[doap-interest] Bug: doap:os

[Edd Dumbill]

On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 14:34 -0400, Norman Walsh wrote:
> / Damian Steer <pldms at mac.com> was heard to say:
> | "Operating system that a project is limited to. Omit this property if
> | the project is not OS-specific"
> |
> | Omitting a property to mean negation (i.e. not OS specific) is a mistake
> | given the open world of RDF [*]. I'd suggest changing the rdfs:comment
> 
> Good catch.

Yep, I think that I will advise the string "any" for meaning cross
platform.

> And I wonder if we shouldn't have a list of URIs for languages and
> platforms, just like we now have a list for licenses.

I'm not sure about that, primarily as I don't want to maintain it.

My thinking so far is that doap:category could be used with a list of
URIs that somebody else manages.

the os and programming-language terms are dubious in this way I suspect,
and would better replaced with specialisations of doap:category.
Unfortunately it also makes it a lot harder to create the doap in the
first place then.

-- Edd