Human Relationship Ontology

Abstract

In FOAF vocabulary, many kinds of relationships between people are deliberately simplified as "knows" relation. So far, there are several attempts to describe relationships between people. However, to strengthen the expressive power and at the same time to avoid confusion of many relationships, we have to make an ontological consideration in the first place. This paper makes some considerations on relationship between people, and based on that discussion we describe some proposals toward a new relationship vocabulary.