[foaf-dev] Time to make the foaf classes relate to Dublin Core classes?

[Mikael Nilsson]

On ons, 2008-01-23 at 13:12 +0000, Dan Brickley wrote:

> 
> > An additional comment - dcterms:AgentClass is in my mind completely
> > disjoint from Agent. OTOH, a foaf:Group is also an Agent, so that makes
> > a third argument why the two classes are different.
> 
> Agents are things that can act. A group of people can act together. That 
> was my thinking anyway. This stuff does get fiddly to think about for 
> sure, especially when Project and Organization are floating around too. 
> We don't currently model either of those as agents. 

?

<rdfs:Class rdf:about="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Organization">
    <rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Agent"/>

is what I see. That's good - as it will make foaf:Organizations usable
as values for the various contributor properties in DC. cf. the comment
on dcterms:Agent: "Examples of Agent include person, organization, and
software agent."

Project - well I don't think a Project has the power to act. The Org
behind a project, maybe.

So, in short, I think you got it right :-)

/Mikael


> 
> BTW I began an overview diagram of FOAF classes and properties, to 
> include in the spec. It is even a clickable imagemap, but I have a 
> problem - I need to resize it to fit in the spec, and haven't found an 
> imagemap tool that does that on my mac. Maybe I need to cross the room 
> to use the Windows machine :) In the meantime, here is the work in 
> progress. It should hopefully help a bit to get an overview (note also 
> some DCMI properties over on the right hand side).
> 
> http://danbri.org/2008/foafspec/map-foafspec.html
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Dan
> 
-- 
<mikael at nilsson.name>

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose