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

[Dan Brickley]

Mikael Nilsson wrote:
> 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."

Doh. I stand corrected :) So much for my nice diagram. I didn't notice 
the org->agent arrow. Maybe I'll make it <blink/> next time...


> 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 :-)

I got it right by giving all possible answers ;)

"Even a stopped clock keeps the right time twice a day" ...

Dan