- From: Laurent Le Meur <laurent.lemeur@afp.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 18:52:31 +0100
- To: <semantic-web@w3.org>
FYI, The IPTC - the standards body for the news industry - has developed a "person" module for its News Architecture framework (acronym NAR). I will not details the framework here, let's say that it focuses on representing news, news packages, news events and concepts (topics) associated with news. It aims at being compatible with the sem.web but does not rely on RDF/XML, because 1/ RDF is too verbose for efficient real time data exchange (therefore we will use GRDDL to provide RDF mappings) 2/ concepts are modelled at a semantic level closer to Topic Maps. 3/ NAR represents not only metadata but also content (stories), better represented in pure semi-structured XML. We need to represent people, organisation, geopolitical areas, point of interests associated with news and news events. We end up with a person having 1/ generic properties of all types of concepts (names, definitions, editors editors notes) 2/ specific properties of a person (date of birth, date of death, gender, contact information, affiliations etc..) A public Candidate Recommendation of the NAR will be published in a few weeks. We are in touch with the W3C Multimedia Semantics Incubator Group for making NAR-RDF/XML mappings work well, and would be happy to share our views on a useful set of information about a person with other groups. Note: sorry, I won't be available for you irc. Laurent Le Meur IPTC NAR chair AFP Médialab -----Message d'origine----- De : semantic-web-request@w3.org [mailto:semantic-web-request@w3.org] De la part de Harry Halpin Envoyé : jeudi 2 novembre 2006 02:41 À : semantic-web@w3.org Objet : [spam] IRC Meeting about "People in RDF" - vCard/RDF, FOAF, and more 11:00 ET Friday #swig Everyone, There's currently at least two representations of "people" in RDF, FOAF[1] and vCard/RDF[2] (updated by Norm Walsh[3]). There may be more - what else is out there? I do remember some people in the life sciences also having a representation for people, but I can't find a URI for it. It would be great for the Semantic Web to attempt to make sure vCard/RDF maps in some standard manner to FOAF and vice versa, and also think about compatibility between both those efforts and microformats. For those in the Interest Group who would like to focus on this effort, please drop by #swig [4] at 11:00 EST this Friday Nov 3rd. Hope to see some of you there! [1]http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/ [2]http://www.w3.org/TR/vcard-rdf [3]http://norman.walsh.name/2005/12/12/vcard [4]irc://irc.freenode.net/swig -- -harry Harry Halpin, University of Edinburgh http://www.ibiblio.org/hhalpin 6B522426 This e-mail, and any file transmitted with it, is confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you have received this email in error, please contact the sender and delete the email from your system. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this email. For more information on Agence France-Presse, please visit our web site at http://www.afp.com
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