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F1. first name and middle initial #57

Closed congruili closed 9 years ago

congruili commented 9 years ago

Can we create a term which reflects a string containing a person’s first name and middle initial, similar to foaf:firstName and foaf:lastName? Or, is foaf:givenName, which we have been using in-lieu of gcis:firstName, sufficient? (Someone’s comment): What about foaf:name or foaf:nick? The original intent of foaf had heritage in social networking context though.

bduggan commented 9 years ago

givenName makes sense (and probably we should change the database field to "given" too) since this is the term used by crossref, which is a source of much of the data.

zednis commented 9 years ago

:+1: for using foaf:givenName in general.

I believe the original question resolves around whether there is an appropriate property for a first name + middle initial (e.g. "Stephan T."). I believe foaf:givenName is valid for this use case.

justgo129 commented 9 years ago

Fine here. Also, the question resolves around use of the first initial and middle name (e.g. "John Doe" has an official name of "A. John Doe." We have several examples of this in GCIS.

justgo129 commented 9 years ago

To clarify my comment, is foaf:givenName used correctly at: http://data.globalchange.gov/person/903.thtml

If so, then I'd say let's close this issue since it won't involve changes.

zednis commented 9 years ago

@justgo129 I think so. givenName was defined so that it would not be as restrictive as firstName and could handle 'describing parts of people's names'. I think our current usage of the property is consistent with it's intent and we can close this issue without making any changes.

justgo129 commented 9 years ago

Great. I will close #57 and denote it as such on the list of proposed changes. Result of issue: no change in template necessary,