Ivan, > There were some brainstorming on what vocabularies to use for > the simple notion of 'Person' in various settings. There is > old W3C note for an RDF version of vCard[1], but another > version was created by Norm Walsh a while ago[2]. And, of > course, there is FOAF. > > The issue came up because some people would like us to update > the old [1] note but, if we want to do that seriously, it is > not necessarily that easy (the vCard spec itself is not soooo o.k.).
I think it would be ideal if the three mentioned ontologies could work out together and come up a unified one. Scope-wise, I prefer that of vCard because FOAF has many other things, such as online chat account etc., that is not immediately useful to most biological applications. Hence, I don't think it is a good idea to start with a complicated idea like HL7's RIM. I would like to see a coarse grained top-ontology. And the RIM person or Kei-methoded Patient can all extend from the top ontology. Xiaoshu