[mdx] syntax for entity-attributes

Tom Scavo trscavo at gmail.com
Mon Sep 5 14:42:03 PDT 2011


On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Leif Johansson <leifj at sunet.se> wrote:
>
> On 09/05/2011 08:08 PM, Tom Scavo wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Leif Johansson <leifj at sunet.se> wrote:
>>>
>>> ... some group of people might
>>> assign the label 'archeology' to entities relevant to that community.
>>
>> Ah, so something like
>>
>> http://names.incommon.org/attribute/entity/user-defined=archeology
>>
>> but attribute values should be expressed as URIs so as not to clash
>> with each other:
>>
>> http://names.incommon.org/attribute/entity/user-defined=http://vo.example.org/group/archeology
>
> Possibly although according to  folksonomy 101 your names are
> namespace-free but I guess the above works...

Can you give an example of such an entity attribute in metadata? How
do you insure that two such attributes are unique without URIs?

Tom



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