Re: The OWL file

pá 4. 10. 2024 v 10:03 odesílatel Cristiano Longo <
cristianolongo@opendatahacklab.org> napsal:

> The OWL file have to be mantained and enriched, as reported in
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swicg/2023Dec/0014.html
>
> I don't know if it is appropriate that the community group work on this.
> And, if so, I'm not sure if this should be mentioned in the document
> under discussion or it could emerge later as a work item.
>
> I'm sorry but I cannot attend the today meeting.
>


It’s the machine-readable vocabulary for ActivityPub. Could we perhaps just
call it the *Schema*, *Vocab*, or *Ontology* for ActivityPub, instead of
"OWL"? OWL stands for Ontology Web Language, and that’s a bit less
intuitive for most folks.

In the linked data world, a schema is essential, and it should be
referenced in the context. The context itself isn’t meant for
definitions—it’s more of an intermediary between the specific JSON format
(or "profile") and the schema.

There was quite a bit of work done on the schema during the Working Group,
but at some point, the link to it seems to have been broken—intentionally
or not. I think it would be a valuable task to restore that connection and
make the ActivityPub schema fully compliant with W3C standards again.

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> CL
>
> On 08/12/23 17:38, 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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