Re: Typos, etc., in WebID document

On Wed, 31 Mar 2021 at 12:52, Henry Story <henry.story@gmail.com> wrote:

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> > On 31 Mar 2021, at 12:28, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > On Wed, 24 Mar 2021 at 17:46, Henry Story <henry.story@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks David for these detailed improvements!
> > That is just what was needed to incite me to think about evolving the
> document.
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> > Now that W3C has moved to github, I guess we need to find out if there
> is a github repo
> > where all this data is stored, and if we can access it to evolve the
> document.
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> > We've been flagging editorial improvements, bug fixes, and other changes
> since at least 2013, more in 2015, 2019, 2020 etc.
> >
> > The truth is that no one knows how to make any changes, and we dont have
> anyone that can drive them forward
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> Is there a link to a list of these? Do you want to put this together?
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> I was away trying to build stuff, trying to get EU projects together, then
> studying mathematics and category theory ;-)
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> I have received a grant for an EU project this year so I will have time to
> do some cleanup.
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> https://nlnet.nl/project/SolidControl/
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> Hopefully we just have some simple things to do, as there is so much other
> work to
> be done.
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Great to hear, congrats!

I dont have a list

But typically it's helpful to have 2 chairs if one is away doing stuff

Looking forward to seeing webid attribute control!


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> > IMHO we need a new chair for this to happen
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> > Henry
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> > > On 24 Mar 2021, at 15:09, David Booth <david@dbooth.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > This is a nice, concise little write-up of a basic principle.  Thanks
> for doing it!
> > >
> > > I have one substantive comment.  At the beginning of section 4, I like
> the diagram, but I do not understand the "sense" arrow and do not see why
> it is needed at all.  AFAICT, there are *two* things being differentiated:
> the profile document versus TimBL (the person) -- not three.  So to my
> mind, the "sense" arrow only adds confusion.  Also, I do not understand the
> purpose of the stick-figure on the profile document.  There is no stick
> figure in the profile document, so I do not understand why the diagram
> shows one on it.  The diagram also shows a foaf:made link coming from the
> stick figure and pointing to the bottom of the profile card.  I don't
> understand what that is intended to mean, but TimBL's profile card does not
> even contain a foaf:made link, so that seems to be a mistake.
> > >
> > > Aside from that, I noticed several editorial issues that I thought you
> might like to correct:
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> > > 1. The "Latest editor's draft" link goes to
> > > https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/WebID/raw-file/tip/spec/identity-respec.html
> > > which has a "This version" link that is 404:
> > > http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/spec/drafts/ED-webid-20121118
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> > > 2. s/which/that/ in "A WebID is an HTTP URI which refers to an Agent"
> > > See https://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2012/01/that-versus-which.html
> > >
> > > 3. Change "that any Social Network user is familiar with" to "that
> would be familiar to any Social Network user".
> > >
> > > 4. Change "to link together their profiles in a public" to "to link
> their profiles in a public".
> > >
> > > 5. s/resource/resources/ in "by allowing access to resource"
> > >
> > > 6. s/such that/such as that/ in "such that he/she is known"
> > >
> > > 7. Change "A Server is a machine contactable at a domain name or IP
> address that hosts a number of globally accessible Services." to
> > > "A Server is a machine, contactable at a domain name or IP address,
> that hosts globally accessible Services."
> > >
> > > 8. s/given/particular/g in "A Service is an agent listening for
> requests at a given IP address on a given Server"
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> > > 9. s/which/that/ in "A WebID is a URI with an HTTP or HTTPS scheme
> which denotes an Agent"
> > >
> > > 10. s/which/that/ in "A WebID Profile is an RDF document which
> uniquely describes"
> > >
> > > 11. s/Alice/Bob/g in "Therefore, two URIs are needed, one for Alice
> and one for the homepage or a RDF document describing Alice"
> > >
> > > 12. Change "Which one to use depends on the situation, both have
> advantages" to
> > > "Which one to use depends on the situation.  Both have advantages"
> > >
> > > 13. The sentence beginning "The WebID Profile gives the sense of the
> WebID:" seems to be attempting to define the word "sense", because it puts
> that word in italics.  I don't think that is necessary or helpful. I think
> it would be more readily understandable just to write (with no italics):
> "The WebID Profile defines the meaning of the WebID:"
> > >
> > > 14. s/another document/other documents/ in "contain relations to
> another document depicting"
> > >
> > > 15. s/RDFa/RDFa,/ in "even if it is not marked up in RDFa"
> > >
> > > 16. s/as well/as well as/ in "may contain public as well personal"
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > David
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