[foaf-dev] foaf:mbox but not IFP?

Dan Brickley danbrickley at gmail.com
Mon Jan 14 18:19:58 GMT 2008


On 14/01/2008, KANZAKI Masahide <mkanzaki at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since the domain of foaf:mbox is foaf:Agent (super class of Group,
> Organization as well as Person), it'd be better not to use 'personal
> mailbox' as its label. (and its comment, too).
>
> It's confusing to see 'Personal mailbox' for organization mbox in Tabulator ....

This is a good point. We might talk about abstract persons, but that's
really a stretch. I wonder what label we could use instead...

Dan

> cheers,
>
> 2008/1/5, Dan Brickley <danbrickley at gmail.com>:
> > Yup, I was about to suggest Group, which you can just write as
> > <Agent>, since all groups are agents. There are some properties which
> > are Person-only (see http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/images/foafspec.jpg
> > (unless you've tabulator installed, sorry)) but in general that should
> > work.
>
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