life, death and address books (was Re: [uf-discuss] hCard and Life Dates?)

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Tantek Çelik wrote:
> 'dday' struck me as wrong for this (this is a new term for the date of
> someone's death AFAIK, and collides with an existing well-known meaning for
> "DDay" which there is no reason to collide with AFAIK).
> 
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Day

In the spirit of microformats, it seems that 'dday' would be wrong for 
the simple fact that 'dtend' already exists and has a defined use 
fitting exactly what is being looked for.  Although if it were being 
used, I would assume you would need to use a 'vevent' to indicate that 
this is the date of death, and not the end date of employment, or the 
date that a person stopped working at a place or phone number.

http://microformats.org/wiki/existing-classes

> I suppose the truly morbid could reuse vCard's "adr" and/or "geo" to keep
> track of burial locations of the dead.

The first thing that popped into my head was genealogy work, where this 
would actually make a lot of sense.  ('location' in a death 'vevent' 
would presumably indicate the place of death).

> Still this just doesn't seem right to me.

Not that I'm proposing that hCard be used for genealogy, but if a 
genealogy format were made it would likely pull all relevant classes 
from hCard.  In fact, it would probably just be an hCard with a few 
missing/additional classes.


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