Open ppwfx opened 5 years ago
... leads to 404. I suspect you meant https://schema.org/Person. :+1:
@ppwfx schema.org/Person isn't a W3C Technical Recommendation
Nearly all the ActivityStreams types have an equivalent in schema.org –
and since ActivityPub is JSON LD you could simply extend it on your own.
Many different implementations do so.
For example Mobilizon is extending the Place
type with the https://schema.org/address
See https://docs.joinmobilizon.org/contribute/activity_pub/#location
This was a big subject of conversation in the Social Web Working Group. I don't think I can summarize the entire conversation here.
I think the rough idea was: we couldn't have a dependency on a non-normative specification like schema.org, and at the time none of the entities working on schema.org would/could participate in the SWWG to resolve the issues.
There are some links in the related W3C issue tracker:
https://www.w3.org/Social/track/issues/15
There's a pretty good conversation here, too:
https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg/2015-03-03-minutes
It's worth noting that the "person" type existed in Activity Streams 1.0, so it wasn't invented for AS2.
I'll add a page on the wiki at https://www.w3.org/wiki/Activity_Streams/Primer/Schema.org describing the history, since it seems to be one of the biggest things people ask. I'll add some information on using types from other vocabularies, like schema.org, also.
It's also worth noting that Activity Streams 1.0 was released in May 2011, and schema.org's first pre-release version was in June of the same year. So it might be worth asking why s.o didn't use the AS vocabulary! 😉
One thing I'd like to ask or otherwise bring up: why not use VCard types? It's especially relevant because AS2-Core recommends that you SHOULD use VCard properties for Person, Group, and Organization... so it seems like those map perfectly onto VCard's Individual, Group, and Organization types. I can't think of a relevant semantic difference between these, and VCard 4 seems to have been around since 2006.
Please Indicate One:
Hey,
I just got a little question about your thought process. Why did you choose to have your own Person type (defined here https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams.jsonld) rather than extending an existing one (e.g. https://schema.org/Person.jsonld)?
This isn't meant to be a critic, I'm just curious.
cheers