[rdfweb-dev] Redundant tags and tidying the foaf set

[Julian Bond]

Some of my thoughts on tidying the set of foaf tags.

- There's a bunch of "joke" tags. We should spin them out into their own
namespace. (jokeFOAF:) eg dnaChecksum, geekcode, myersBriggs

- Name seems to be problematic. Do we really need all of name, nick,
givenname, surname, family_name, firstName, title. I'd suggest reducing
these to name, title, firstName, lastName and spinning nick out into an
IRC namespace

- Webpage and IM Chat look to me like primitives that have multiple
types. Rather than thisWebpage and thatWebpage, shouldn't it be webpage
type=""? and instead of thisIMChat and thatIMchat, <im service=""
rdf:resource="URI">

- Just as with webpage, so with project and image. There's overlap in
currentProject, pastProject, fundedby and img, logo, thumbnail,
depiction, depicts

- People have locations. I'm still trying to find a reasonable vocab for
including an address. Unless there's a good namespace already out there,
I'd like to see a simple address tree. Perhaps
<foaf:thing>
  <address type="home|work">
    <street></street>
    <town></town>
    <state></state>
    <country></country>
    <zip></zip>
  </address>
</foaf:thing>

- Looking at the names, there's no consistency in capitalization.
There's capitalized, lower case, run together, separated by _,
camelcase. Should be easy to fix.

Coming from a SQL world it looks to me like this data is un-normalised
with excessive redundancy and that it's evolved by accretion. Which I
guess is what happened!

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