Re: dfn-ojbect

On 8 November 2015 at 16:22, James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> wrote:

> "object" in an activity is the direct object. For instance, in the
> sentence, "John created the note", the "object" is the note.
>
Very helpful, thanks!


> On Nov 8, 2015 6:37 AM, "Melvin Carvalho" <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 8 November 2015 at 02:26, James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Nope. Just an editing error. They're two different things
>>>
>> I've been looking at the friend request example and seeing how we would
>> do that in Solid:
>>
>> EXAMPLE 328
>> {
>>   "@context": [
>>     "http://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
>>     {"colleagueOf": "http://purl.org/vocab/relationship/colleagueOf"}
>>   ],
>>   "@id": "http://example.org/connection-requests/123",
>>   "@type": "Offer",
>>   "actor": "acct:sally@example.org",
>>   "object": {
>>     "@id": "http://example.org/connections/123",
>>     "@type": "Relationship",
>>     "subject": "acct:sally@example.org",
>>     "relationship": "colleagueOf",
>>     "object": "acct:john@example.org"
>>   },
>>   "target": "acct:john@example.org"
>> }
>>
>>
>> I found the naming of Object/object/target slightly confusing in this
>> example.
>>
>> Object has a number of meanings:
>>
>> 1. The Object is the parent class of the activity
>> 2. The object is the "object" of an activity ie what is being done
>> 3. The object is the "object" of the relationship, ie the "target"
>> 4. Object is also an rdf : object as per subject/predicate/object as
>> mentioned in reification
>>
>> I suppose at this point in time it's much too late to change.
>>
>> But just to try and understand the sense.
>>
>> Would the "object" in an activity roughly correspond to the term
>> "activity" ie what is the activity of this message?
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Nov 7, 2015 5:04 PM, "Melvin Carvalho" <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Reading through the AS spec I come across two terms:
>>>>
>>>> Object
>>>> object
>>>>
>>>> One with capital and one with small.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-object
>>>>
>>>> If I've understood correctly they are slightly different things, but
>>>> yet they point to the same URI in the spec.  Is this intentional?
>>>>
>>>
>>