Would it be possible to add a "payment" predicate to the vocabulary?

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Activity Streams 2.0

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Would it be possible to add a "payment" predicate to the vocabulary? #503

Closed melvincarvalho closed 5 years ago

melvincarvalho commented 5 years ago

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For example : Alice created a presentation, and received a Payment for it.

The requirement would be domain : Activity and range : I guess anyURI or Object.

I realize the vocab is relatively static, so I can implement this downstream. I just thought it might be nice to mention here in case there was interest upstream.

Good idea / bad idea / thoughts?

cjslep commented 5 years ago

ActivityStreams is flexible and can use any of the existing RDF vocabulary from, for example, schema.org.

I also know the ValueFlows folks are interested in representing economic transformations in an RDF ontology.

The quickest way would be to pick something sensible, stick something appropriate in @context, document it somewhere, and run with it. But you may want to talk to other implementors before doing so?

melvincarvalho commented 5 years ago

@cjslep thanks for the response!

I have chatted with a few developers on this topic and they say more or less the same thing as you did.

I have actually completed a prototype implementation now, and am just working out with term to use.

I think in the interests of speed I will use my own payment term in the @context. This issue was just to see if there were others interested in the payment + activity use case, who wanted to weigh in.

I'm happy if this issue is closed. Perhaps I'll leave it open for a short period just in case.

melvincarvalho commented 5 years ago

Closing this. Thanks for the feedback.

Feel free to reopen if there is renewed interest in payments upstream, at some point.

FYI : I have added a payment type for activities in line with the Activity Streams extension features. It uses a different payments vocabulary. All is working really well so far.