- From: Cristiano Longo <cristianolongo@opendatahacklab.org>
- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:02:59 +0100
- Cc: Social Web Incubator Community Group <public-swicg@w3.org>
On 2/23/26 15:26, Aaron Gray wrote: > Christiano, > > Oh thanks for using a closed publication journal that's the last thing > both the W3C and the open source movement need right now. You are perfectly right, but right now I can't afford an open-access publication as it is just too expensive for me. > > I looked into this area myself but the semantics involved to describe > the internal state verses ActivityPub communications was still > indeterminate at the time due to all the incontinuity errors in > ActivityPub and ActivityStreams. The intent of this work is about clarifying specifications, and not intended for run-time uses. > > The work I prompted in closing the GitHub issues for both protocols > mainly performed by Evan goes someway to addressing this, but there > are also proprietorial issues as we do not reflect both the additional > protocol additions and incompatibilities introduced by the main > implementation of the protocols, Mastodon. > > I am not sure how useful formalizing the ontology if ActivityStreams > will actually be in terms of using it with an N3 database or for code > generation. N3 is hugely inefficient, and code generation is not > necessarily going to be optimal. > > You can probably get a class structure out of the ontology but again I > don't know how useful that will actually be without additional bespoke > event logic. > > If I had access to the Sage publication it would be useful but I am > not in an academic organisation. > > Sorry for the rather negative email, but I tend to prefer to say > things as they really are and not beat around the bush. I know I don't > win any friends this way, but reality is what reality is. Thanks for you feedback. > > Regards,
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