- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:45:40 -0600
- To: Peter Mika <pmika@yahoo-inc.com>
- Cc: www-rdf-calendar@w3.org
On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 19:08 +0100, Peter Mika wrote: > Dear All, > > We just have had a very successful VoCamp [1] behind our back, where we > started to discuss among others the issue of representing popular > microformats in RDF. This is a pressing question because large scale > semantic platforms such as Sindice or Yahoo's SearchMonkey would like to > treat microformats at the RDF level and at the scale at which some of > our systems work there is no possibility for reasoning. Therefore an > agreement on the mapping is required. It doesn't matter as much what > this agreement is, as long as it is an agreement ;) > > You can see the outcomes of our current effort at [2]. One of the > problems we spotted was related to VCal. Apparently, there is still > significant confusion as to what the proper namespace for VCal is and > unfortunately the spec at [3] leaves the question in limbo, using either > one or the other namespace at various points. > > So my question is: could we deprecate > > |http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal# > > |in favor of > > http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/icaltzd# > > > and reflecting this change in the documentation at [3] and at [4]? Sounds reasonable. Do you have details in mind? Could you suggest patches? I haven't looked at this stuff for a while; I should review the reasons why this wasn't done earlier. I think the last time I collected my thoughts on all this was: From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org> Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 01:25:37 -0500 reconsidering timezones in light of hCalendar and CALSIFY http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-calendar/2006Apr/0002.html I wonder what, if anything, Masahide Kanzaki is currently supporting in this area. I recall earlier discussion with him about this namespace... http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-calendar/2004Oct/0004.html Antoni Mylka wrote up some problems, though I haven't reviewed them closely. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-calendar/2007May/0005.html > Thanks, > Peter > > > [1] http://vocamp.org [2] http://semanticweb.org/wiki/Microformats_in_RDF > > [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfcal/ > > [4] http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/ -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ gpg D3C2 887B 0F92 6005 C541 0875 0F91 96DE 6E52 C29E
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