Re: [vcard] Notes and questions from VCard/RDF #swig and F2C Meeting: Friday Jan 26th 12:00ET

Phil,

    We were thinking that the "shortname" requirement would be fulfilled
in vCard/RDF by v:nickname [1], whose domain we would then make
compatible with foaf:Agent. Tell me if this doesn't work!

[1] http://www.w3.org/2006/vcard/ns#nickname

Phil Archer wrote:
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> Harry Halpin wrote:
>> Everyone,
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>>     While there was unfortunately no official scribe, I did manage to
>> take some notes of what the general feeling of the meeting was. Aside
>> from what is obvious from the #swig archive [1] is that there was two
>> general points being made.
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>> 1) The first was brought up by Kjetil Kjernsmo, also representing
>> concerns from Phil Archer regarding using vCard in the Web Content WG
>> over the use of the "nick" property. Currently the "v:nickname" property
>> has a VCard class domain, which they believe won't work since they need
>> a "shortname" to represent not only people but organizations such as
>> "I.B.M." who may want to label contet.
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> I should jump in here and apologise for not actually being present at
> the meeting (in my defence, m'lud, I was receiving some very welcome
> information from Fabien and Kjetil brought up the issue perfectly.
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> We need a shortname property of some kind so we can refer to W3C cf.
> World Wide Web Consortium. If foaf:nick has this semantic, OK, we can
> use it, if not, then yes, we need to define it somehow. There are near
> synonyms we could use - "shortname", "colloquial", "acronym",
> "displayname",
> "is_that_the_full_name?_I_never_knew,_I_always_just_use_the_short_name"
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> Cheers
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> Phil.
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>> 2) TimBL brought up a generalization of the point: He would like the
>> domain of all vCard information that is about either people or
>> organizations, such as "v:fn" or "v:bday", to have a domain not as
>> v:VCard but of something more like foaf:Agent. Otherwise, it appears
>> that "the card has a full name" or "the card itself has a birthday",
>> which seems wrong. While the card clearly does have properties like
>> time-stamped revisions (v:rev), it would be a mess to conflate that type
>> of information with information about the "thing the card is about." In
>> other words, the card is a type of indirection that holds information
>> about some other thing, and so the domain of this indirect information
>> should *not* be v:vCard.
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>> 3) Lastly, we had a very long and not so productive conversation about
>> naming ordering, in particular honorific-prefixes and suffixes, and
>> simply surrendered on any sane way to keep this internationalizable
>> beside just encouraging people to use just v:fn and v:sort-string and
>> not to use prfefies and suffices, alothough they should be modelled for
>> sake of "round-tripping" between hCard and vcard ontologies.
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>>     I'll try to add these into the note as soon as I get my head a bit
>> further around DocBook...
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>>              -harry
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>> [1] http://chatlogs.planetrdf.com/swig/2007-01-26.html
>> Norman Walsh wrote:
>>> / Harry Halpin <hhalpin@ibiblio.org> was heard to say:
>>> |     There will another IRC #swig meeting to discuss vCard in RDF,
>>> this time
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>>> I wasn't able to attend, but I have now read the chatlog. It was a bit
>>> hard to follow without the audio :-)
>>>
>>> If the participants approved explicit changes to the vCard ontology, I
>>> didn't successfully glean them from the record. Please let me know if I
>>> overlooked them.
>>>
>>>                                         Be seeing you,
>>>                                           norm
>>>
>>>   
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		-harry

Harry Halpin,  University of Edinburgh 
http://www.ibiblio.org/hhalpin 6B522426

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