RDF Discussion Vocabulary Vocabulary for discussing statements, ideas and other things. Specifically permits relating to existing RDF statements made in some external document. Addresses the problem of differentiating between the various sorts of things that may be identified by a URI. 2008-04-20 AddressableStatement An RDF assertion which can be addressed and is well defined by a URI combined with a set of parsing rules. alpha core term Any thing that can be addressed and used as the subject of an RDF statement. Should have identifiedBy, identifiedAs and parsingRules properties (the latter two may be left as defaults). identifiedBy When conbined with the defined or default identifiedAs and parsingRules, a unique identifier for an AddressableThing. Usually a URI or URN. identifiedAs Is this an RDF statement, electronic document, idea, person, place, physical object or other? Similar to type, but means 'what kind of thing is identified by this resource'. Defaults to document for class AddressableThing, and to RDF statement for the class AddressableStatement. parsingRules This is here so we can talk about RDFa statements. The default parsing rule for AddressableStatement is that a URI of the form http://example.com/doc.html#id1 is parsed for RDF statements with the subject contained in the tag with property id="id1". There should be other ways to parse specific ideas out of documents so we can talk about them, including for AddressableThing words on pages of books. Probably need a whole vocabulary for parsingRules, not to mention parsing apps that follow them. Similar to a:context. originalSource If the identifedBy property does not identify the original source of the statement or other thing, it should be stated here tdl:mentions tdl:discusses tdl:respondsTo tdl:respondsPositivelyTo tdl:respondsNegativelyTo a:hasAnnotation rev:hasReview rdfs:seeAlso tdl:respondsPositivelyTo Responds positively in the sense of providing evidence or logical argument to support the object tdl:respondsNegativelyTo Responds negatively in the sense of providing evidence or logical argument against the object tdl:respondsTo Responds in the sense of adding new information related to the object. May be used in further researching a story read in the news media, for example rdfs:seeAlso identifies a subject resource that implements or instantiates a concept, design or policy descibed by the object resource rdfs:seeAlso identifies a subject resource that makes use of the object resource, in the sense of a document using a vocabulary, a program using a module, a construction project using a specific technique. Can be used in very general sense. Less precise than "implements" which implies that the subject can be described as a concrete instance of the object. rdfs:seeAlso identifies a subject resource that contains an example of the thing described in the object resource tdl:respondsTo identifies a subject resource that contains direct observation or firsthand experience related to the statement, idea or thing described in the object resource rdfs:seeAlso for relating a subject resource to the URI of a category in a taxonomy. May be used with personal tag hierarchies. http://www.w3.org/2004/03/trix/swp-1#assertedBy who is believed to have made the subject statement. Not fully warrented with proper authority, but just for record keeping. Not all statements we want to discuss are SWP-compatible, but we may still want to make some note about who made them. Less precise than foaf:maker