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

On 13 May 2013 00:09, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 12 May 2013 19:37, Andreas Kuckartz <A.Kuckartz@ping.de> wrote:
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>> I have started with an (almost) blank page:
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>> http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/federatedsocialweb/wiki/Best_Practices_for_the_Open_Social_Web
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> Excellent.
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> Perhaps one area that could be described is best practices for user
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> Roughly speaking
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> Have an identifier denoting a Person, such as an IRC nick -- you're on the
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> Have an identifier that is unique across domains, eg user@host or
> example.com/user/joe
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 5 star
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> 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.
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Typo: RDa should read RDFa

Also I think it's a big plus if the user can own their own profile such
that they can perform CRUD operations.  ie that it is both read and write


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>> Cheers,
>> Andreas
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>> Andreas Kuckartz:
>> > Melvin Carvalho:
>> >> I think Tim, both with his hacker and W3C hats on, is keen on reusing
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>> >> standards (particularly linked data) for the social web.
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>> > 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.
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>> > 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.)
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>> > Cheers,
>> > Andreas
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