[rdfweb-dev] Fifty Words

[Dan Brickley]

* Julian Bond <julian_bond at voidstar.com> [2003-07-25 19:49+0100]
> We have this thing on Ecademy which is 50 words about yourself. (note 
> this is 50 individual words not a 50 word sentence) It's a surprisingly 
> therapeutic thing to do.
> 
> Anyway, we've got lots of this data. I've been wondering if this could 
> be usefully dumped into a FOAF file. I've had two suggestions, 
> <dc:subject> and <rdf:RDF xmlns:bio="http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/">
> <bio:olb>
> 
> Any comments?

Sounds like a nice idea. Do you have some examples, I'm curious...?

re how to represent it, none of the above seem quite right. 
dc:subject is typically applied to documents, and bio:olb sets 
expectations of a coherent sentence.

Unless I've forgotten a relevant property, sounds like good one to 
add to and RDF vocab. Either in a new vocabulary (another namespace URI to
remember) or to FOAF or bio:. I'd be quite happy to see it go into 
FOAF (flagged as 'unstable' initially) to see whether it could get 
any traction beyond Ecademy. Perhaps the TypePad folk might be 
interested in it, for example.

One question: are the '50 words' typically expected to be associated 
with one's work persona (Ecademy having a business networking slant, 
after all) or are they more informal. I mean, do they tend to be 
things like 'Excellence; pragmatism; dilligence, ...' or do people 
let their guard down a bit and put more personal/interesting content
there?

Dan