RE: a question on use of RDF

A framework which can provide this, and other metadata requirements for
e-commerce, is INDECS (Interoperability of Data in E-Commerce Systems).  I
recommend anyone who is seriously interested in structured metadata (about
people and other entities) to take a look at
http://www.indecs.org/results/results.htm  
One of the things they are working on is a proposal for practical solutions
for the unique recognition of "people" (human and corporate entities) given
different identities in different schemas.

INDECS plans to have RDF implementation.  There is also a forthcoming
conference ("Names, Numbers and Networks") in Washington which will be of
interest to many readers of this list
(http://www.indecs.org/news/washington.htm

Norman Paskin (n.paskin@doi.org)


-----Original Message-----
From: Charles McCathieNevile [mailto:charles@w3.org]
Sent: 24 September 1999 17:40
To: Sankar Virdhagriswaran
Cc: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Subject: Re: a questioin on use of RDF


Sankar

Are yu thinking of something like dublin core, but more particularly
informative about the publisher/author of the site?

Charles McCN

On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Sankar Virdhagriswaran wrote:
[snip]
  The problem I would like to address is the meta-data description about a
  site (yes, I do mean site - not a page nor the structure of the web site
--
  we can go there later, but KISS is what I am going after). I want to have
  individuals, companies, organizations, etc. describe some thing about
  themselves in an RDF description. An individual can think of it as his/her
  business card. A corporation or private organization can think of it as
the
  information they file to a governmental body when they get incorporated. A
  Governmental institution can think of it in a similar fashion. Maybe a
  semantic search engine will then index sites based on the information
  provided in these "Calling cards".
[snip]  
  Sankar

Received on Tuesday, 28 September 1999 07:16:45 UTC