Social WG Deliverable "Social Data Syntax" / vocabulary

The [DRAFT] Social Web Working Group Charter mentions this deliverable:

"Social Data Syntax
A JSON-based syntax to allow the transfer of social information, such as
status updates, across differing social systems. One input to this
deliverable is ActivityStreams 2.0."
http://www.w3.org/2013/socialweb/social-wg-charter.html

I am a bit confused about the use of the term syntax here. I think that
a rather simple restriction of JSON to the JSON-LD subset which can be
treated as an RDF-serialization should be made in the deliverable. But I
do not see the need for a lengthy "syntax"-document for that purpose. A
few paragraphs probably would be enough.

The real intended core of the deliverable seems to be a *vocabulary* to
formulate social information. And that is at least as much about
semantics than syntax.

According to the draft charter the FPWD is currently planned for Q3
2014. That does not seem to be a realistic date for such a deliverable.

Cheers,
Andreas

Received on Monday, 26 May 2014 09:47:56 UTC