Re: [goodrelations] semantically modelling a balance

On 8 May 2013 08:52, Martin Hepp <martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org> wrote:

> Manu:
>
> The quick answer is that GoodRelations does not cover monetary
> transactions.
> You could, in theory, model monetary amounts by reusing the
> PriceSpecification class, but at least currently, there is no super-class
> gr:MonetaryAmount. We may add that at some point.
>

Thanks, in that case I'll use Manu's suggestion.


>
> What you could model with GoodRelations is the offer to carry out monetary
> transactions (e.g. currency conversion services), but the focus here would
> be on the terms and conditions of the service, and not on the service
> itself.
>

That is something that could be very interesting to model, especially with
the recent rise of ripple.


>
> May I also kindly ask you to continue this thread in the Web Payments
> forum if it no longer deals with GoodRelations issues, since many
> subscribers to the GoodRelations list are mainly interested in how to use
> GoodRelations and understandably unhappy with off-topic discussions?
>

Apologies if this thread has drifted off topic wrt GR, was just a quick
radar check to see if I could reuse something existing.

Will contining on webpayments only.


>
> Thanks!
>
> Best wishes
>
> Martin
>
>
>
> On May 8, 2013, at 4:13 AM, Manu Sporny wrote:
>
> > On 05/07/2013 05:23 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
> >> is there a way to model a balance using commerce vocabs?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> >> for example: alice has 10 euros
> >
> > I wouldn't model Alice as having 10 Euros... Alice has an account that
> > contains 10 Euros.
> >
> > {
> >  "@context": "https://w3id.org/payswarm/v1",
> >  "id": "http://example.com/alice",
> >  "name": "Alice",
> >  "account":
> >  {
> >    "id": "http://example.com/alice/accounts/savings",
> >    "type": "Account",
> >    "label": "Savings Account",
> >    "amount": "7563.00",
> >    "currency": "EUR"
> >  }
> > }
> >
> >> or account XYZ has 10 bitcoins
> >
> > {
> >  "@context": "https://w3id.org/payswarm/v1",
> >  "id": "http://example.com/bob/accounts/retirement",
> >  "type": "Account",
> >  "label": "Retirement Account",
> >  "amount": "2.12498",
> >  "currency": "BTC"
> > }
> >
> > Note that in the above two examples, EUR and BTC will resolve to a
> > relative URL when they really should resolve to a currency URL like:
> >
> > https://w3id.org/currencies/EUR
> >
> > or
> >
> > https://w3id.org/currencies/BTC
> >
> > Currently, we have only created the USD currency. If you'd like, we can
> > add EUR and BTC as well. Or, you can submit a pull request for the
> > PaySwarm context here:
> >
> >
> https://github.com/web-payments/payswarm.com/blob/master/contexts/payswarm-v1.jsonld#L103
> >
> > And then some re-direction entries here:
> >
> > https://github.com/perma-id/w3id.org
> >
> > Let me know how you'd like to proceed.
> >
> > -- manu
> >
> > --
> > Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny)
> > Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
> > blog: Meritora - Web payments commercial launch
> > http://blog.meritora.com/launch/
> >
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