RE: A question on the vocabulary for 'persons'

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