I wish the conflation of a VCard and a SocialEntity whose card it is were
either ruled out completely or asserted completely by statements in the
ontology.
I personally find that the class of "business card" is one which I do not
want to have any data about. (In fact for me it maps best
not to a node in the graph but to the RDF document whose contents is the graph.
Important for provenance in that respect, but not part of this ontology).
My personal take on this in 1990 was the contact: ontology, which had the
classes
SocialEntity (subclasses: Person, Organization)
and
Location
and properties
home, work, vacation
link a Person (say) to a Location. Locations
Similarly I could imagine properties like
site, headquarters, deliveriesPlease, corporateSeat
would link an Organization to a Location.
(I was extra careful in making street, city, postcode, country properties of
the address of a location not of the location itself, allowing a location to
have >1 address, or two organizations to have
notional locations which were different and had different phone numbers but the
same address.
I used it for mapping my contact stuff out of Outlook into RDF. I needed
"assistant" as Outlook has "Asssitant phone number".)
In all this a "card" has no useful place I can see. Nor is there a 1-1
correspondence between it and anything except for possibly SocialEntity. So I
would be in favour of the practice of translating VCards into information about
a Social Entity (or an Organization or a Person), and not a card.
Tim
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On 2011-01 -04, at 09:03, Dave Reynolds wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 13:28 +0100, William Waites wrote:
>> * [2011-01-04 11:49:43 +0000] Dave Reynolds <[email protected]>
>> écrit:
>>
>> ] Is VCard that bad? It fits your example below just fine.
>>
>> The only problem I see with the example is that we don't have counties
>> in Scotland, we have districts. In Quebec and Louisiana and other
>> historically catholic places we have parishes. Is Scotland a "state"
>> in the American sense, not really. You could use things like vc:county
>> and vc:state and just say that the naming is bad, I guess.
>
> Agreed, that's one reason not to make up another set of address terms
> such as Phil's ex: examples.
>
> The vcard terms (locality, region) strike me as reasonably neutral
> whereas ex:county is not.
Yes. In fact, a convention for mapping between them
would be useful, even if it is in the comments in the ontology
so that if you click though from locality is says "such as a city (US) or
parish (Scotland)".
Guidance for ontology users in the ontology file is useful.
(Presumably e.g. OSX's Address Book has defined this mapping as they
will format all your addresses (whatever country they are in) in your chosen
local style of any of many countries.)
Tim
Address
type Class
contact point
type Class
comment A place, or mobile situation, with address, phone number, fax, etc.
Related to a person by home, office, etc. Note one person's workplace may be
another person's home. A person may have more than one home and more than one
workplace. (In practice it sometimes maybe useful with restriucted datasets to
assume that this is not the case, when extracting data from other ontologies
with no concept of ContactLocation). Strongly related to a person: in some ways
a role that a person can be in.
label contact point
fax
label fax
subClassOf phone
Female
type Class
Language Code
type Class
Male
type Class
mobile
label mobile
subClassOf phone
Pager
subClassOf phone
Person
comment A person in the normal sense of the word.
subClassOf Social Entity
phone
type Class
comment An end-point in the public swiitched telephone system. Anything
identified by a URI with tel: scheme is in this class.
label phone
tel.
Social Entity
type Class
comment The sort of thing which can have a phone number. Typically a person or
an incorporated company, or unincorporated group.
subject to change
label subject to change
address Property
type Property
address
type Property
domain contact point
label address
range Address
assistant
type Property
comment A person (or other agent) who is an assistant to the subject.
domain http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Agent
label assistant
ramge http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Agent
birthday
type Property
domain Social Entity
range Date
child
type Property
city
domain Address
country
domain Address
department Name
domain Person
description
type Property
email
type InverseFunctionalProperty
comment emailAddress is a string. Use of this is discouraged. Use :mailbox
instead
domain Social Entity
label email
range Email Address
example
emergency only
type Property
domain Person
label emergency only
range contact point
family Name
domain Person
fax
type Property
domain contact point
range fax
first Name
domain Person
full name
type Property
label full name
given Name
domain Person
home
type Property
domain Person
label home
range contact point
home Page
type InverseFunctionalProperty
subPropertyOf web page
address Property home Page Address
home Page Address
type InverseFunctionalProperty
comment Use is discouraged
name
type Property
comment A person may be known as various strings. For example, an email
friendly name string. If you have an email from someone using a string as the
human-readable phrase, then it is reasonable to assume that there are :knownAs
that.
label name
last Name
domain Person
mailbox
type InverseFunctionalProperty
domain Social Entity
range Mailbox
address Property mailbox URI
example Dan
mailbox URI
type InverseFunctionalProperty
comment mailboxURI is a string. Use of this is discouraged. Use :mailbox
instead
domain Social Entity
range URI
example Dan
middle Initial
domain Person
middle Name
domain Person
mobile
type Property
domain Person
label mobile
range contact point
mother Tongue
type Property
domain Person
range Language Code
nearest airport
type Property
comment ?X nearestAirport ?Y locates ?X in an international context; for
example, for the purpose of organizing a face-to-face meeting of a W3C working
group. This property is intended to mitigate privacy risks of giving out
detailed contact info.
label nearest airport
seeAlso http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2001Nov/0006.html
9
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/200303/geo/intro.html
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/webont-airports.rdf
http Range 14
work
type Property
domain Person
label work
range contact point
organization
domain Person
participant
type Property
comment A person (or other agent) who particpates in an event, meeting, etc.
label participant
ramge http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Agent
partner
type Property
domain Person
range Person
personal Suffix
domain Person
personal Title
domain Person
phone
type Property
domain contact point
range phone
postal Code
domain Address
preferred
type Property
comment A string which is the URI a person, organization, etc, prefers that
people use for them.
label preferred
public Home Page
subPropertyOf home Page
sort name
type Property
comment re-arranged for lexicographic ordering; ala Doe, John
label sort name
region
type Property
domain Address
label region
street
domain Address
street2
domain Address
street3
domain Address
title
domain Person
vacation
type Property
domain Person
label vacation
range contact point
web page
type Property
comment A related web page
label web page
zip
subPropertyOf postal Code
persistence Policy
seeAlso http://www.w3.org/1999/10/nsuri
