- From: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:02:06 -0500
- To: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
- Cc: Hans Teijgeler <hans.teijgeler@quicknet.nl>, 'Dan Connolly' <connolly@w3.org>, semantic-web@w3.org, 'Steven Pemberton' <Steven.Pemberton@cwi.nl>
> Internationalization is fun, but we should be careful. If we want to
> solve all possible problems in vCard, we may spend a LOOONG time on
> that. We may have to finalzie what we have today and forget about these
> issues for now...
There are several different questions here:
- what was the hidden ontology of the vCard designers?
- what are the dominant (hidden) ontologies of the vCard users?
- what is a good ontology for this application space?
The last one is a whole lot of fun. I think it's best approached by
first figuring out all the different contexts in which different names
might be used for someone. But for vCard/hCard, maybe the context is
pretty clear -- you just want the name as it appears on a business card.
(Maybe there are several of those -- business card in native language(s)
and business card in English, but those can probably be handled by
language tagging on the literal.)
-- Sandro
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