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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