Re: Use or alias in vCard/RDF?

On Monday 27 November 2006 19:22, Norman Walsh wrote:
> Can we move this up a level?

Yup! :-)

> There are several properties in the vCard ontology that are
> conceptually "the same as" some other properties from other
> ontologies. Off the top of my head:
[...]
> It seems to me that we can/should/could either deprecate all of these
> in favor of the properties from other namespaces or we could keep the
> local aliases and make them (some flavor of) sameAs the other
> properties.

I think that since vCard is so widely adopted, in one of its 
standardized forms or property soup, that we should provide the most 
1-to-1 mapping from vCard we possibly can to ease adoption. Leave vCard 
as it is (even when it is somewhat unappealing) and use RDFS or OWL to 
add the necessary links we require. I fear that if we change too much 
in it, people will think that "uh, they say it is vCard, but it is not 
all vCard" and reject it on that first look. 

I think we should think of vCard as being a card, but that it belongs to 
a foaf:Agent. That is, I hope we could have a foaf:has_vcard property 
with domain foaf:Agent and range vcard:VCard. Would it then be a 
reasonable extension to vCard to have the converse, vcard:belongs_to?

Cheers,

Kjetil
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