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I think dc:creator is supposed to take a string instead of an object or URI.  So I think you should use a different predicate, which takes a class as an object.  Then you can have an object that describes Thomas Jefferson and include both his name and gender, links to authority records, etc.:

<rdf:RDF
  xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
  xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
  xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/"
  xmlns:owl="http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#"
  xmlns:foo="http://foo.org/">

  <!-- the Declaration Of Independence was authored by Thomas Jefferson, who is male -->
  <rdf:Description
    rdf:about="http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html">
    <dc:creator>Thomas Jefferson</dc:creator>
    <foo:creator>
      <foaf:Person rdf:about="http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n79-89957">
        <foaf:name>Thomas Jefferson</foaf:name>
        <foaf:gender>male</foaf:gender>
        <owl:sameAs rdf:resource="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79089957"/>
      </foaf:Person>
    </foo:creator>
  </rdf:Description>
</rdf:RDF>

-Esme
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Esme Cowles <[log in to unmask]>

"Men feared witches and burnt women."
-- Louis Brandeis, Whitney v.  California, concurring

On 11/3/2013, at 12:00 AM, Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 
> How can I write an RDF serialization enabling me to express the fact that the United States Declaration Of Independence was written by Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Jefferson was a male? (And thus asserting that the Declaration of Independence was written by a male.)
> 
> Suppose I have the following assertion:
> 
>  <rdf:RDF
>    xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
>    xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" >
> 
>    <!-- the Declaration Of Independence was authored by Thomas Jefferson -->
>    <rdf:Description
>    rdf:about="http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html">
>          <dc:creator>http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n79-89957</dc:creator>
>    </rdf:Description>
> 
>  </rdf:RDF>
> 
> Suppose I have a second assertion:
> 
>  <rdf:RDF
>    xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
>    xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/">
> 
>    <!-- Thomas Jefferson was a male -->
>    <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n79-89957">
>      <foaf:gender>male</foaf:gender>
>    </rdf:Description>
> 
>  </rdf:RDF>
> 
> Now suppose a cool Linked Data robot came along and harvested my RDF/XML. Moreover lets assume the robot could make the logical conclusion that the Declaration was written by a male. How might the robot express this fact in RDF/XML? The following is my first attempt at such an expression, but the resulting graph (attached) doesn't seem to visually express what I really want:
> 
> <rdf:RDF
>  xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#”
>  xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/“
>  xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/“>
> 
>  <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n79-89957">
>    <foaf:gender>male</foaf:gender>
>  </rdf:Description>
> 
>  <rdf:Description
>  rdf:about="http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html">
>    <dc:creator>http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n79-89957</dc:creator>
>  </rdf:Description>
> </rdf:RDF>
> 
> Am I doing something wrong? How might you encode such the following expression — The Declaration Of Independence was authored by Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Jefferson was a male. And therefore, the Declaration Of Independence was authored by a male named Thomas Jefferson? Maybe RDF can not express this fact because it requires two predicates in a single expression, and this the expression would not be a triple but rather a “quadrile" — object, predicate #1, subject/object, predicate #2, and subject?
> 
> 
> —
> Eric Morgan
> 
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