume that I should use the content.xml file as the object of my 
first triple, which associates the RDF vocabulary with the entire 
document. (Where there are exceptions, that is a term should be defined 
by another vocabulary, I would have to distinguish that term with inline 
association with another vocabulary.)

First question: Does anyone have an RDF vocabulary that specifies a 
variety of forms of a term to recognize? In other words, upper/lower 
case, plural form, etc.

Second question: How do I say that a term that is defined by more 
specific metadata, through inline metadata association, should use that 
triple and not the more general one that would apply to the document as 
a whole? (Or is that something that we need to say in the proposal? That 
inline metadata trumps vocabulary metdata applied to the document as a 
whole? Well, more formally than that but you get the idea.)

Hope everyone is looking forward to a great weekend!

Patrick

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Patrick Durusau
Patrick@Durusau.net
Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface
Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model
Member, Text Encoding Initiative Board of Directors, 2003-2005

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