[Person-ontology] Greetings, and intro

[paola.dimaio at gmail.com]

Greetings to all!

I have been invited to join this list by James Schoening as there is
potential synergy with some other work that I am doing -

W3C Incubator
esw.w3.org/topic/Charter_for_a_Proposed_W3C_Incubator_Group


Expertfinder
lsdis.cs.uga.edu/~aleman/efw2007/


I first became involved with 'person schema' working with Ka-Ping on
the Katrina Peoplefinder project, at the time I was hoping we could
RDFize  the people finder schema and asked Peter Mika to help with
that (I would not trust myself with it)  which he kindly did. (both in
cc)

It turned out that katrina people finder was not the best schema we
could have come up with, but admittedly that was all we had at the
time (literally a quick minutes job) and  nobody had given it enough
thought - so I am very glad to see it come up again, we need
soemthing!

Earlier this year, when I heard of the expertfinder group (link above
I though it would be good to revive my interest in person schema and
see if we could add an additional property called 'expert', however,
modeling expertise is non trivial, although I imagine it can be cut
pretty quickly for simplicity if needed

Now my 'expertfinder for emergency and poverty relief' project,
initially proposed at the first expertfinder workshop in Berlin
earlier this year,  has received a little bit of funding, enough, I
hope, to make a first attempt to create an easily pluggable foaf type
person schema that has an additional property called expert . I
discuss some of the ideas in my paper and slides
lsdis.cs.uga.edu/~aleman/efw2007/items/maio.php

however before I can do so I need to synch up with anyone else working
along the same lines, otherwise it wont work

When James posted the link to this group, I asked so how is HIGGINS
compare to foaf and sioc? James says he was working on an answer :-)

In summary, in addition to any good discussion, I am looking for input
to help me
create a first draft for an 'expertfinder for emergency', a person
schema capable of capturing expertise (verified or not verified),
geolocation, availability and contact for the expert

. I have been in situations whre had I been able to contact an expert
by phone, I may have been able to save a life. As I had to wait for an
ambulance to arrive, half an hour or so, the person died. I think new
technology could perhaps help us improve on that, and there are a lot
of circumstances to help us make this case.

Look forward to discussion
Best

PDM






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-- 
Paola Di Maio
School of IT
www.mfu.ac.th
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