Personas for FOAF
Buzzword.org.uk Namespace 2 June 2010
- This version:
- http://ontologi.es/persona-20100602
- Latest version:
- http://ontologi.es/persona
- Editor:
- Toby Inkster
Copyright © 2010 Toby Inkster, some rights reserved.
Copyright © 2010 Toby Inkster, some rights reserved.
Some people have multiple personas. For instance Agatha Christie published both under her own name and under the name Mary Westmacott; U2's Bono is a distinct persona from Paul Hewson; Clark Kent and Superman are two personas used by the Kryptonian visitor Kal-El in the Superman series of comics, films and associated spin-offs. Sometimes in RDF, one wishes to model these different characters separately; at other times, we wish to recognise that they're each facets of the same individual. This vocabulary provides a structure for describing in RDF the many personas a person might have; it is an extension to the popular FOAF vocabulary.
The prefix to use for this vocabulary is http://ontologi.es/persona#.
The following image attempts to show the relationship between foaf:Person resources (in green) and Personas (in blue).
Related work: For a different approach, more appropriate when an actor is playing a role, take a look at the BBC's Programmes ontology. To model online accounts, you probably want SIOC. Finally, to associate a single person with different (possibly non-overlapping) collections of contact details, vCard in RDF is probably the way to go.
| Subclass of | skos:Concept |
|---|
A persona or identity adopted by someone. This may be their main or only identity. This is a resource distinct from the URI they use to identify themselves as a foaf:Person. For instance, Batman and Bruce Wayne are the same foaf:Person, but different Personas. While Michael Keaton and Adam West (amongst others) have played Batman on screen, that is a different kind of relationship, and may be better off modelled with a separate vocabulary.
| Subproperty of | moat:localMeaning |
|---|---|
| Domain | Persona |
| Range | foaf:Agent |
Associates a Persona with a Person. Some personas may be associated with multiple people; some people may have multiple personas.
| See also | foaf:maker |
|---|---|
| Range | Persona |
Associates a work (book, recording, painting, etc) with the Persona that is generally credited as creating it. Note that due to the many-to-many mapping between People and Personas, it is not usually possible to automatically infer foaf:maker/dc:creator properties from this.