[rdfweb-dev] fwd [Bug 7] New: firstname/surname/given/family underspecified,inconsistently documented

[Dan Brickley]

* Leigh Dodds <ldodds at ingenta.com> [2003-02-20 17:00-0000]
> When MortenF proposes a resolution I'll fix up the FOAF-a-Matic to make 
> sure its doing the right thing ASAP. I won't do anything just yet to make 
> sure I don't end up making multiple changes.

Yup, seems sensible.
> 
> Given that the FOAF-a-Matic produces a fixed output, I could probably 
> knock up an XSLT stylesheet to allow people to automatically fix up their 
> data. Wouldn't work for all FOAF though.

That, or other quick hack (perl script etc) seems useful. I think most 
tools use foaf:name so breakage shouldn't be too bad, but it'd be a shame 
to let folks down who'd taken the time to be an early adopter. By far the 
majority of foaf rdf files created by non-members of rdfweb-dev was via
foaf-a-matic, i'm sure, so the format should be pretty regular.
 
> Making sure that the various bloggers on this list communicate that 
> changes have taken place should also ensure that people catch on quick 
> so we can clean up the data pretty quickly.

Good plan!

Dan