- From: Norman Gray <norman@astro.gla.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:05:47 +0000
- To: Semantic web list <semantic-web@w3.org>
On 2006 Nov 27 , at 18.22, Norman Walsh wrote: > There are several properties in the vCard ontology that are > conceptually "the same as" some other properties from other > ontologies. Off the top of my head: > > http://www.w3.org/2006/vcard/ns#latitude > http://www.w3.org/2006/vcard/ns#longitude > http://www.w3.org/2006/vcard/ns#nickname > http://www.w3.org/2006/vcard/ns#family-name > http://www.w3.org/2006/vcard/ns#given-name > http://www.w3.org/2006/vcard/ns#bday > > It seems to me that we can/should/could either deprecate all of these > in favor of the properties from other namespaces or we could keep the > local aliases and make them (some flavor of) sameAs the other > properties. Since the vCard ontology is really a derivative of the vCard standard, then it would seem eccentric to start unilaterally deprecating bits of it. It might also probably be counterproductive, as Kjetil said. It would also thwart a simple-minded (ie, immediately intelligible) .vcf -> .rdf translation. If all the tags in the vCard spec are present, undeprecated, in the target ontology (including declared relations to other ontologies), then such a translator might not be that much more elaborate than a sed script. Which would be nice. If someone writing such a utility has to grok the documentation for a bevy of other ontologies, it's suddenly a more elaborate, and errorprone, project. It's not as if either the vCard or other ontologies is likely to change _so_ rapidly that this becomes a maintainance burden, is it? Also, re > http://www.w3.org/2006/vcard/ns#latitude > http://www.w3.org/2006/vcard/ns#longitude these are not "the same as" the geo: ontology, but are instead more generic (correctly: c.f. the other thread). See you, Norman -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- Norman Gray / http://nxg.me.uk eurovotech.org / University of Leicester, UK
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