> What I'm basically talking about here is if you have a class, WikiWord,
> page, subject called EricKim, it should be unique. (01)
The problem being that EricKim almost certainly isn't unique as a name. This
is a similar problem to that of identifying people with a URI (gets messy!).
The best handling of the issue I've seen is in FOAF [1], where a person is
in effect known by their characteristics. (02)
<foaf:Person>
<foaf:name>Dan Brickley</foaf:name> (03)
<foaf:mbox_sha1sum>241021fb0e6289f92815fc210f9e9137262c252e</foaf:mbox_sha1s
um>
<foaf:homepage rdf:resource="http://rdfweb.org/people/danbri/"; />
<foaf:img
rdf:resource="http://rdfweb.org/people/danbri/mugshot/danbri-small.jpeg"; />
</foaf:Person> (04)
I think most tools currently use the email address(well, the sha1 hashed
text of it) as the unique id, except this can be used by more than one
person (shared mailbox). In that case it's possible to key off the names or
any other property as well. (05)
In the context of Wikis, there is nothing to stop a Wiki page carrying the
assertion that it is about that person (to be harvested by the ontology
agent). (06)
Cheers,
Danny. (07)
[1] http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/ (08)
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