Re: The OWL file

I agree with all of the points mentioned here, as I've said many times on
GitHub, the OWL should be maintained/improved by the community of users
that are utilizing it, it shouldn't be blocked on Editor or CG approval to
get changes made. (But also, conversely, it shouldn't continue to have the
"imprimatur" of an official document just because it happens to have been
included in the repo, since it's not part of the spec in any way shape or
form)

On Fri, Dec 8, 2023, 10:42 AM Evan Prodromou <evan@prodromou.name> wrote:

> I should have explained: OWL is the Web Ontology Language.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Ontology_Language
>
> Evan
>
> On 2023-12-08 11:38 a.m., Evan Prodromou wrote:
> > The original development file for AS2 was an OWL file.
> >
> > I don't think it was ever edited after James Snell created the first
> > JSON-LD context file.
> >
> > But it's been in the Activity Streams 2.0 repository on GitHub since
> > it was created.
> >
> > We get occasional requests to make changes to it to bring it into line
> > with the JSON-LD context doc. Some LinkedData developers seem to
> > prefer using it.
> >
> > We had a new issue filed this week about it, and on the issue triage
> > call we came up with a novel solution: move the file to its own
> > repository in the SWICG namespace, and let people who are interested
> > in using and maintaining it work on the project.
> >
> > The new repository is here:
> >
> > https://github.com/swicg/activitystreams2-owl
> >
> > Big appreciation to Emelia Smith for getting the process rolling.
> > We've already had one PR applied.
> >
> > I had removed the file from the w3c/activitystreams repo, but Ben
> > Goering pointed out that it probably needed more consensus and a
> > discussion here.
> >
> > So, let's discuss!
> >
> > I'd love to see this unofficial file maintained and updated. I think
> > moving it to a repo where people in the LD community can maintain it
> > is a great solution.
> >
> > Evan
> >
> >
>
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