Re: The OWL file

Well, shucks. I've got bad news. It /is/ actually part of the spec in a 
way, shape, and/or form.

Appendix A of the Activity Vocabulary refers to it as a non-normative 
definition:

https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#non-normative-ontology-definition

I can't believe I forgot this section was there.

I think as long as we have this section we have some responsibility to 
keep the file up to date.

Evan

On 2023-12-08 12:12 p.m., nightpool wrote:
> 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
>     >
>     >
>