Re: New commerce vocab published

On 12 October 2014 04:13, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> wrote:

> Hey Melvin,
>
> I went through and did a huge update to the Commerce vocab tonight wrt.
> ensuring that the RDFa is correct and you can content-negotiate for
> HTML+RDFa 1.1, TURTLE, NTriples, and JSON-LD. Here are a couple of
> examples on how to do conneg:
>
> You can provide an accept header to a generic resource:
>
> curl -L -H "Accept: text/turtle" https://w3id.org/commerce
>
> or you can provide a file extension at the destination resource:
>
> curl https://web-payments.org/vocabs/commerce.nt
> curl https://web-payments.org/vocabs/commerce.jsonld
>
> Hitting the URL in a browser will give you the vocabulary document:
>
> https://w3id.org/commerce
>
> All commerce classes and properties now have labels, descriptions,
> domains, and ranges. There are also examples of typical resources that
> use the property being described. I've tried very hard to veer away from
> the confusing "Domain" and "Range" language of RDF and instead use a
> more conversational English to describe what's happening w/ each
> property. So, for example:
>
> """
> 4.2 amount
>
> The amount property is used to specify the total value of a financial
> resource or action such as an account, transfer, or transaction.
>
> Status: unstable
> Attribute of: Thing
> Typically used by: Deposit, Transaction, Transfer, Withdrawal
> Associated value must be a: Literal
> """
>
> Hope that helps you out.
>

Wow, awesome!


>
> -- manu
>
> --
> Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny)
> Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
> blog: The Marathonic Dawn of Web Payments
> http://manu.sporny.org/2014/dawn-of-web-payments/
>