[rdfweb-dev] markup for describing chat channels (IRC, Jabber, ...)

[Peter Saint-Andre]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 07:05:23PM -0500, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:

> The specifics of your example look good, and I'll try to think of more
> data we might want to include as well.

A few more info bits to possibly include:

1. location of logs

2. list of registered users (in Jabber we have the concept of a user who 
   is registered with the room, who of course could be associated with a 
   FOAF description)

3. list of current occupants, though this would be a snapshot

4. meta-information about the room/channel (e.g., members-only,
   password-protected, encrypted)

The element name "ChatGroup" seems odd to me, since I've never heard
that term before. ChatRoom is the usual term (or channel in IRC). We
often refer to a multi-user chat protocol as "groupchat" so that might
work, too. But that's mere nomenclature anyway.

Also I might break the topic description from out of the homepage
element, since not every room has a homepage but every room should have
one or more associated topics.

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
Jabber Software Foundation
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