RE: Activity Streams Vocabulary

On 22 Sep 2014 at 00:34, James M Snell wrote:
> Our proposal is to:
> 
> A. Define a formal Activity and Actions Ontology based on [2].
> B. Define a requirement that all implementations MUST at least support
> a JSON-LD serialization of this Ontology.
> C. Model the Actions Ontology after the approach currently taken by
> schema.org/Actions but without actually copying or using the
> schema.org vocabulary.
> 
> [1] http://jasnell.github.io/w3c-socialwg-activitystreams/activitystreams2.html#jsonld
> [2] http://jasnell.github.io/w3c-socialwg-activitystreams/activitystreams2-vocabulary.html

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> I'll be working this week to sketch up what the Activity Streams 2.0
> formal ontology would look like. In terms of the specs, it would mean
> a greatly simplified core spec, a bit more added to the vocabulary
> document, and the creation of an accompanying OWL Ontology that
> describes the vocabulary.
> 
> Anyway, that's our proposal. Feel free to throw flowers or eggs. What'cha think?

+1 this would be my preferred way forward as well. As you stated, it has a lot of advantages and allows us to concentrate on the application domain (vocabulary) instead of having to worry about the syntax.


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Markus Lanthaler
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Received on Monday, 22 September 2014 09:49:24 UTC