- From: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 00:31:03 +0200
- To: Andreas Kuckartz <A.Kuckartz@ping.de>
- Cc: "Darrell Prince`" <prince.darrell@gmail.com>, "Michiel B. de Jong" <anything@michielbdejong.com>, "public-fedsocweb@w3.org" <public-fedsocweb@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CAKaEYhLj62B1kQB9ApbzqhKRVNOvSoRKfEzE+0iAUap65S09zw@mail.gmail.com>
On 13 May 2013 00:11, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On 13 May 2013 00:09, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> >> 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. >> > > 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 > I've drafted this as a proposal on the wiki page. I've asked Tim Berners-Lee (W3C) and Pete Resnick (IETF) if they have a moment to review. > > >> >> >> >> >>> >>> 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 >>> >> >> >
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