[Zope3-dev] Meta Data

Shane Hathaway shane@zope.com
Mon, 19 May 2003 11:29:32 -0400


Jim Fulton wrote:
> Garrett Smith wrote:
>> And one more, slightly more esoteric example/question: What about
>> something like "Person" content where the DC 'title' element might be a
>> function of the person's first and last name, e.g. "Mr. Jim Fulton".
>> Here it seems like we may be dealing with a read-only DC 'title'.
> 
> 
> Yes.
> 
> Note that the ambiguity of DC "title" contributes to the ambiguity here.
> Do people have "titles"? Do they have more than one?  DC allows many 
> different
> titles.

Actually, this kind of title is not a DC title.  It is a FOAF title. 
FOAF is a common vocabulary for describing people.

http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/

I think FOAF will be particularly interesting for annotating user objects.

Shane