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

[Morten F. <mo...@mf...>]

Hi all,

This just a quick note to introduce myself: Morten Frederiksen, Denmark:=20
Freelance developer etc., mostly working with RDF in general and FOAF...

On Monday 12 January 2004 21:00, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
> See this for an RDF-specific discussion:
>      http://rdfweb.org/topic/NamesInFoaf
=2E.. where the issues of names came up (again) last year, resulting in t=
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above draft proposal.

Bruce pointed me to this project from a post of his, but it turns out I'd=
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already heard a bit about it, and have run into Morbus before.

In the FOAF project we'll likely soon(tm) be revisting the subject of nam=
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and also how to model the various levels of ownership and "levels" of a w=
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I shall soon be reading up on FRBR...

On the names issue, I think it's best in the long run to get something=20
"right", not just stick to first name and last name, western idiosyncrasi=
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However, I do realize that it's not at the top of the priority list of th=
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project, and that getting initial data into it may be impossible without=20
simplification, but perhaps a long-term project goal could be to have use=
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world wide contribute to getting all movie-people's names "marked up" wit=
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a model like the above proposes...


Anyway, I'm currently busy with other stuff, but will follow this list an=
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project (there's obviously some overlap with the FOAF project), hopefully=
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being able to contribute something sometime.


Regards,
Morten