[Buildingdata] Catalogues of stuff that's not data

[Christopher Gutteridge]

First of all, I'll introduce Andrew Milsted who joins my team as a full 
time equipment.data.ac.uk developer!

Andrew was looking for a way to specify the corrections to the metadata 
for a specific item of equipment, rather than the whole catalogue for a 
university. Initially we had

<equipment-uri> oo:corrections <mailto:bob at foo.ac.uk> .

But this isn't for corrections about the equipment, so in fact we need 
to do something like

<record-uri> foaf:primaryTopic <equipment-uri> .
<record-uri> rdf:type <mysteryClass> .
<record-uri> <mysteryPredicate> <catalogue-uri> .
<record-uri> oo:corrections <mailto:bob at foo.ac.uk> .

We've got a bit stuck on what the class and predicate should be. We've 
had a look at 
http://dublincore.org/groups/collections/collection-application-profile/index.shtml 
but it wasn't very helpful. DCat is no use as it's explicitly for 
catalogue of datasets, not real world items (eg. microscopes).

Does anyone have a good pattern for this before we just busk it?

-- 
Christopher Gutteridge -- http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cjg

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