- From: Haffner, Alexander <A.Haffner@d-nb.de>
- Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 15:05:48 +0100
- To: "Ross Singer" <ross.singer@talis.com>
- Cc: "public-lld" <public-lld@w3.org>
> > 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. Not the entities itself are the problem (maybe the SKOS concept is but not the FOAF ones). I strongly assume libraries will use RDA in conceivable future, by this time librarians will raise their voice for an adequate representation of the cataloged information in the web (LLD) too. Regarding my full mail from last time, my question was more about the role of VIAF in these movements. So if VIAF intends to become the global authority database on the LD web in an RDA era, you should not use elements which don't express the same content / have same meaning like claimed by the content standard (RDA rules). Below a list of RDA attributes only for a person (without considering relationships between entities) - unfortunately I cannot find analog elements for all of these in FOAF Address Of The Person Affiliation Biographical Information Cataloguer's Note Country Associated With The Person Date Associated With The Person Date Of Birth Date Of Death Period Of Activity Of The Person Field Of Activity Of The Person Fuller Form Of Name Gender Identifier For The Person Language Of The Person Name Of The Person Preferred Name For The Person Variant Name For The Person Note Other Designation Associated With The Person Place Of Birth Place Of Death Place Of Residence Profession or Occupation Source Consulted Status Of Identification Title Of The Person Undifferentiated Name Indicator
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