[rdfweb-dev] Web Of Trust Vocabulary

[Christopher Schmidt]

Recently, I have been working to create tools which allow for easier
working with RDF documents which are encrypted or signed, for increased
provenance data. I have created some tools to this end, namely the
rdfgpg[1] package, which uses Redland, Python, and GPG to do signature
verification.

One blocker for implementation of Web of Trust type tools in RDF is the
lack of a well documented, complete schema for them. Although there is
the WOT schema[2], it is underdocumented.

There is a significant amount of work on the wiki[3] on cleaning this up,
but no action has been taken up with it. A view of the schema mortenf
created is available via his rdfs tool[4], and I've passed the schema
through specgen.py to create another version[5].

Currently, there is one part of this which is not taken care of, as it
is a seperate issue in the tracker: PgpVocabUndocumentedIssue[6], the
need for an inverse of "wot:identity", to say that someone has a key.
I've used hasKey for this in julie's FOAF document.

I would like to move forward work on this issue, and I see no reason not
to. I will create documentation for each of the terms, and generate a
full spec HTML file for it based on mortenf's work up to this point.

If anyone has any feelings that I should do otherwise, please speak now.

[1] http://crschmidt.net/semweb/rdfgpg/
[2] http://xmlns.com/wot/0.1/
[3] http://rdfweb.org/topic/TrustVocabIssue
[4]
http://xml.mfd-consult.dk/ws/2003/01/rdfs/?rdfs=http://www.wasab.dk/morten/2004/02/wot.rdf
[5] http://crschmidt.net/~crschmidt/wot.html
[6] http://rdfweb.org/topic/PgpVocabUndocumentedIssue

-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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