Re: vCard RDF merge....

On 30 Jun 2009, at 19:17, Toby Inkster wrote:

> One other thing it has though is a more vCard-like way of representing
> telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, etc.

> Instead of:
>
>  _:me a v:VCard ;
>       v:fn "Alice Smith" ;
>       v:workTel <tel:+44-7700-900123> ;
>       v:mobileTel <tel:+44-7700-900123> .
>
> It uses:
>
>  _:me a v:VCard ;
>      v:fn "Alice Smith" ;
>      v:tel [
>       a vx:Tel ;
>       rdf:value <tel:+44-7700-900123> ;
>       vx:usage "work" , "mobile"
>   ] .
>
> My primary motivation was to be able to represent the data in the  
> hCard
> microformat in a way more closely related to the type+value  
> structure of
> hCard communications devices.
>
> It's not perfect (it breaks the "range" of the 2006 v:tel, v:email and
> v:label properties; and vx:usage should probably take a non-literal
> value) but perhaps some of the ideas there could be incorporated into
> the merged RDF vCard. In particular it should address all of the  
> points
> above.

Yes, this the model we used for the W3C Note.
See the examples in section "3.3 Properties with Attributes" in <http://www.w3.org/TR/vcard-rdf 
 >

If we stick to this, what implications are there for the vCard  
Ontology <http://www.w3.org/2006/vcard/ns>


> rdf:List only becomes especially useful when you want to indicate that
> the set of values for a property is a closed set.

Good point.


Cheers...  Renato Iannella
NICTA

Received on Friday, 3 July 2009 05:29:54 UTC