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Hi, going beyond the referencing or denotation of other "real-world entities" than people by accessing different types information resources, see the presentations from an interesting workshop at the WWW2006 conference Identity, Reference, and the Web http://www.ibiblio.org/hhalpin/irw2006/ I did espcially liked the presentaions - In defense of ambiguity, by Pat Hayes http://www.ibiblio.org/hhalpin/irw2006/presentations/HayesSlides.pdf - PRIs (Public Resource Identifiers), by Steve Pepper http://www.ibiblio.org/hhalpin/irw2006/presentations/Public_Resource_Identifiers.ppt Regards Kerstin Forsberg Principal Information Architect Information Strategy, Clinical Information Science AstraZeneca KC5, S-431 83 Mölndal, Sweden Phone: +46 31 7065318 Mob: +46 708 467495 Mailto:[log in to unmask] Public homepage: http://www.viktoria.se/~kerstinf/ -----Original Message----- From: General DCMI discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Cecil Somerton Sent: 11 december 2006 15:54 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: people metadata Folks, For emerging discussion on people and identity please see http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_12/schneider/index.html Thanks Cecil E. Somerton Information Management Analyst | Analyste de gestion de l'information IM Strategies | Stratégies de la gestion de l'information Chief Information Officer Branch | Direction du dirigeant principal de l'information Treasury Board of Canada, Secretariat | Secrétariat du Conseil du Trésor du Canada Ottawa, Canada K1A 0R5 613 946-5053 | [log in to unmask] | facsimile/télécopieur 613 946-9342 -----Original Message----- From: General DCMI discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Andrew Wilson Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 5:02 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: people metadata Exactly. What Pete says - the Agents WG is not limited in the way that Liddy suggests. John Robert and I, the co-chairs of DC-Agents, have been trying to get interest and involvement for the last couple of years with absolutely no result. The Agents WG is working on developing a way of describing agents - at the moment we are changing the WG into a task Group consisting intially of myself, Dan Brickley, and Tom Baker to look at whether and how FOAF meets the needs of the DC community for describing agents. Perhaps this discussion could be copied to the DC-Agents email list? cheers Andrew Wilson Quoting Pete Johnston <[log in to unmask]>: > Liddy, > >> I think that DC agents is a group who are working on what should be >> the DC way to approach vales for such elements as creator, >> contributor, publisher, etc while I think the encyclopaedia people >> want to describe people, not resources.... > > Sorry, I don't understand the distinction you are making here. > > People are resources. In the terms of the DCMI Abstract Model, the > "values" for the creator, contributor, publisher etc properties _are_ > people (well, they are "entities" or "agents", which might also be > resources other than people, like organisations or services). > > So, as Irvin says, yes, this - the description of agents - is > _exactly_ the remit of the DC Agents WG. Scanning the mailing list > archive > > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/DC-AGENTS.html > > suggests that the Agents WG has received almost no interest for at > least the last couple of years. > > Pete > -- Andrew Wilson [log in to unmask]