Standard people
Current tech hunt: finding a standard, or at least standard-ish, way to represent a person or an organization in an XML document. I hate having to re-re-re-re-re-invent a "person"-type element every time I come up with a new schema (which, you may infer, is something I'm doing today for ICCB). But while there's been a good standard for representing the origins and qualifications of authored resources for years (the Dublin Core), there doesn't seem to be any equivalent for people-pointers.
The nearest mark I've hit so far is a W3C note on representing vCards as RDF. vCards seem to be the market-winning technology, and they're not as flexible as I need, but I might be able to make them work for the nonce. Still, I'd love to hear if any of y'all have further insight.
The nearest mark I've hit so far is a W3C note on representing vCards as RDF. vCards seem to be the market-winning technology, and they're not as flexible as I need, but I might be able to make them work for the nonce. Still, I'd love to hear if any of y'all have further insight.