Re: A question on the vocabulary for 'persons'

I am just popping into this thread. Why don't we look at RIM (HL7 
Reference Information Model)?
They distinguish 'entities' (a person is an entity) and roles: 'patient', 
'doctor', etc are examples of roles. That gives you an easy way of using a 
standard description of a person, common to other communities, reusing 
what exists, and still you can add properties to the rol 'patient' to have 
whatever you need, specific in Health Care and Life Sciences.

you can download the RIM model at 
http://www.hl7.org/library/data-model/RIM/modelpage_mem.htm

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Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com> 
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13/09/2006 06:47

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Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
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Re: A question on the vocabulary for 'persons'








I had been using FOAF as a basis and then adding relations as needed.
-Alan

On Sep 12, 2006, at 10:52 AM, Ivan Herman wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> we would need some feedback...
>
> There were some brainstorming on what vocabularies to use for the 
> simple
> notion of 'Person' in various settings. There is old W3C note for 
> an RDF
> version of vCard[1], but another version was created by Norm Walsh a
> while ago[2]. And, of course, there is FOAF.
>
> The issue came up because some people would like us to update the old
> [1] note but, if we want to do that seriously, it is not necessarily
> that easy (the vCard spec itself is not soooo o.k.).
>
> Hence the question as a feedback: what does the HCLS community use for
> something like 'Person'?
>
> Thanks for the feedback
>
> Ivan
>
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/vcard-rdf
> [2] http://norman.walsh.name/2005/12/12/vcard
> -- 
>
> Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead
> URL: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/
> PGP Key: http://www.cwi.nl/%7Eivan/AboutMe/pgpkey.html
> FOAF: http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.rdf#Me