There are the FRBR entities defined for RDA: http://metadataregistry.org/schemaprop/list/schema_id/14.html that include family. kc Quoting Brian Tingle <[log in to unmask]>: > Hi, > > I'm working on a project where I have some XML that has > @xlink:role="person" @xlink:role="corporateBody" or > @xlink:role="family" on a certain element. > > I just learned that @xlink:role is supposed to be a URL [1] > > So I took a look at http://id.loc.gov/ and I could not find anything > that looked like it would work for this. > > Then I found http://vocab.org/ which lead me to http://vocab.org/frbr/ > where I found FRBR has > > http://purl.org/vocab/frbr/core#CorporateBody > and > http://purl.org/vocab/frbr/core#Person > > But is has nothing like the "Family" from EAC-CPF. > > I thought this might be a good place to check if anyone knows of a > pre-existing vocabulary that can handle this case? > > Would it be bad just to make up > "http://purl.org/vocab/frbr/core#Family" and use that? > > Could we use FRBR for CorporateBody and Person and get Family from > somewhere else? > > Thanks for any ideas or suggestions -- Brian > > > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xlink/#link-semantics > > The value of the role or arcrole attribute must be a URI reference as > defined in [IETF RFC 2396], except that if the URI scheme used is > allowed to have absolute and relative forms, the URI portion must be > absolute. The URI reference identifies some resource that describes > the intended property. When no value is supplied, no particular role > value is to be inferred. Disallowed URI reference characters in these > attribute values must be specially encoded as described in 5.4 Locator > Attribute (href). > -- Karen Coyle [log in to unmask] http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet