RoleVocab

From FOAF

A vocabulary to describe that an in which role a person participates in a group or organization (I suppose organization to be a subclass of group).

Issues:

- integrate into foaf vocabulary rather than dedicated schema (replacing faof:member)?

- more intuitive terms

- subclasses of Particpipations intead of role-property?

Example(This could be more compact uing rdf:parseType="Resource"),

<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" 
xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#" 
xmlns:owl="http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#"
xmlns:role="http://wymiwyg.org/ontologies/foaf/role#"
xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/">

	<foaf:Person>
		<foaf:name>Jo Activist</foaf:name>
		<role:participates>
			<role:Participation>
				<role:group>
					<foaf:Group>
						<foaf:name>Friends of Foaf</foaf:name>
					</foaf:Group>
				</role:group>
				<role:role>
					<role:Role>
						<role:denotation>Hacker</role:denotation>
						<role:abbreviation>hk</role:abbreviation>
					</role:Role>
				</role:role>
			</role:Participation>
		</role:participates>
	</foaf:Person>
</rdf:RDF>

Another example:

<foaf:Person>
     <foaf:name>Dan Brickley</foaf:name>
     <role:participates> 
          <role:Participation> 
               <role:group> 
                    <foaf:Organization> 
                         <foaf:name>W3C</foaf:name>
                         <foaf:homepage  rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/"/>
                    </foaf:Organization> 
               </role:group> 
               <role:role> 
                    <role:Role> 
                         <role:denotation>Employe</role:denotation> 
                    </role:Role> 
               </role:role> 
               <foaf:homepage rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/People/DanBri/"/>
          </role:Participation> 
     </role:participates> 
     <role:participates> 
          <role:Participation> 
               <role:group> 
                    <foaf:Group> 
                         <foaf:name>SWIG</foaf:name>
                         <foaf:homepage  rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/interest/"/>
                    </foaf:Group> 
               </role:group> 
               <role:role> 
                    <role:Role> 
                         <role:denotation>Chair</role:denotation> 
                    </role:Role> 
               </role:role> 
          </role:Participation> 
     </role:participates>
</foaf:Person>

The schema:

<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" 
	xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#" 
	xmlns="http://wymiwyg.org/ontologies/foaf/role#" 
	xml:base="http://wymiwyg.org/ontologies/foaf/role">
	
 <rdfs:Class rdf:ID="Role">
  <rdfs:label xml:lang="en">Role</rdfs:label>
  <rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">Describes a Role (Function/Position) agents may have within a Group</rdfs:comment>
 </rdfs:Class>
 
 <rdfs:Class rdf:ID="Participation">
  <rdfs:label xml:lang="en">Participation</rdfs:label>
  <rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">Describes that and in which Role an Agent participates in a group</rdfs:comment>
  <!-- should possibly be subclass of agent -->
 </rdfs:Class>
 
 
 <rdf:Property rdf:ID="participates">
 	<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">participates</rdfs:label>
 	<rdfs:label xml:lang="de">partizipiert</rdfs:label>
	<rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">Associates a participation to an agent</rdfs:comment>
 	<rdfs:domain rdf:resource="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Agent"/>
	<rdfs:range rdf:resource="#Participation"/>
 </rdf:Property>
 
 <rdf:Property rdf:ID="role">
 	<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">Role</rdfs:label>
 	<rdfs:label xml:lang="de">Rolle</rdfs:label>
	<rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">The role of the participator in the group</rdfs:comment>
 	<rdfs:domain rdf:resource="#Participation"/>
	<rdfs:range rdf:resource="#Role"/>
 </rdf:Property>
 
 <rdf:Property rdf:ID="denotation">
 	<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">Denotation</rdfs:label>
 	<rdfs:label xml:lang="de">Denotation</rdfs:label>
	<rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">A denotation of the role (e.g. "Chief Ideologist")</rdfs:comment>
 	<rdfs:domain rdf:resource="#Role"/>
	<rdfs:range rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#Literal"/>
 </rdf:Property>
 
 <rdf:Property rdf:ID="abbrevation">
 	<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">Abbrevation</rdfs:label>
 	<rdfs:label xml:lang="de">Abkürzung</rdfs:label>
	<rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">The abbreviation for the Role (e.g. "CEO")</rdfs:comment>
 	<rdfs:domain rdf:resource="#Role"/>
	<rdfs:range rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#Literal"/>
 </rdf:Property>
 
 <rdf:Property rdf:ID="group">
 	<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">Group</rdfs:label>
 	<rdfs:label xml:lang="de">Gruppe</rdfs:label>
 	<rdfs:range rdf:resource="#Participation"/>
	<rdfs:domain rdf:resource="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Group"/>
 </rdf:Property>

</rdf:RDF>

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