On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Karen Coyle <kco...@kcoyle.net> wrote: > I have fantasized that we could create a good mix between RDA and FOAF > (and they have only 3 or 4 elements in common - I did a comparison). > RDA lacks all of the interesting elements for living persons: address, > email, web site. And FOAF lacks the historical view (dob, dod, etc., > "flourished" in some century long long ago) and the formal view > (titles of royalty or religious titles). Between them we could have a > good "living and dead" vocabulary. I'd like to see it called "Person" > :-).
Personally I think it would be better to see what can be used from FOAF and Bio [1] before fantasizing too much. Being able to cherry pick pieces of vocabulary is where RDF really shines, as compared to much more rigid XML Schema oriented approaches to data modeling. //Ed [1] http://purl.org/vocab/bio/ _______________________________________________ Ol-tech mailing list Ol-tech@archive.org http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to ol-tech-unsubscr...@archive.org
