Help defining person

Please provide me any references to standards efforts for class/table
definitions for common classes. For instance, what should be the
standard table name and column names for a person table?

I have found an RFC related to this in the LDAP space (links:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2798.html) but am looking for something
general for databases. I expect something also exists for XML and
started to find something about persons at
http://ns.hr-xml.org/2_2/HR-XML-2_2/CPO/PersonName.pdf but guess I was
looking more for an ER diagram or a class diagram.

Any ideas where to start looking for this information?

Thanks,
TimJowers

Tim> Please provide me any references to standards efforts for class/table
Tim> definitions for common classes. For instance, what should be the
Tim> standard table name and column names for a person table?

Tim> I have found an RFC related to this in the LDAP space (links:
Tim> http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2798.html) but am looking for something
Tim> general for databases. I expect something also exists for XML and
Tim> started to find something about persons at
Tim> http://ns.hr-xml.org/2_2/HR-XML-2_2/CPO/PersonName.pdf but guess I was
Tim> looking more for an ER diagram or a class diagram.

Tim> Any ideas where to start looking for this information?

Like you might have guessed, there is no standard definition of person since
there are different reasons you store information of a person. For example,
CIA has different needs than a video rent shop. Anyhow, you might like to
check vcard; I guess it is used quite often with PDAs, email programs and so
on.

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