Re: DOAP and software description

Dear Edd,

Any news on this front?

Thanks,
   Shadi


On 12.4.2011 11:46, Shadi Abou-Zahra wrote:
> Dear Edd,
>
> I'm following up on a very old discussion relating to representing
> "software" as individual instances of a "project". We would need an
> actual software class, for instance to represent such listings:
> - <http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tools/complete>
>
> A property such as "release" could be useful if its range is a class
> representing software, which could be a subclass of "project".
>
> Do you have any updated thoughts on this?
>
> Best,
> Shadi
>
>
> On 17.3.2006 22:34, Edd Dumbill wrote:
>> Sorry for the delay in responding. You are right that the current
>> vocabulary for describing releases is a little primitive. It basically
>> comes down to having multiple doap:release properties, e.g.
>>
>> <release>
>> <Version>
>> <name>unstable</name>
>> <created>2003-06-07</created>
>> <revision>0.4.1</revision>
>> </Version>
>> </release>
>>
>> That covers release dates, versions, names, you could hang extra
>> properties off that. CodeZoo added file-release to point to a
>> tarball/zip, and I included that.
>>
>> I am open to considering new properties for inclusion based on a
>> demonstration of the need for them. I have been considering a vocab to
>> represent dependencies for some time, for instance.
>>
>> You may also be interested in what Apache have done with DOAP,
>> http://times.usefulinc.com/2006/03/17-doap-apache
>>
>> -- Edd
>>
>> On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 16:00 +0100, Karl Dubost wrote:
>>> Hi Edd,
>>>
>>> DOAP is very useful in terms of the description of a project.
>>> DOAP doesn't seem to cover the description of an individual software
>>> like name, version, release dates, bug list, etc.
>>>
>>> I'm asking this because I was in ERT/QA joint meeting [2] yesterday.
>>> The ERT WG in the design of EARL needs an "earl:software" [1] for
>>> describing a specific software. But using the earl namespace for
>>> this seems to be a bit awkward.
>>>
>>> Have you already worked a bit on this?
>>> Or do you have an example which would cover this case?
>>> Or do you have pointers which might interest the ERT WG?
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/EARL10/#terms-classes-software
>>> [2] http://www.w3.org/2006/02/28-er-minutes#item01
>

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   WAI International Program Office Activity Lead   |
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