Talk:LEAP person

Contact details
Should we have contact details in with a person?

Ideally, one refers to a vCard or FOAF file, or URL, which holds contact details. But if these are not available, then what?

A simple option is to have contact details as a text field. That wouldn't be able to be read in to another system.

A second option would be to have a link to a contact manager.

A third option would be to have (ideally borrow) an interoperable spec common among contact management system and PIM systems. Unfortunately that is likely to be something like vCARD. Ideally we would want something better, at least FOAF.

Maybe it would be better to have a separate structure, maybe called the "contact". This would hold just one contact method: one e-mail address, or one telephone, or one street address, etc. Effectively this would be an unpacking of vCARD or FOAF. Notes would attach to each contact, saying when it was usable. Of course, there would be a better mapping of individual identities to contacts, when they don't all have to be grouped together.