Re: Currency Mints (Re: The UN Millenium declaration)

On 14 December 2011 06:11, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> wrote:
> On 12/06/2011 03:55 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
>>
>> So can I use the following JSON to represent the data structure?
>>
>> {
>>    "a": "com:Transfer",
>>    "com:forTransaction":
>> "<http://redbankexample.com/transactions/20110104#7827982>";
>>    "com:source": "<http://redbankexample.com/accounts/12345#account>",
>>    "com:destination":
>> "<http://greencardexample.com/accounts/54321#account>",
>>    "com:amount": "8.00",
>>    "com:currency": "USD",
>>    "rdfs:comment": "Transfer of $8.00 on 2010-10-16 at 12:34pm -
>> Paying Jane back for pizza last Monday"
>> }
>
>
> Close, we've made a couple of changes to the JSON-LD syntax and the
> Commerce vocabulary since then. Unfortunately, I think you were looking
> at a very old copy of the Commerce vocabulary when putting together your
> example. Sorry about that, we've updated the static file to reflect the
> latest changes. This is probably what you could do, instead:
>
> {
>   "@context": "http://example.com/contexts/IOU",
>   "@type": "com:Transfer",
>   "com:forTransaction":
> "http://redbankexample.com/transaction/20110104#7827982";
>
>   "com:source": "http://redbankexample.com/accounts/12345#account",
>   "com:destination": "http://greencardexample.com/accounts/54321#account",
>   "com:amount": "8.00",
>   "com:currency": "USD",
>   "rdfs:comment": "Transfer of $8.00 on 2010-10-16 at 12:34pm - Paying Jane
> back for pizza last Monday"
> }
>
> You could simplify further and get rid of all of the "com" and "rdfs"
> prefixes by optimizing the JSON-LD context, by only using terms and
> perhaps re-naming "@type" to "type":
>
> {
>   "@context": "http://example.com/contexts/IOU",
>   "type": "com:Transfer",
>   "forTransaction":
> "http://redbankexample.com/transactions/20110104#7827982";
>   "source": "http://redbankexample.com/accounts/12345#account",
>   "destination": "http://greencardexample.com/accounts/54321#account",
>   "amount": "8.00",
>   "currency": "USD",
>
>   "comment": "Transfer of $8.00 on 2010-10-16 at 12:34pm - Paying Jane back
> for pizza last Monday"
> }

Thanks Manu, this version looks great.  Assume I can replace
com:Transfer with just Transfer?

>
> You could even rename all of the keys up there in the JSON-LD context to
> anything that you'd like, but still utilize the underlying commerce
> vocabulary. If there is a term that you need that isn't in the commerce
> vocabulary, but should exist in there, let us know and we can add it (if
> it makes sense to do so). Does that work for you?
>
>
> -- manu
>
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> Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
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>

Received on Wednesday, 14 December 2011 14:27:15 UTC