Re: a common understanding of profiles

On 06/26/2015 08:05 PM, Evan Prodromou wrote:
> On 2015-06-26 01:25 PM, Harry Halpin wrote:
>> Note this question was explicitly scoped to the Social Interest Group,
>> as obviously profiles are going to vary alot across systems and only the
>> most generic pieces of syntax. So, could we move this discussion there?
> I think profile management (read and update) is one of our key user
> stories for the Social API.
>>>> Pick a data standard, and a way to find the profiles. Then, everybody
>>>> implements that.
>>
>> +1 good to re-use a well-known standard.  Typically, that would be VCard
> We have a pretty good "Person" object in Activity Streams 2.0 (that's
> what I used in the example) which pretty well covers a Twitter- or
> Instagram-level profile (Full name, username, bio, location, avatar,
> additional links).
> 
> I'd think we should start with that and then enhance it with vCard as
> necessary.

Agreed if there is anything in that (avatar/bio/etc. I would assume)
that is outside of vCard. In order to prevent divergence, it would be
good time to go through and make sure any relevant property names are
aligned with vCard/hCard property names.

> 
> -Evan
> 
> 

Received on Friday, 26 June 2015 18:09:08 UTC