Quoting Ed Summers <[email protected]>:

>
> It might be worth prodding the foaf-dev [3] discussion list to see
> what other people have used in the past for alternate names. I guess I
> can do that and report back here if you like?

That would be interesting, yes, please do.

Meanwhile, it seems to me that in general we need a more "grown up"  
foaf -- one that is less oriented to social networking sites, and more  
toward general applications (e.g. alternate names rather than just  
nick name). Either that or a real expansion of BIO  
(http://vocab.org/bio/0.1/.html) Looking at RDA vocabularies, there is  
"name of the person" and "variant name of the person" which are  
exactly what I need. They don't require that the name be in any  
particular format. RDA also has date of birth and date of death, which  
foaf does not have (it has birthday, but that's just month and day).  
So it looks like I could use RDA for those data elements, rather than  
switch from RDA to BIO.

kc



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