[rdfweb-dev] About Names

[Peter Saint-Andre]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 06:52:21PM -0400, Karl Dubost wrote:

> Le jeudi, 24 juil 2003, ? 15:43 America/Montreal, Morten Frederiksen a  
> ?crit :
> >
> - 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 

Has anyone looked at pulling in xNL?

http://xml.coverpages.org/xnal.html

We might look at the xAL aspect of xNAL for addresses, too. Both of
these are a bit on the heavy side, but they certainly are complete!

> >> and spinning nick out into an IRC namespace

There are nicks other than IRC nicks. One might even have a different
nick on IRC than on Jabber, say.

> >(My updated suggestion would be to get rid of anything but foaf:name  
> >and foaf:nick, and leave the rest to somebody else...)

That might be the best way to go. IMHO, of course. :)

Peter

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