Strawperson model for Person

[azaroth42]

Select most useful subset of FOAF as a strawperson

[azaroth42]

Strawprofile:

Person:

• rdf:type foaf:Person
• foaf:name, foaf:familyName, foaf:givenName, foaf:gender, schema:additionalName, schema:honorificPrefix, schema:honorificSuffix
• foaf:mbox, foaf:homepage
• schema:birthDate, schema:birthPlace, schema:deathDate, schema:deathPlace
• schema:affiliation
• schema:nationality
• foaf:knows

[azaroth42]

6 has the model for how accounts and people fit into the overall model. Removed account from the strawprofile.

[azaroth42]

Note that the above is based on the information managed by LCNAF, such as: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79005673.html

Note that LCNAF RDF is not usable directly, as the authority identifies a Concept, not a Person.

[no-reply]

Seems like a reasonable set of base properties, assuming they are optional (all of them? do we need a base label property for all of these classes?).

:+1: to foaf:Person, for sure.

[no-reply]

Note that LCNAF RDF is not usable directly, as the authority identifies a Concept, not a Person.

:+1:

[azaroth42]

So .... rdfs:label vs foaf:name?

[no-reply]

@azaroth42 Based on conversation with @hybox/drs-team group membership transitivity needs to be back on the table.

I'm going to ask them to generate user stories for that.

[no-reply]

We also have a open question about the need to have context-specific names.

If an author is credited under multiple names on different objects, we may need to be able to model the distinction.

@hannahfrost we would like to follow up on this.

[no-reply]

@hybox/drs-team suggests looking at ULAN for possible descriptive metadata.

[azaroth42]

rdfs:label and foaf:name (plus other name-y properties) are both useful. For example, a label of "Anonymous" or "Master of the Berry Apocalypse" is good, whereas those are clearly not names.

[azaroth42]

Context specific names seems very difficult, as it would mean reifying the name literals. I would push this out of scope unless there is a well established business value associated with it.