[doap-interest] doap:user?

Uldis Bojars captsolo at gmail.com
Wed Dec 20 00:22:22 UTC 2006


On 12/19/06, Benjamin Nowack <bnowack at appmosphere.com> wrote:

> any chance I could talk you into adding a "user" property
> to DOAP? I'm building an RDFy social networking system
> where members will be able to list the tools they are using
> (for community building bla). As the software descriptions
> are DOAP-based, it would be great to have such a property
> in the core vocab as well, e.g.
>
> [[
> <rdf:Property rdf:about="http://usefulinc.com/ns/doap#user">
>   <rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://usefulinc.com/ns/doap#" />
>   <rdfs:label xml:lang="en">user</rdfs:label>
>   <rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">User of the software of the
> project.</rdfs:comment>
>   <rdfs:domain rdf:resource="http://usefulinc.com/ns/doap#Project" />
>   <rdfs:range rdf:resource="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person" />
> </rdf:Property>
> ]]

We discussed a similar idea on #sioc IRC channel. I would suggest to
start with the other direction for this relation first - software
which a foaf:Person is using.

A DOAP profile can't possibly list all users of a software tool or
keep it up-to-date but if information on software used by people is
attached to their FOAF profiles you can always aggregate them and
discover who is using what.

That'd be good use case - to see what tools your friends are using.

As an experiment in this direction Christoph Gorn added a new property
to his FOAF-X vocabulary which would allow to describe this relation
(what software is somebody using). He also added an example
description to his FOAF profile (one this I remember is that he's
using VIM :), but I don't see it now.

Christoph, could you tell a bit more about it?

Best,
Uldis

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