Creating an RDF vocabulary for events
There is already a standard! - RFC 2445 -
iCalendar...but
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it doesn't do what we want in terms of mixing people, places etc with events
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it is difficult to extend
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it is long and difficult to understand (events, especially repeating events
are complex to model)
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it is difficult to discern the authors' intentions in some cases
- there's a divergence between specification and reality: overlapping,
partial implementations
'Translating' a schema is difficult and slow:
especially when you are trying to work out what a group meant when
they were writing in their own special language, and translate it to
your own special language.
RDFiCal: libby.miller@bristol.ac.uk, 2003-11-03