RE: Planned changes to the VIAF RDF

Strictly speaking, library authority data separates personal names and corporate names. Nicolas Bourbaki is an example where the 80/20 rule breaks down in terms of mapping library data to reality. In effect, we can "personify" just about anything if we assign a "personal name" to it. We just need to be aware that people are going to giggle when they realize that "Phil" is our pet rock. ;-)

Jeff

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> From: public-lld-request@w3.org [mailto:public-lld-request@w3.org] On
> Behalf Of Karen Coyle
> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 2:13 PM
> To: Dan Brickley
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> Subject: Re: Planned changes to the VIAF RDF
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> Quoting Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>:
> 
>   My preference now would be to avoid having an explicit
> > disjointness statement between Person and Organization in the FOAF
> > schema, but I've not tried to persuade any wider community of that
> > yet.
> 
> Library authority data does separate persons and corporate bodies, and
> also adds another category called "family" (the latter used heavily in
> archives when a family is the primary focus of an archival collection,
> either as subjects or as creators).
> 
> Note that it does allow these same entities to be change agents
> (creators, publishers, whatever) as well as subjects of a resource.
> 
> kc
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