Re: ISSUE-17: Who are the contenders and how do they play together? [People]

The other biggie in this space isn't an RDF vocab but the UN/CEFACT Core 
Component Library [1]. You get a 14MB Excel file with a lot of terms in it.

Things like the French Person model [2] use it as the base.

Then there are things like the UK Gov list at [3].

Looking at these for the ISA Core Person shows a reasonably consistent 
model. It gets a bit less consistent if you start to consider things 
like marital status, parents' names etc. In the ISA work we've got a 
couple of odd-balls that may or may not survive public consultation:

Patronymic Name (Helga Magnusdottir and Olav Magnusson are siblings)

Places are described using a 'Location' class that allows you to define 
a location, whether a country or a specific place, by any combination of 
Geographic Name, geographic identifier, geolocation geometry or address.

Oh and did someone bring up the issue of how to represent fuzzy dates? ;-)

[1] http://www.unece.org/cefact/codesfortrade/unccl/CCL_index.html
[2] https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/fr_person/release/050
[3] 
http://interim.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/govtalk/schemasstandards/e-gif/datastandards/person_information.aspx


On 28/01/2012 10:10, Government Linked Data Working Group Issue Tracker 
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> ISSUE-17: Who are the contenders and how do they play together? [People]
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> http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/track/issues/17
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> Raised by: Michael Hausenblas
> On product: People
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> As of our charter, sec. 2.3, we're supposed to defines terms to describe:
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> People, such as elements of FOAF or vCard in RDF. This is an area for particular attention to privacy considerations.
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> Obviously, the charter mentions vCard and FOAF but there are also other vocabularies that can and maybe should be used to describe people such as Schema.org,  ISA Core Person Vocabulary, etc.)
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