Re: VIAF contributor model

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 6:31 AM, Haffner, Alexander <A.Haffner@d-nb.de> wrote:

> However, back to the formats I don’t want to discuss J foaf doesn’t have the
> power to reflect our comprehensive data – I thought we want to make this
> high quality data available for the public –if so we should have a closer
> look modeling the data in FRBRer, FRAD and/or RDA in parallel to the SKOS
> representation.
>
I keep seeing this statement getting made: "FOAF/SKOS are not
expressive enough for our data" and I'm simply not buying it.

Can somebody please back up this claim?  FOAF defines personal and
organizational entities.  SKOS defines concepts.

Those are exactly the things we're describing.

-Ross.

Received on Monday, 1 November 2010 13:40:33 UTC