Thought the core WG should weigh in on this one. Olivier has a fair amount of experience with this and some good points to consider.
Comments? Thanks, Steve Speicher | IBM Rational Software | (919) 254-0645 ----- Forwarded by Steve K Speicher/Raleigh/IBM on 03/05/2010 08:10 AM ----- From: Olivier Berger <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: 03/05/2010 05:43 AM Subject: [oslc-cm] foaf:Person vs sioc:User for dc:creator or oslc_cm:owner ? Sent by: [email protected] Hi. I've had a look at http://open-services.net/bin/view/Main/CmResourceDefinitionsV2 and it seems that foaf:Person is preferred at the moment for describing reporters/owners of CRs. I'm not sure this is the best choice, and would propose to use sioc:User instead. When reading : "General agreement on foaf:Person is enough as there are not too many systems that have multiple accounts per user. Can be managed by having separate person instances (exception, instead of the rule)" I'm puzzled... sioc:User is already there to manage the situation of several accounts (sioc:Users) of the same physical person (foaf:Person). Why chose the least suitable one when there's one more flexible ? ;) Is this to avoid dependency on sioc and limit to foaf ? foaf:Person seems well suited when dealing with real physical persons, whereas sioc:User is more about accounts/aliases/nicks of potentially anonymous personalities of these real people. Also, when thinking about automation, I believe dc:creators couls be robots/apps, where sioc:User may be preferred to foaf:Persons too ;) In any case, sioc seems more actively maintained than foaf, IMHO, so it may be preferred maybe. Any comments ? Best regards, P.S.: I'm in the process of drafting a forge ontology : https://forge.projet-coclico.org/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/wp2/index.php/Forge_Ontology_Proposal which should be interoperable with OSLC-CM, hence my recent investigatiosn of sioc vs foaf. -- Olivier BERGER <[email protected]> http://www-public.it-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/ - OpenPGP-Id: 2048R/5819D7E8 Ingénieur Recherche - Dept INF Institut TELECOM, SudParis (http://www.it-sudparis.eu/), Evry (France) _______________________________________________ Oslc-Cm mailing list [email protected] http://open-services.net/mailman/listinfo/oslc-cm_open-services.net
