Standard people
Dec. 3rd, 2004 01:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
progCurrent 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.
HR-XML
Date: 2004-12-03 09:14 pm (UTC)http://www.hr-xml.org/channels/projects_main.cfm
They have broken down common HR information into individual schemas. Might not be exactly what you want, but it could be a good starting point.
Shawn