- From: Morten Frederiksen <mof-rdf@mfd-consult.dk>
- Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 13:03:21 +0100
- To: Stephen Rhoads <rhoadsnyc@mac.com>, semantic-web@w3.org
Stephen, On Friday 04 March 2005 23:49, Stephen Rhoads wrote: > What is/are the preferred or most widely accepted ontology(s) for > publishing the below information about an Entity such as a Person or > Corporation? > - Physical Address Even though it may not be preferred (it's old), the vCard stuff [1] seems most widely used. > - Email Address I don't think there's any doubt that this should be foaf:mbox [2] (or its deriviate, foaf:mbox_sha1sum). > - Phone Number vCard has one, contact [3] has another, I'd go with the latter. All that said, there's room for a comprehensive vocabulary (perhaps a merger) for stuff like this - even though physical addresses are hard due to multicultural and other i18n issues. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/vcard-rdf [2] http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/index.html#term_mbox [3] http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/pim/contact# Regards, Morten
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