Re: draft data format for Opentabs

On 16 May 2012 16:52, Pelle Braendgaard <pelle@stakeventures.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm trying to read the open tabs spec and it seems really interesting,
> here are a few comments.
>
> For pretty much the same reason that I'm against the JSON LD format's
> colon prefix notation I think Hungarian notation is a really bad idea.
>

I discussed this with michiel on the IRC and we think hungarian is a clever
idea, but probably overkill right now.

BTW JSON-LD was designed such that you dont need any colons at all in the
terms (the magic happens in the @context document, which call be applied
later)


>
> I'd like to strongly recommend against Hungarian notation. It is quite
> unreadable and I can't see any benefits at all from it. If possible it's
> even more confusing that JSON-LD's colon prefix notation.
>

+1


>
> For these standards to take off they need to be very simple, skimmable
> etc. JSON is also commonly translated into methods/attributes in the
> programming language used.
>
> Besides that I'd also still like to recommend the words "from" and "to"
> instead of "source" and "destination". I personally believe that if there
> are simple synonyms available they should be preferred over longer more
> complex terms. This goes for PaySwarm as well of course.
>

We are starting to use "to" and "from" successfully in read write web
social networks using the "pingback" ontology.  It is quite an intuitive
naming system I think.

Webcredits actually has the same fields and pingback + currency + amount.
Maybe that's a natural extension then ...


>
> Finally instead of Ower and Owee I suggest using the the proper English
> words Debtor and Creditor. I know these words can be loaded with other
> meanings, but still they are the correct terms.
>
> P
>
>
>
> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 7:11 PM, Michiel de Jong <michiel@unhosted.org>wrote:
>
>> The webcredits spec was meant to be expanded, and i am now at a point
>> where it is not expressive enough for opentabs. Also I think its
>> variable naming could be improved using Hungarian prefixes like the
>> ones I posted to the rww cg list on Saturday.
>>
>> So here is a draft version of the concepts i am currently thinking of
>> introducing for Opentabs.
>>
>> https://github.com/unhosted/website/wiki/opentabs-data-format
>>
>> It's also an experiment about how Hungarian linked data could look,
>> and it's also still very much subject to bugs and changes. This may
>> change in the future, but i wanted to share it with this cg in case
>> anyone has comments at this point.
>>
>>
>> cheers!
>> Michiel
>>
>>
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