Re: a common understanding of profiles

On 26 June 2015 at 14:25, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote:

>  On 6/26/15 7:37 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
>
> So when you GET https://evanprodromou.example/profile the response would
> be something like:
>
> {
>   "@context": "http://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams" <http://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams>,
>   "@type": "Person",
>   "@id": "https://evanprodromou.example/",
>   "displayName": "Evan Prodromou",
>   "alias": "eprodrom",
>   "summary": "Founder of Fuzzy.io. Past founder of Wikitravel and StatusNet. Founding CTO of Breather.",  "icon": {
>     "@type": "Image",
>     "url": "https://evanprodromou.example/avatar.png",
>     "width": 128,
>     "height": 128
>   },
>   "url": {
>       "@type": "Link",
>       "href": "https://evanprodromou.example/" <https://evanprodromou.example/>,
>       "mediaType": "text/html"
>   },  "location": {
>        "@type": "Place",
>        "displayName": "Montreal, Quebec, Canada"
>   }
> }
>
>
> All,
>
> What about the following? Basically, using "/" as the indexical [1].
>
> {
>   "@context": "http://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams" <http://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams>,
>   "@type": "Person",
>   "@id": " <https://evanprodromou.example/>https://evanprodromou.example/profile/ <https://evanprodromou.example/>",
>   "displayName": "Evan Prodromou",
>   "alias": "eprodrom",
>   "summary": "Founder of Fuzzy.io. Past founder of Wikitravel and StatusNet. Founding CTO of Breather.",  "icon": {
>     "@type": "Image",
>     "url": "https://evanprodromou.example/avatar.png",
>     "width": 128,
>     "height": 128
>   },
>   "url": {
>       "@type": "Link",
>       "href": "https://evanprodromou.example/profile.html" <https://evanprodromou.example/>,
>       "mediaType": "text/html"
>   },  "location": {
>        "@type": "Place",
>        "displayName": "Montreal, Quebec, Canada"
>   }
> }
>
>
> OR
>
> Where "#i" is the indexical?
>
> {
>   "@context": "http://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams" <http://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams>,
>   "@type": "Person",
>   "@id": " <https://evanprodromou.example/>https://evanprodromou.example/profile#i <https://evanprodromou.example/>",
>   "displayName": "Evan Prodromou",
>   "alias": "eprodrom",
>   "summary": "Founder of Fuzzy.io. Past founder of Wikitravel and StatusNet. Founding CTO of Breather.",  "icon": {
>     "@type": "Image",
>     "url": "https://evanprodromou.example/avatar.png",
>     "width": 128,
>     "height": 128
>   },
>   "url": {
>       "@type": "Link",
>       "href": "https://evanprodromou.example/profile.html" <https://evanprodromou.example/>,
>       "mediaType": "text/html"
>   },  "location": {
>        "@type": "Place",
>        "displayName": "Montreal, Quebec, Canada"
>   }
> }
>
>
> OR
>
> Where "#me" is the indexical, a pattern already used in IndieWeb realm?
>
> {
>   "@context": "http://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams" <http://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams>,
>   "@type": "Person",
>   "@id": " <https://evanprodromou.example/>https://evanprodromou.example/profile.html#me <https://evanprodromou.example/>",
>   "displayName": "Evan Prodromou",
>   "alias": "eprodrom",
>   "summary": "Founder of Fuzzy.io. Past founder of Wikitravel and StatusNet. Founding CTO of Breather.",  "icon": {
>     "@type": "Image",
>     "url": "https://evanprodromou.example/avatar.png",
>     "width": 128,
>     "height": 128
>   },
>   "url": {
>       "@type": "Link",
>       "href": "https://evanprodromou.example/profile.html" <https://evanprodromou.example/>,
>       "mediaType": "text/html"
>   },  "location": {
>        "@type": "Place",
>        "displayName": "Montreal, Quebec, Canada"
>   }
> }
>
> OK, so it appears that pretty much no one in the indie web community
really cares about indexicals, at this point.  They will only become
valuable in future, perhaps after this WG has finished.

What is valuable today is for *other* communities that wish to bootstrap
indieweb tooling may care about indexicals.

It the absence of any consensus (or even opinion) I propose using #this as
the commonly accepted indexical for a primary topic.  I think that's what
most of us are doing anyway.


>
>
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indexicality
>
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>
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