Re: Personal URI?

No, I think this is very bad, since that URI may potentially be assigned and
point to something else.

One way the people are referred to is by eamil address - for example the
Friend-of-a-friend work refers to a thing of class person which has the
email address mailto:foo@bar - this works if the person has their own email
account. If they don't, it gets harder still. Essentially the power to give
things a name so you can refer to them in RDF is identical to the power to
create content on the Web - so you could create some decsription of a person,
send it to an archived email list, and refer to that (if you are happy with
the idea that a URI refers directly to a person, instead of using a #fragment
to point to the bit of the dereferenced document that explains that you mean
a person).

Cheers

Chaals

On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, John Evdemon wrote:

>
>On 6 Aug 2002 at 17:56, Peter Bruhn Andersen wrote:
>>
>> What is the best way to describe a person that has no unique URI? This
>> person has no email address or web site of his own but works for
>> various organisation. Using the URL of one or the other of the
>> organisations is not acceptable.
>>
>
>Possibly:
>	http://FirstNameMiddleNameLastName+DOB
>	Where DOB = Date of Birth
>
>
>
>

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