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Re: Commonly supported properties

From: Bob Wyman <bob@wyman.us>
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 15:01:43 -0500
Message-ID: <45be5cd40902141201v4f3006e8k6c487c7234f5a6c9@mail.gmail.com>
To: Jay Luker <lbjay@reallywow.com>
Cc: public-lod@w3.org
I need to encode postal addresses and phone numbers for businesses (not
people) in some RDF I'm working on. Is there any particular existing
vocabulary that I should prefer over another for this application?

bob wyman

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Jay Luker <lbjay@reallywow.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm interested in getting people's thoughts on a particular line from the
> "How to publish Linked Data on the Web" tutorial. Specifically the
> following...
>
> "It is common practice to mix terms from different vocabularies. We
> especially recommend the use of rdfs:label<http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-schema/#ch_label>and
> foaf:depiction <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/#term_depiction> properties
> whenever possible as these terms are well-supported by client applications."
>
> I'm curious about a couple of things in regards to this: a) does anyone
> know what "client applications" the authors might be referring to, and b)
> are there examples of other properties that enjoy similar support?
>
> Thanks,
> --jay
>
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