RE: person schemas

This is a good example: it has the possibility of a structured name through:

<rdfs:Class rdf:ID="PersonName">

Same approach as vCard except there is no possibility within the schema for
a display form.  If we can't easily find a schema out there, my preference
is to mix-and-match properties from various well-used schema.  Presumably we
are just going down the road that ePerson has travelled and the world has
not moved to consolidating around one vocabulary yet.  Ideally, there would
eb a vocabulary that specialised in exprssing people's names (which is
hard).  It really would be better if large vocabularies used smaller,
focused vocabularies.

	Andy

PS I can't find the namespace unless its
http://www.mpeg7.org/2001/MPEG-7_Schema/mpeg7.rdf
but that host is has no DNS record.

-------- Original Message --------
> From: John S. Erickson <mailto:john.erickson@hp.com>
> Date: 14 October 2003 15:27
> 
> AndyS wrote:
> 
> > ...I wanted also to find a commonly used vocabulary (schema,
> > ontology) for describing people, not just ones from a recognized
> > domain controlled vocabulary... 
> > 
> > 
> JSE: For an interesting application of the <indecs>-derived (and
> FRBR-inspired) model of "person" in the form of MPEG-7 see Jane Hunter's
> "Adding Multimedia to the Semantic Web: Building an MPEG-7 Ontology" at:
> 
> http://archive.dstc.edu.au/RDU/staff/jane-hunter/semweb/paper.html
> 
> See specifically Section 2.3: "Basic Non-multimedia Entities in MPEG-7,"
> in which she discusses XML and RDF schema definitions of a MPEG-7
> "Person" 
> 
> John

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