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

[Bruce D'A. <bd...@fa...>]

On Jan 12, 2004, at 6:59 PM, Morten Frederiksen wrote:

> In the FOAF project we'll likely soon(tm) be revisting the subject of 
> names,
> and also how to model the various levels of ownership and "levels" of 
> a work.

Hmm...this sounds intriguing.  Can you explain the last bit?  Sounds 
like FOAF is treading into the realm of bibliographic metadata  ;-)

> ... perhaps a long-term project goal could be to have users
> world wide contribute to getting all movie-people's names "marked up" 
> within
> a model like the above proposes...

Also interesting.  One issue is that of what the library community 
refers to as authorized data, of which there are two aspects:

1)  How to ensure names are properly marked up in the distributed world 
of something like FOAF?

2)  I wonder if there needs to be some communication with the library 
world on this?  There is a lot of effort (and money) invested in the 
controlled name data that the library community refers to as "authority 
records."  The LoC is even working on an XML Schema for these data.  I 
wonder if there's an argument to be made not only that such data 
ultimately ought to be served on the web, but that perhaps it might be 
designed to be RDF compatible?

Bruce