Re: Wiki page Re: Proposal to develop best practice document to focus work of W3C FSW Community Group

On 12 May 2013 19:37, Andreas Kuckartz <A.Kuckartz@ping.de> wrote:

> I have started with an (almost) blank page:
>
>
> http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/federatedsocialweb/wiki/Best_Practices_for_the_Open_Social_Web
>

Excellent.

Perhaps one area that could be described is best practices for user
profiles.

Roughly speaking

1 Star

Have an identifier denoting a Person, such as an IRC nick -- you're on the
web.

2. Star

Have an identifier that is unique across domains, eg user@host or
example.com/user/joe

3. Star

Include a URI scheme such as mailto: xmpp: or http: so that discovery can
be performed on that identifier.  eg you may wish to lookup a persons name,
avatar. blog or public key.  Ability to reverse search is a plus too, so
that people can look up friends via their name for example.

4 Star

Have a standard API so that more information can be discovered.  e,g, HTTP
GET for HTTP, smtp or webfinger for email, xmpp discovery for xmpp.

5 star

Return data using web standards such as JSON LD or RDa in HTML.  Or
something that is interoperable with these standards.  Essentially this
boils down to having 0 or more entities with key value pairs associated
with them, such that both the keys are machine understandable and the
values are allowed to be links.




>
> Cheers,
> Andreas
>
> Andreas Kuckartz:
> > Melvin Carvalho:
> >> I think Tim, both with his hacker and W3C hats on, is keen on reusing
> web
> >> standards (particularly linked data) for the social web.
> >
> > I think that the connection between the Federated Social Web and Linked
> > Data is becoming more and more obvious. For that reason one of the
> > target groups of the best practices document should be the Linked Open
> > Data communities.
> >
> > BTW: Manu Sporny suggested that we use a term like Open Social Web
> > instead of the more technical term Federated Social Web and I agree with
> > that suggestion. (But I would not bother trying to rename the Community
> > Group.)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Andreas
>