Re: [libdb-develop] Re: On Naming A Person and The Cultural And Familiar Divide

[Morbus I. <mo...@di...>]

 >http://rdfweb.org/topic/NamesInFoaf

Indeed. Although the site seems to be down now (danbri mentioned he was 
changing servers recently - may be just a side effect of that), he and
I have had discussions about it in the past. Once this site comes back
up, I'll see what I can see, but the current plan is to:

Define person with the following fields:

    name         = full name, unparsed, undetermined.
    given_name   = as you'd expect, "Morbus".
    family_name  = as you'd expect, "Iff".
    lang_name    = corresponds to xml:lang.

This gives us:

  * the flexibility for aggregators to do their work
    with unparsed name without user intervention.

  * manual labor to specify (or modify) the given
    and family's during manual addition or standard
    editing practices.

  * support for eventual serialization and
    specific cultural understanding with xml:lang.

Thoughts?

Incidentally, I swear to God, I'm gonna start working on those pages again 
tonight. Been very hectic with article writing and a bunch of other jazz, 
so I didn't get much (ok, ok, any) stuff done last week.


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