[doap-interest] doap:user?

[Benjamin Nowack]

On 20.12.2006 00:22:22, Uldis Bojars wrote:
>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.
See [1], the direction generally doesn't matter. With a DOAP-related
prop however, it may actually matter, but should be from the project
to the user: DOAP does a neat trick and integrates both projects
and the software created by the project in a single vocabulary. This
means that properties like license, tester, etc, have a a bit more
complex semantics by not really describing "license of the project",
"tester of the project", but "license of the software created by the
project" and "tester of the software created by the project" 
respectively. For consistency reasons, a doap:user prop could use
the same pattern and should IMO be part of DOAP.

[1] http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/72

Cheers,
Benjamin

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>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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