[oslc-core] Question on use of foaf:Person

[Olivier Berger]

Hi.

Le samedi 04 septembre 2010 à 12:26 -0400, Samuel Padgett a écrit :
> Hi, Scott. Appendix A says this,
> 
> >> "There is an additional constraint for foaf:Person. Implementations 
> MUST specify either a non-empty foaf:name value or both a non-empty 
> foaf:givenName and foaf:familyName values." [1]
> 
> A lot of providers don't require a real name when creating user IDs. 
> ClearQuest is one example. I'm not sure how to handle this case as it's a 
> MUST per the spec.
> 
> Also I share Ian's concern that this is potentially sensitive information.
> 

I'm not sure such requirements are problematic, since the name might as
well just be set to "unknown" or "(not provided)" or "(masked)" or
whatever ...

I think it's great for potential interoperability with LOD [0] to use
widely used ontologies like FOAF to describe persons, but no one says
that its properties may be authoritative in any way, right ?

Just my 2 cents,

[0] http://linkeddata.org/
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