Re: RDF vCard effort related to RDF iCalendar

Dan Connolly wrote:
> At a glance... I don't see anything about the relationship
> of the work you've done to the RDF calendar test suite.
> Am I missing it? Can you help me find it?
>   

I unfortunately haven't yet looked in depth at the existing iCalendar 
documents for three reasons. First, I couldn't find any comprehensive 
document describing the entire iCalendar ontology in RDF. Secondly, my 
foremost concern was vCard; iCalendar is of interest to me only in the 
future.

Mostly importantly is that I decided, because I was creating a 
specification based upon the interrelation among directory, vCard, and 
iCalendar (and this doesn't seem to have been done before), I might as 
well create it from scratch the way (I think) it should be done, and 
then compare notes---which is what I'm doing now.

Taking this comprehensive approach has been productive. For example, 
although iCalendar calls PERIOD a specialized value type (for which 
normally one would create a typed literal), I've found that it is better 
modeled as an RDF class on its own, allowing the icalendar:duration 
property to re-use the iCalendar duration datatype. Another benefit has 
been the recognition that UTC-OFFSET is inconsistent between vCard and 
iCalendar; I've chosen the vCard syntax, as it more closely follows 
xsd:dateTime.

> Also, are you familiar with the change policy
> for the http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal namespace?
>   

I had seen that section before; why?

By the way, where is this iCalendar schema that I keep seeing mention of?

Garret

Received on Wednesday, 2 May 2007 18:23:38 UTC