Quoting Rob Styles <[email protected]>:

> Pre-conceived notions, yes. But the fact that the two vocabularies
> provide different terms doesn't make the thing a different type of
> thing necessarily. The two vocabularies provide for describing
> different aspects of the same thing.

How do you know that? Because they both use the word Person?

>
> Someone can be a person, author a work and be part of a social network
> all at the same time without it becoming inconsistent.

Of course. But there's a big difference between real life and metadata.

kc

>
> Rob Styles
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> On 7 Jun 2010, at 17:59, "Karen Coyle" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Quoting Erik Hetzner <[email protected]>:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> They are different realms of description, but the thing described (a
>>> person) is the same in both, as I see it.
>>
>> You may see it that way, but the developers of the two schemas
>> obviously did not because they have almost NO properties in common.
>> The properties define the scope of the entity. I think that we
>> naturally get "conned" by language, so when we see the term Person we
>> have pre-conceived notions. Those aren't borne out in this case.
>>
>> kc
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