[rdfweb-dev] foaf use case: vegetarian / airline bookings

[Danny Ayers]

Nice idea. They always manage to screw up my wife's order. The downside is
that I'll miss out on double portions of pork medallions (I was veggie for
years, but eat anything these days).

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dan Brickley [mailto:danbri at w...]
>Sent: 19 December 2002 02:36
>To: rdfweb-dev at yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [rdfweb-dev] foaf use case: vegetarian / airline bookings
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>It should be possible to expose one's vegetarianism via FOAF.
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>eg by using the class http://xmlns.com/wordnet/1.6/Vegetarian
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>I've often thought this (yes, usually when checking in for some
>flight while they're saying "You should have told us earlier, we may not
>have many vegatarian meals left on this flight".
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>Wordnet also has a class Vegan. I don't think it has the same categories
>(eg. lacto, asian etc) that airlines use to distinguish the different
>flavours of vegetarianism.
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>Anyway, it'd be sweet if travel agents etc could, since they know
>your name etc.,
>do a quick check of your FOAF file during booking and say "there's
>a Web record of a
>Dan Brickley who is a vegetarian, might that be you? should we
>book a vege meal
>for this flight?" or somesuch.
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>The markup is easy, just add
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><rdf:type rdf:resource="http://xmlns.com/wordnet/1.6/Vegetarian"/>
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>or
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><rdf:type rdf:resource="http://xmlns.com/wordnet/1.6/Vegan"/>
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>...directly inside the main Person entry within a FOAF document.
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>While this may (ahem) cater for computing types who fly too much
>in their work,
>it seems both useful, and simple. Just wanted to get it written
>down at least.
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>Dan
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