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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