Re: Where has the FOAF spec gone ?

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On Fri, Dec 23 2022 at 2:35 PM, Daniel Fiebig <daniel@field33.com> wrote:

> Hey Thomas,
>
> yes, you're right, it’s really bad that popular, often used ontologies
> tend to become unavailable every now and then, for multiple reasons.
>
> More subtle, much harder to detect but equally annoying are smaller or
> bigger edits applied to these ontologies we all rely on in our
> applications, often without any kind of public notification.
>
> Finally to arrive at reliability, persistence and reproducibility along
> the lifecycle of ontologies and ontology-driven applications, we have
> developed the open source infrastructure Plow [1].
>
> Plow is an ontology registry and package manager that provides version
> resolution and dependency management.
>
> In case the raw ontology file might help you, you can find our mirror of
> the most recent version of FOAF we’ve been able to find under
> https://plow.pm/field/@foaf_mirror/foaf/0.99.0
>
> Regarding your question about the specification, I think we should discuss
> if we continue mirroring specification documents or if they shouldn’t
> be assumed to be an inherent part of the actual ontology, i.e., as an
> ontology package that contains the ontology and its
> documentation/specification using comments.
>
> Through this mechanism we can produce auto-generated documentations:
> https://plow.pm/field/@foaf_mirror/foaf/0.99.0/docs
>
> Best regards,
> Daniel
>
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> On Fri, Dec 23 2022 at 03:29, Tom Morris <tfmorris@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 11:34 AM Thomas Francart <
>> thomas.francart@sparna.fr> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/ redirects to an old, 2004 version of the
>>> spec, since at least a couple of months.
>>>
>>> This is bad signal. Can anyone please restore the current version ? I
>>> imagine it has been archived somewhere ?
>>>
>>
>> Of course there's always
>> https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/
>>
>> Tom
>>
>