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

[Ian Green1]

Hello Olivier,
In the cases you mention, not offering a name is more informative than 
providing canned text.  Clients can interpret "UNSAID" as they see fit.

The foaf vocabulary does not require "name", or "lastName" etc, so OSLC 
should consider why it wants its providers make this promise.

best wishes,
    -ian

ian.green at uk.ibm.com (Ian Green1/UK/IBM at IBMGB)
Chief Software Architect, Requirements Definition and Management
IBM Rational

oslc-core-bounces at open-services.net wrote on 04/09/2010 18:39:49:

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> Re: [oslc-core] Question on use of foaf:Person
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> Olivier Berger 
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> to:
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> oslc-core
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> 04/09/2010 18:40
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> 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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> Olivier BERGER <olivier.berger at it-sudparis.eu>
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