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

Jim Ley jim at jibbering.com
Thu Jul 24 16:21:13 UTC 2003


"Julian Bond" <julian_bond at voidstar.com>

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

Yep, they could be moved.

> - 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

I think you need to read up on i18n issues, MortenF did a good review of
this, and nick has nothing specific to IRC, name and nick has already been
proposed as being all that's in foaf - title firstName and lastName would be
disastrous.

Jim.




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