I am also very interested in a core metadata schema which could capture the
essential attributes of individuals as 'knowledge objects'. This would
presumably include not only attributes for uniquely identifying an
individual in a given circumstance (i.e. organizational or social context)
but also attributes for describing the subject domain(s) of their knowledge,
the extensivity and intensivity of their experience and its currency (i.e.
'recentness'). Such a schema could also most usefully include some means of
recording their position in a social or organizational network in terms of
their adjacent 'nodes' and the nature of the ties.
Bob
Principal Associate
InfoPlex Associates, UK
www.infoplex-uk.com
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Sent: 08 December 2006 09:37
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Subject: people metadata
Hello!
I have spent the last two days at a most inspiring workshop on
encyclopaedias. The participants have built very impressive systems
and content publications built on metadata. The group need some kind
of thing that can act as authority files for their encyclopaedia and
dictionaries of poeple/biographies... they want to be able to form
reliable links between content sets that can rely on identification
of people. They want to be able to classify thr authority of people
in some cases and the interests of authors/users in others.
See http://jod.id.au/anzdeg/index.php/Main_Page
The group unanimously asked if, on their behalf, I would convey to
the DC community that they thought that it would be good if the DC
community could work on person descriptions, and that it would be a
very popular move.
I am interested to know if others feel the same way and would be
interested in doing such work?
Liddy
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