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July 13, 2004
As FOAF becomes more and more a "personal profile" RDF language as well as a form of "personal identification", people are going to want to add more detailed information about their preferences. What about politics? It's hot right now- worldwide.
So what about a MyPolitics FOAF extension? It would need to be internationalization-friendly. The person should be able to say what country their politics are with, (i.e. US), what party they affiliate with, (i.e. Democrat, Republican, Green, Libertarian, Independent, None), and what their politics are (i.e. conservative, liberal, far left, far right, moderate, centrist, anarchist, libertarian), and finally even be able to identify their views on certain issues from Marriage to Family Planning to the Environment.
Anyone have any ideas for RDF properties?
I like it, but you are going to find it hard to quantify.
Start with wordnet definitions of things stuff, expand out. Over here in Australia we have a different system to you guys, with labour + liberals being the two larger parties.
Perhaps
My Party Here
http://www.foobar.com
Optionally duplicate a foaf tipjar property; and rely on party specific RDF/OWL to define the relationships between larger political groups.
Also, perhaps define mp:Leader or something like that so you can foaf a political leader.
Add in stuff from a good events vocab, there's a few out there, in order to define party events or important other things.
Just a few thoughts.
Damnit it stripped out my tags.
mp:Party
mp:Leader
mp:title == dc:title
mp:tomepage == foaf:homepage
mp:tipjar == foaf:tipjar for mp:Party
Hi, there is such a vocabular that is trying to express what a persons political oriantation is. It uses a classical matrix to determine two numerical values... but, actually I have forgotten the name of the vocabular, the method and at whoms foaf file I saw that. Try mortens foaf explorer to find something like that... :)