Re: Adding an app to a profile

On 11/28/12 2:28 PM, Nathan wrote:
> ☮ elf Pavlik ☮ wrote:
>> Excerpts from Kingsley Idehen's message of 2012-11-28 18:13:19 +0000:
>>> On 11/28/12 12:36 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 28 November 2012 18:32, Nathan <nathan@webr3.org 
>>>> <mailto:nathan@webr3.org>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     Melvin Carvalho wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         Part of the RWW is a clean separation between apps, data and
>>>>         identiry.
>>>>
>>>>         I was wondering if there's a convenient single predicate to
>>>>         add a webapp to
>>>>         a profile page.
>>>>
>>>>         Currently I use foaf : interest which isnt really accurate.
>>>>
>>>>         We were thinking about creating
>>>>
>>>>         plink : webapp
>>>>
>>>>         As per http://ontologi.es/
>>>>
>>>>         Any thoughts on this?
>>>>
>>>>         I think it would be awesome when we can finally start adding
>>>>         apps to our
>>>>         pages.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     Somehow I don't follow lol, why would we link from our foaf to an
>>>>     app? and in what capacity?
>>>>
>>>>     - saying "I created/contribute to this app"
>>>>     - saying "this is my account on website/app x" (eg this is my 
>>>> twitter)
>>>>     - something else?
>>>>
>>>>     (generally I'd thought we'd link to our data, and then different
>>>>     apps of a users preference would consume/display that data)
>>>>
>>>>     Apologies for the confusing, I think I'm just missing a little
>>>>     context somwhere :D
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It's similar to when you add an app to facebook or google plus.  
>>>> Then you get a link in your sidebar of your profile to say, your 
>>>> calendar, tasks, etc.
>>>>
>>>> Also then other people can see what apps you use
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     Nath
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Yes, so you have "use" as the verb in the sentence: I use X . Thus, 
>>> you can just start with a Turtle file that states:
>>>
>>> # start
>>>
>>> <#i> <#use> <SomeApp>.
>>>
>>> #if you find a preferred predicate from a shared vocabulary or 
>>> ontology, you can just add:
>>> <#use> rdfs:subPropertyOf <NewlyDiscoveredPredictateURI> .
>>>
>>> # OR
>>>
>>> <#use> owl:equivalentProperty <NewlyDiscoveredPredictateURI> .
>>>
>>> # end
>>>
>>> It just depends on what you are trying to say, don't be distracted 
>>> by the search for a perfect predicate from a shared vocabulary etc..
>> thanks for this tip!
>>
>> how does it work later on when i start writing queries?
>
> Inference is quite simple.
>
> If you have <a> <b> <c> . and <b> sameAs <d> . then most decent 
> engines/stores will add the inferred triple <a> <d> <c> to the 
> dataset, so your query works whether you've used <b> or <d> :)
>
>
>
>

That too, and if using Virtuoso you can use a pragma to make inference 
context invocation conditional, as you know anyway :-)


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