[uf-discuss] Ufs on bbc.co.uk/music

[Michael Smethurst]

On 5/7/07 13:37, "Paul Wilkins" <paul_wilkins at xtra.co.nz> wrote:

> Michael Smethurst wrote:
> 
>> Seem to remember at the time I asked what the line of demarcation would be
>> between people as people and people as organisations. Are you just saying
>> music artists? What about actors, politicians, bloggers? Music artists who
>> act? Actors who become politicians? Politicians who blog?
>> 
>> Feels like you're splitting the world into 2 camps: celebrities and others.
>> Unless it's clearer what the logic is going on here I'm not happy to do this
>>  
>> 
> 
> You have three ways of formatting a name for use in an address book.
> 
> 1. n (family-name, given-name, additional-name, honorific-prefix,
> honorific-suffix)
> Where you can mark up the explicit parts of the name with the above
> class names.
> See http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard#Property_List
> 
> 2. fn n
> Where the name can be guaranteed to be one of the defined formatted name
> structures
>  * given-name (space) family-name
>  * family-name (comma) given-name
>  * family-name (comma) given-name-first-initial
>  * family-name (space) given-name-first-initial (optional period)
> See http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard#Implied_.22n.22_Optimization
> 
> 3. fn org
> Where it is the name of not necessarily a person, but of an organisation
> with a varied naming structure.
> http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard#Organization_Contact_Info
> 
> There is a clear demarcation line here.

Understood

But that wasn't the demarcation line I was talking about - I meant when does
a person become an organisation? Is it a function of production or fame or
what? If Bob Dylan is considered an organisation why not Bill Clinton?
> 
> If you can guarantee that the name will be given as family-name,
> given-name, etc... then Option 1 is used.

I can't

> If you can at least guarantee the the name will be valid as a formatted
> name, then Option2 is used.

Again I can't

> If neither of those two can be guaranteed, you're left with Option 3 or
> nothing.
> 
> There is a strong case for considering artist names as their
> organisational name. Their names are widely varying, and often have
> nothing to do with the persons individual name itself.

For now I disagree. Again if you could tell me when and why a person
qualifies to be considered as an organisation I might be persuaded. But
without rules anyone might be marked up as org. I'll remove them for the
next code deploy and re-title this thread "lack of ufs on bbc.co.uk/music"
;)


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