Re: Extended Vocabulary Status

At what doing to d we return to the Social IG and ask for this to get
added to scope, or does this work remain outside of the Recommendation Track
deliverables?

http://www.w3.org/2013/socialweb/social-wg-charter#scope

On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 10:33:57AM -0800, James M Snell wrote:
> I've been continuing work on the proposed extended vocabulary... see here:
> 
> [1] https://www.w3.org/wiki/Activity_Streams/Expanded_Vocabulary
> [2] http://rawgit.com/jasnell/w3c-socialwg-activitystreams/extended-vocabulary/activitystreams2.html
> [3] http://rawgit.com/jasnell/w3c-socialwg-activitystreams/extended-vocabulary/activitystreams2-vocabulary.html
> 
> The main thing you'll notice about this is that it's a *big* expansion
> of the vocabulary. The approach has been straightforward: dig through
> a ton of existing social web applications/platforms and identify the
> common artifacts, features, etc and if any particular item shows up in
> at least three separate implementations, it's added to the extended
> vocabulary. The goal here is to make it trivially possible to
> represent the most common social artifacts/actions without requiring a
> dependency on any one "External" vocabulary.
>
> Overlaps with other vocabularies (particularly schema.org/Actions)
> exist in this. Those overlaps are *intentional*. If folks want to use
> schema.org instead, go for it, there's nothing stopping you. Linked
> data mechanisms can be used to connect those together so that
> everything just works.

Thanks for colliding across namespaces. I really hope something gets better
with Schema.org / w3 's ability to work together soon.

Received on Thursday, 4 December 2014 19:33:12 UTC