- From: <richard.hancock@3kbo.com>
- Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 23:47:44 -0500 (CDT)
- To: "Daniel O'Connor" <daniel.oconnor@gmail.com>
- Cc: richard.hancock@3kbo.com, martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org, public-lod@w3.org
Thanks Daniel, I'll check out foaf:Organization Cheers, Richard >> >> Initially I added the URI of my foaf file to the BusinessEntity instance >> using rdfs:seeAlso, but after reading the definition of BusinessEntity >> i.e. that it "represents the legal agent making a particular offering >> and >> can be a legal body or a person" I changed it to owl:sameAs. >> >> E.g. >> >> <gr:BusinessEntity rdf:ID="BusinessEntity"> >> ... >> <owl:sameAs >> rdf:resource="http://www.3kbo.com/people/richard.hancock/foaf.rdf#i"/> >> ... >> </gr:BusinessEntity> >> >> This makes sense for my simple case, since as a sole trader I am the >> BusinessEntity and owl:sameAs also provides an inferred link from my >> foaf >> file to the semanticweb.rdf. >> >> But I am also interested in describing other more complex relationships >> between a BusinessEntity (when not a person) and the people involved >> with >> the business (e.g. directors, CEO etc ...) and between other >> BusinessEntitys. > > > > I did fairly well with foaf:Organisation, which is a foaf:Agent (so can do > most of the things a foaf:Person can) in terms of modelling who works with > who. > > IE; it gets a foaf profile and there are foaf:members of it, and in my > case > (this guy is a contractor who works for a bigger company); one company can > be a foaf:member of another. > > > <foaf:PersonalProfileDocument rdf:about=""> > <foaf:primaryTopic rdf:resource="#me"/> > </foaf:PersonalProfileDocument> > > > <foaf:Organization rdf:about="#me"> > <foaf:firstName>Tom</foaf:firstName> > <foaf:surname>Example</foaf:surname> > <foaf:mbox_sha1sum>d02b26e1f89b4c37e8cafdb10b13df193938e984</foaf:mbox_sha1sum> > > <foaf:member > rdf:resource="https://vx.valex.com.au/rest/rdf/user/foaf.php?us_id=10824" > /> > <rdfs:seeAlso > rdf:resource="https://vx.valex.com.au/rest/rdf/user/foaf.php?us_id=10824" > /> > </foaf:Organization> > > <!-- Valfirms I work with --> > <foaf:Organization > rdf:about="https://vx.valex.com.au/rest/rdf/valfirm/foaf.php?valfirm_id=2"> > <foaf:name>Megaw & Hogg National Valuers > (Adelaide)</foaf:name> > <foaf:member rdf:resource="#me" /> > </foaf:Organization> > > > > > >> >> >> Do you now of an ontology along the lines of foaf >> (http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/) and relationship >> (http://vocab.org/relationship/) that could be used? >> > > FoafCorp is one that comes to mind, but I've never look at it too hard. >
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