The Art of Modeling Names

This is the first in a series about cross format data modeling principles. In the data modeling realm, there is perhaps no example that is as ubiquitous as modelling personal names. After all, things don't get much simpler than a name: This isn't really a model, but rather an instance of a model - an actual example that proves out the model. There are, however, a number of ways that such a model can be described. What you see is a set of assertions that identify that there exists a class named "person", and that this class has two properties.