- From: Harry Halpin <hhalpin@ibiblio.org>
- Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:45:54 +0000
- To: Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Cc: Josef Petrák <me@jspetrak.name>, Renato Iannella <renato@nicta.com.au>, Semantic community Web <semantic-web@w3.org>, "public-xg-socialweb@w3.org" <public-xg-socialweb@w3.org>, foaf-dev Friend of a <foaf-dev@lists.foaf-project.org>
2010/2/15 Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>: > Yes a good question, Renato, and thanks Josef, > It would be good if someone could have a go from a further distance. > So I'll try a different question, which I think we should be able to answer: > I think it's natural to have "friends" and "personal details" a bit separate - that's what's done in microformat world with XFN and hCard, so its not only a SemWeb "design pattern". > "I want to publish some SemWeb about myself, mainly in relation to my > professional activities. What do I do?" > > Should I fire up foaf-wizard or vCard-wizard? > Or both? If so, what will help me only enter data once? Well, given the earlier point, ideally at some point it would be great if FOAF would incorporate direct mappings of PortableContacts, which is then in turn a superset of vCard. Thus, vCard would be a strict subset of FOAF. However, I'm not sure what the FOAF community wants here precisely. I'd be happy to use Social Web XG call time to have this discussion. > > Best > Hugh > > On 12/02/2010 01:38, "Josef Petrák" <me@jspetrak.name> wrote: > >> Good question, Renato. >> >> Looking at both ontologies FOAF is about describing both people and >> groups/organisations and relations between people or membership in such >> groups. >> >> vCard [1] proposes concept of business card which can describe people, >> organisation or both. see the definition of vc:VCard: "Resources that are >> vCards and the URIs that denote these vCards can also be the same URIs that >> denote people/orgs" And in my opionion this is quite messy. >> >> I hope, it answers you question abouot nontechnical point of view. >> >> Josef >> >> [1] http://www.w3.org/Submission/vcard-rdf/ >> >> On Feb 12, 2010, at 12:58 AM, Renato Iannella wrote: >> >>> On 12 Feb 2010, at 01:03, Josef Petrák wrote: >>> >>>> This could introduce official way to integrade and distinguish FOAF and >>>> vCard. >>> >>> Changing the thread a little (and at the risk of being controversial...;-)... >>> >>> What are the "big" or "key" *differences* between FOAF [1] and vCard [2]? >>> >>> (not "technical" diffs...) >>> >>> Cheers... Renato Iannella >>> NICTA >>> >>> [1] http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/ >>> [2] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-vcarddav-vcardrev-09 >> >> > > >
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