Re: Extended Vocabulary Status

On 12/04/2014 08:32 PM, rektide@voodoowarez.com wrote:
> 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

It's not in the WG list of deliverables. That does not prevent the IG
from publishing it as an "IG Note." However, James, could you provide a
summary of the overlap with the scope of schema.org, since Google is
also considering having that work as either a 'snapshot' or Member
Submission?

> 
> 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 19:46:23 UTC