Re: Concerning iCal in RDF

Michael, thanks for this. As may be clear, I'm interested in how we can use RDF, Linked Data etc but not any kind of expert. I'm just looking for guidance on what sorts of vocabularies we should use in our new (Drupal-based) web site. It has been very confusing to me that there is no such clear guidance; there seems to be a sort of inspired adhoc approach, which works perhaps if you know what you're doing, but not otherwise.

In this case, I'm looking for an ontology to encode events, ie workshops, conferences, training sessions, meetings. At the coarsest level, iCalendar is enough.

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On 16 Feb 2010, at 11:23, Michael Hausenblas wrote:

> 
> Chris,
> 
> Concerning your question regarding iCal in RDF [1][2]: based on the VoCamp
> we had in end of 2008 in Galway there were some follow-up discussions [3] as
> you rightly noticed. That said, I'm not aware of any concrete actions out of
> this.
> 
> DanC, the original editor proposed to back it up by an Incubator group [4],
> and only recently we have seen what is possible with a small dedicated group
> that has a concrete goal (cf. vCard W3C Member Submission "Representing
> vCard Objects in RDF" [5]).
> 
> I've CCed some IMO relevant people here, hoping to gather some answers. In
> case it is desired, I volunteer to drive an update (essentially in the same
> style as with vCards submission).
> 
> Richard, Renato, Harry, DanC, DanBri - what is your opinion on this?
> 
> Cheers,
>      Michael
> 
> [1] http://twitter.com/cardcc/status/9149850904
> [2] http://twitter.com/cardcc/status/9148914765
> [3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-calendar/2008Dec/0000.html
> [4] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-calendar/2008Dec/0013.html
> [5] http://www.w3.org/Submission/2010/SUBM-vcard-rdf-20100120/
> 
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