From what I have heard about FOAF, i think that's exactly what you want.

Andrew

Eric Lease Morgan wrote:

> What is a good XML schema for describing people?
>
> At the present time MyLibrary essentially contains two tables. One for
> information resources and one for terms to describe the information
> resources. The former is essentially Dublin Core plus a few additional
> fields. This has proven quite useful since it makes it easy to map MARC
> to MyLibrary as well as map harvested OAI data to MyLibrary. We have
> created an RDF representation of our MyLibrary database; A version of
> RDF is the canonical exchange file format for MyLibrary.
>
> As MyLibrary moves forward we plan to put the "my" back into MyLibrary.
> In doing so we will need a table for describing people. Sort of like
> the resources table, I would like to base the people table on an XML
> schema so things can be easily imported and exported.
>
> I have heard of FOAF (Friend of a friend). What other schemas might
> y'all suggest?
>
> --
> Eric Lease Morgan
> University Libraries of Notre Dame