[rdfweb-dev] About Names

[Karl Dubost]

Le jeudi, 24 juil 2003, à 19:07 America/Montreal, Peter Saint-Andre a 
écrit :
> Has anyone looked at pulling in xNL?
>
> http://xml.coverpages.org/xnal.html

It's not enough. In case of names it's far to be complete and very 
oriented for business

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ciq/ciq.shtml
	"""- About 36+ customer name formats"""

The only way I see a possibility for that is in fact to have a 
reference to an ontology of name, so if someone has a particular name, 
he can use the right data for it.


Representing People's Names in Dublin Core [1]
	The Appendix is interesting to read.

[1] http://dublincore.org/documents/name-representation/


Why I'm a bit pushy on that point, because it illustrates one of the 
problem of Semantic Interoperability between different cultures. An 
ontology or organization of data might have strong influence on 
cultures. It's another way to modify other cultures by imposing a 
cultural model. We have to be very careful in that.
	

* other references mostly business oriented  *** :/ ***. In foaf, I 
think it's not about describing customers but real persons (when it's 
not another entity)
	http://www.globalwebarch.com/freesite/RDBMS-GG-C06.html#C06-2-1-1-1