Re: [foaf-dev] Question about expressing age using foaf

I was curious about the bio vocabulary...  It isn't clear from what I've read how terms should be nested.  Some things might be common sense though.  For example, in a genealogy application, or anywhere you use the term, marriage would only contain other terms but would not hold any value in itself, right?  Should this be distinguished from "is married to"?  Immediately, my reaction is that this is obvious because the latter has a value that is a person.  Whereas, marriage is an event and it needs an identifier but what type if value would you use.  Does this make sense that the documentation for a vocabulary should have specifications for this kind of parent-child or container structure?
Thanks,
Bruce 

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On May 21, 2011, at 3:50 PM, Karen Coyle <[email protected]> wrote:

> Quoting "Hogan, Aidan" <[email protected]>:
> 
>> 
>> The only alternative external property I can find is:
>> 
>>    http://dbpedia.org/ontology/birthDate
>> 
>> Hope this helps.
> 
> 
> You can also use bio (http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/), as we do in the  
> Open Library:
> 
> <bio:event>
> <bio:Birth>
> <dcterms:date>9 July 1901</dcterms:date>
> </bio:Birth>
> </bio:event>
> 
> There is also a date of birth (and date of death) in RDA (Resource  
> description and Access):
> 
> http://rdvocab.info/ElementsGr2/dateOfBirth
> http://rdvocab.info/ElementsGr2/dateOfDeath
> 
> Full date of birth is one of the more common and accurate  
> triangulation points for identity theft and therefore shouldn't be  
> used on open networks.
> 
> kc
> 
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Aidan
>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: [email protected] [mailto:foaf-dev-
>>> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Alexander Gödde
>>> Sent: 21 May 2011 13:13
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: [foaf-dev] Question about expressing age using foaf
>>> 
>>> First of all - first time mailing on any kind of developer mailing list.
>>> So somebody please let me know if I'd better mail specific people, or
>>> there's some other kind of faux pas I'm committing by this.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On to the question:
>>> 
>>> I want to add some info about the people at Tavendo to the company website
>>> and the blog. Part of that information is age. I don't care about the
>>> precise age - being off by a year either way doesn't hurt. It's just that
>>> I think age gives important information about the background of people,
>>> and often eases communication because you can make more correct assumption
>>> about others.
>>> 
>>> foaf:age serves well in principle, but I don't really want to have to
>>> update this information. It's just not a very satisfactory solution.
>>> 
>>> Then I thought about just giving the year of birth for foaf:birthday - but
>>> this doesn't take a year at all as far as the spec says.
>>> 
>>> So: Is there any way that I'm missing in which I could give the year of
>>> birth?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Alexander Gödde
>>> 
>>> Intellectual Property Professional
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> +49(0)9131 940 3575
>>> 
>>> +49(0)176 81 032 874
>>> 
>>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>>> 
>>> skype: alexander.goedde <skype:alexander.goedde?call>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> tavendo_with_phrase_small
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Tavendo GmbH · Am Weihersbach 13 · 91074 Herzogenaurach · Deutschland
>>> 
>>> Office / Postanschrift : Waldstrasse 18 · 91054 Erlangen · Deutschland
>>> 
>>> +49(+)700 GO TAVENDO · +49(0)700 46 828 36 36 · www.tavendo.de
>>> <http://www.tavendo.de/>
>>> 
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>>> Tobias Oberstein
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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