Re: vcard:AddressBook

Hi All,

Regarding the vcard<https://www.w3.org/TR/vcard-rdf/> spec/note, this was published by a W3C Interest Group. W3C interest groups don't exist anymore.


There is a recently started W3C CG aimed at working on maintaining these notes.

https://www.w3.org/community/rdf-maintenance/

This does not guarantee the update of the note, but would be a place to coordinate work on updating them.

Of course, for the vcard spec you might be limited byhttps://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6350and it's updates.
Which means you will need to update two specifications.

Regards,
Jerven


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From: Michiel de Jong <michiel@unhosted.org>
Sent: 14 March 2025 09:14
To: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
Cc: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>; Sarven Capadisli <info@csarven.ca>; semantic-web@w3.org <semantic-web@w3.org>
Subject: Re: vcard:AddressBook

Hi Dan,

I wanted to ask for some more details about what you wrote.

On Thu, 6 Mar 2025 at 16:08, Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org<mailto:danbri@danbri.org>> wrote:
I believe the point of that vcard-rdf note was to reflect into RDF the existing vCard design rather than to improve upon it, ie making up new stuff.

Is this something that is set in stone? It seems that http://www.w3.org/2006/vcard/ns# was originally created in 2010 with https://www.w3.org/submissions/2010/SUBM-vcard-rdf-20100120/, and then in 2014 https://www.w3.org/TR/vcard-rdf/ updated it. It is now 2025, and in practice we are using 6 "squatted" terms, see https://github.com/solid/contacts/issues/11#issuecomment-2715154170.

Who is in charge of deciding the future of http://www.w3.org/2006/vcard/ns#? Is this something we as its users can influence?

If so then I see 4 possible ways forward:

1) keep squatting the terms like we are now (not the proper way to practise semantic web, of course)
2) publish a new note (after the 2010 one and the 2014 one), in which we update http://www.w3.org/2006/vcard/ns#
3) move our terms to FOAF and publish them there
4) redesign our addressbook functionality from scratch and switch for instance to SIOC, see https://github.com/solid/contacts/issues/8#issuecomment-2713487899

I would like to know what the process would be for option 2.


Many thanks,
Michiel de Jong
Solid CG co-chair