I saw this asked on Twitter.
If you wanted to store your address book in FOAF, what elements could you use for things like home address? FOAF does not seem to have anything for it, so could something like Vcard be used?
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There is an old W3C note from 2001 - Representing vCard objects in RDF/XML - that may be helpful. Update: Some more search brought up a more recent ontology for vCards, found via semanticweb.org |
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What you could also try is the Talis Address Schema: |
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GeoSpatialMeaning.eu has a nice GIS ontology that includes a RoadFeature as well as other features you might find useful. It might be overkill for you though depending on your use. If you want simpler then the VCard solution above, or GeoRSS might be better. I haven't worked with VCard geo info, but have with GeoRSS. It's not hard to use and there are a lot of off the shelf tools. Street address is not directly supported. Yahoo's solution to that is to use geocoding behind the scenes to translate street addresses into lat/long coordinates. For more info see Yahoo's extended GeoRSS documentation Another resource that may be useful is the Geonames ontology/KB Microformats.org also has a good run down of a bunch of location naming attempts. |
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