Re: Use cases - friending

On 21 Sep 2014, at 18:29, ☮ elf Pavlik ☮ <perpetual-tripper@wwelves.org> wrote:

> On 09/21/2014 05:21 PM, Evan Prodromou wrote:
>> On 14-09-20 01:30 PM, ☮ elf Pavlik ☮ wrote:
>> We have a lot of use cases listed here:
>> 
>> https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg/Use_cases
> "Friending: As a user on a social network, I would like to add other
> social network users to my friends list, and vice versa, as a basis for
> further interaction."
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> maybe we could fiddle with that all together? :)
> 
> next week i would like to export lists of my friendships and followings
> from twitter, facebook and google+, then publish it on my independent
> website: https://github.com/elf-pavlik/webprofiled/issues/5
> 
> for now NOT trying to handle friending/following interaction itself but
> just publish who i know and who knows me! plus maybe publishing later in
> my personal feed activity about establishing such new relationships
> 
> i plan to use JSON-LD + schema.org vocab + hydra:Collection. while
> working on that i could try to compare it with how other people here do
> it with Microformats, FOAF, AS2.0 Collections etc.

That seems like a very good use case. 

What is needed is just a way to notify someone - given their WebID [1] -
that one has added them to one's list of friends with a message.
It is really easy to specify a very simple "protocol" along Web2.0 lines.
as described in the paper "Friending on the Social Web"
   http://bblfish.net/tmp/2011/05/09/ 
But we should now be able to extend this for LDP in a way that would
be much more extensible.

The nice thing about LDP is that we don't need to care wether we use JSON-LD
or Turtle or even RDF/XML. We can specify this in terms of: 

 1. given a WebID find the messaging LDPC for that WebID - perhaps a specialised
    friending Messaging LDPC. 
 2. POST a friending graph - what would that look like

That seems to be about it. The person to whome the friend request has been
made can then do the same thing symmetrically.

Henry


[1] http://webid.info/spec/


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