Re: Is vCard range restriction on org:siteAddress necessary?

I wish the conflation of a VCard and a SocialEntity whose card it is were
either ruled out completely or asserted completely by statements in the ontology.

I personally find that the class of "business card" is one which I do not
want to have any data about.  (In fact for me it maps best 
not to a node in the graph but to the RDF document whose contents is the graph.
Important for provenance in that respect, but not part of this ontology).

My personal take on this in 1990 was the contact: ontology, which had the classes

	SocialEntity (subclasses: Person, Organization)
and
	Location

and properties 

	home, work, vacation

link a Person (say) to a Location.  Locations 

Similarly I could imagine properties like

	site, headquarters, deliveriesPlease, corporateSeat

would link an Organization to a Location.

(I was extra careful in making street, city, postcode, country properties of the address of a location not of the location itself, allowing a location to have >1 address, or two organizations to have
notional locations which were different and had different phone numbers but the same address.
I used it for mapping my contact stuff out of Outlook into RDF.  I needed "assistant" as Outlook has "Asssitant phone number".)

In all this a "card" has no useful place I can see.  Nor is there a 1-1 correspondence between it and anything except for possibly SocialEntity.  So I would be in favour of the practice of translating VCards into information about a Social Entity (or an Organization or a Person), and not a card.

Tim

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On 2011-01 -04, at 09:03, Dave Reynolds wrote:

> On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 13:28 +0100, William Waites wrote: 
>> * [2011-01-04 11:49:43 +0000] Dave Reynolds <dave.e.reynolds@gmail.com> écrit:
>> 
>> ] Is VCard that bad? It fits your example below just fine.
>> 
>> The only problem I see with the example is that we don't have counties
>> in Scotland, we have districts. In Quebec and Louisiana and other
>> historically catholic places we have parishes. Is Scotland a "state"
>> in the American sense, not really. You could use things like vc:county
>> and vc:state and just say that the naming is bad, I guess.
> 
> Agreed, that's one reason not to make up another set of address terms
> such as Phil's ex: examples.
> 
> The vcard terms (locality, region) strike me as reasonably neutral
> whereas ex:county is not.

Yes.  In fact, a convention for mapping between them
would be useful, even if it is in the comments in the ontology
so that if you click though from locality is says "such as a city (US) or parish (Scotland)".
Guidance for ontology users in the ontology file is useful.

(Presumably e.g. OSX's Address Book has defined this mapping as they
will format all your addresses (whatever country they are in) in your chosen
local style of any of many countries.)

Tim




Address	
type	Class
contact point	
type	Class
comment	A place, or mobile situation, with address, phone number, fax, etc. Related to a person by home, office, etc. Note one person's workplace may be another person's home. A person may have more than one home and more than one workplace. (In practice it sometimes maybe useful with restriucted datasets to assume that this is not the case, when extracting data from other ontologies with no concept of ContactLocation). Strongly related to a person: in some ways a role that a person can be in.
label	contact point
fax	
label	fax
subClassOf	phone
Female	
type	Class
Language Code	
type	Class
Male	
type	Class
mobile	
label	mobile
subClassOf	phone
Pager	
subClassOf	phone
Person	
comment	A person in the normal sense of the word.
subClassOf	Social Entity
phone	
type	Class
comment	 An end-point in the public swiitched telephone system. Anything identified by a URI with tel: scheme is in this class.
label	phone
tel.
Social Entity	
type	Class
comment	The sort of thing which can have a phone number. Typically a person or an incorporated company, or unincorporated group.
subject to change	
label	subject to change
address Property	
type	Property
address	
type	Property
domain	contact point
label	address
range	Address
assistant	
type	Property
comment	A person (or other agent) who is an assistant to the subject.
domain	http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Agent
label	assistant
ramge	http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Agent
birthday	
type	Property
domain	Social Entity
range	Date
child	
type	Property
city	
domain	Address
country	
domain	Address
department Name	
domain	Person
description	
type	Property
email	
type	InverseFunctionalProperty
comment	emailAddress is a string. Use of this is discouraged. Use :mailbox instead 
domain	Social Entity
label	email
range	 Email Address
example	

emergency only	
type	Property
domain	Person
label	emergency only
range	contact point
family Name	
domain	Person
fax	
type	Property
domain	contact point
range	fax
first Name	
domain	Person
full name	
type	Property
label	full name
given Name	
domain	Person
home	
type	Property
domain	Person
label	home
range	contact point
home Page	
type	InverseFunctionalProperty
subPropertyOf	web page
address Property	home Page Address
home Page Address	
type	InverseFunctionalProperty
comment	Use is discouraged
name	
type	Property
comment	A person may be known as various strings. For example, an email friendly name string. If you have an email from someone using a string as the human-readable phrase, then it is reasonable to assume that there are :knownAs that.
label	name
last Name	
domain	Person
mailbox	
type	InverseFunctionalProperty
domain	Social Entity
range	Mailbox
address Property	mailbox URI
example	 Dan
mailbox URI	
type	InverseFunctionalProperty
comment	mailboxURI is a string. Use of this is discouraged. Use :mailbox instead 
domain	Social Entity
range	 URI
example	 Dan
middle Initial	
domain	Person
middle Name	
domain	Person
mobile	
type	Property
domain	Person
label	mobile
range	contact point
mother Tongue	
type	Property
domain	Person
range	Language Code
nearest airport	
type	Property
comment	?X nearestAirport ?Y locates ?X in an international context; for example, for the purpose of organizing a face-to-face meeting of a W3C working group. This property is intended to mitigate privacy risks of giving out detailed contact info.
label	nearest airport
seeAlso	http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2001Nov/0006.html
9
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/200303/geo/intro.html
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/webont-airports.rdf
http Range 14
work	
type	Property
domain	Person
label	work
range	contact point
organization	
domain	Person
participant	
type	Property
comment	A person (or other agent) who particpates in an event, meeting, etc.
label	participant
ramge	http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Agent
partner	
type	Property
domain	Person
range	Person
personal Suffix	
domain	Person
personal Title	
domain	Person
phone	
type	Property
domain	contact point
range	phone
postal Code	
domain	Address
preferred	
type	Property
comment	A string which is the URI a person, organization, etc, prefers that people use for them.
label	preferred
public Home Page	
subPropertyOf	home Page
sort name	
type	Property
comment	re-arranged for lexicographic ordering; ala Doe, John
label	sort name
region	
type	Property
domain	Address
label	region
street	
domain	Address
street2	
domain	Address
street3	
domain	Address
title	
domain	Person
vacation	
type	Property
domain	Person
label	vacation
range	contact point
web page	
type	Property
comment	A related web page
label	web page
zip	
subPropertyOf	postal Code
persistence Policy	
seeAlso	http://www.w3.org/1999/10/nsuri