Re: The OWL file

What are you actually trying to describe ? Sorry I have lost the thread as
everyone is top posting.

On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 at 19:06, Cristiano Longo <
cristianolongo@opendatahacklab.org> wrote:

> It depends on how much one intend to go in deep. For example, I already
> produced some constraints that describe membership and paging of
> collection, but I have been unable to envisage a model theoretic semantics
> for the activity ADD and REMOVE as it would require to represent the time
> ordering of activity of this type.
> On 20/03/25 19:51, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
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> čt 20. 3. 2025 v 19:39 odesílatel Cristiano Longo <
> cristianolongo@opendatahacklab.org> napsal:
>
>> Thank you very much, I fond this that is really specific
>>
>> https://nlnet.nl/opensocial/
>>
>> However just 50K euro will be funded, so that just one or two person
>> would be involved.
>>
>> Now I have to understand if, in the case I got this grant, how I should
>> interact with the official Activity Pub charter.
>>
>> However, on monday I'll have a meeting at my university to discuss about
>> this grant and other opportunities.
>>
>
> Unsure making an OWL file would be alot of effort.  I would imagine a
> perfect professional document costing in the range of 5k, and could be done
> in a few weeks.
>
>
>> CL
>> On 18/03/25 09:53, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
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>> út 18. 3. 2025 v 9:27 odesílatel Cristiano Longo <
>> cristianolongo@opendatahacklab.org> napsal:
>>
>>> I'm going to look for any funding for this. Any suggestion about an
>>> appropriate funding source and scheme will be appreciated. Also, proposals
>>> for collaborations with other institutions are welcome.
>>>
>>
>> I would recommend NLNet, they are very generous with funding:
>>
>> https://nlnet.nl/propose/
>>
>>
>>> CL
>>> On 04/10/24 10:11, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
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>>> 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.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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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