Re: gender: Why does vCard Ontology define class hierarchy instead of skos:Concept resources ?

On 5 Jun 2014, at 00:25, Andreas Kuckartz <A.Kuckartz@ping.de> wrote:

> The vCard Ontology uses a class hierarchy to formulate gender values
> (vcard:Female, vcard:Male, vcard:None, vcard:Other and vcard:Unknown as
> subclasses of vcard:Gender).

The vCard Ontology is a mapping of RFC6350 (not a bespoke new vocabulary).
Hence the "semantics" are normatively defined in that specification, such as for gender values [1].

However, in many cases, the vCard Ontology properties (such as hasGender) are defined as object properties, so other options are supported beyond the RFC6350 specification. In this case, other URIs can be used for gender values.

Cheers...
Renato Iannella
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[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6350#page-32

Received on Thursday, 5 June 2014 06:33:00 UTC