Re: DOAP and software description

Dear Edd,

I'm following up on a very old discussion relating to representing 
"software" as individual instances of a "project". We would need an 
actual software class, for instance to represent such listings:
  - <http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tools/complete>

A property such as "release" could be useful if its range is a class 
representing software, which could be a subclass of "project".

Do you have any updated thoughts on this?

Best,
   Shadi


On 17.3.2006 22:34, Edd Dumbill wrote:
> Sorry for the delay in responding.  You are right that the current
> vocabulary for describing releases is a little primitive.  It basically
> comes down to having multiple doap:release properties, e.g.
>
> 	<release>
> 		<Version>
> 			<name>unstable</name>
> 			<created>2003-06-07</created>
> 			<revision>0.4.1</revision>
> 		</Version>
> 	</release>
>
> That covers release dates, versions, names, you could hang extra
> properties off that.  CodeZoo added file-release to point to a
> tarball/zip, and I included that.
>
> I am open to considering new properties for inclusion based on a
> demonstration of the need for them.  I have been considering a vocab to
> represent dependencies for some time, for instance.
>
> You may also be interested in what Apache have done with DOAP,
> http://times.usefulinc.com/2006/03/17-doap-apache
>
> -- Edd
>
> On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 16:00 +0100, Karl Dubost wrote:
>> Hi Edd,
>>
>> DOAP is very useful in terms of the description of a project.
>> DOAP doesn't seem to cover the description of an individual software
>> like name, version, release dates, bug list, etc.
>>
>> I'm asking this because I was in ERT/QA joint meeting [2] yesterday.
>> The ERT WG in the design of EARL needs an "earl:software" [1] for
>> describing a specific software.  But using the earl namespace for
>> this seems to be a bit awkward.
>>
>> Have you already worked a bit on this?
>> Or do you have an example which would cover this case?
>> Or do you have pointers which might interest the ERT WG?
>>
>>
>> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/EARL10/#terms-classes-software
>> [2] http://www.w3.org/2006/02/28-er-minutes#item01

-- 
Shadi Abou-Zahra - http://www.w3.org/People/shadi/ |
   WAI International Program Office Activity Lead   |
  W3C Evaluation & Repair Tools Working Group Chair |

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