[rdfweb-dev] Wanted: Sample code for vcard to FOAF conversion

[Julian Bond]

Dan Brickley <danbri at w3.org> Mon, 8 Aug 2005 10:02:23
>Julian Bond wrote:

>> I'm hearing of more and more people who are using Skype and have 
>>dropped their other IM programs. Is it time for a foaf:skypeChatID ??
>
>I'd support that. Anything with that scale of usage is worth the price 
>of a new property,
>I think. There's the question of whether they've a (proper) URI scheme, 
>or plain string
>property is best. I lean towards using just the string...

At the moment they use callto:julian.bond or callto://julian.bond There 
are rumours afoot that they will be adding other potential URLs eg
skype:+18005550000
skype:+18005550000/call
skype:echo123/call
skype:echo123/chat
skype:echo123
skype:echo123/voicemail
skype:user1;user2/chat (creates multichat)
skype:user1;user2/call (create conference call)
skype:echo123/add (add to contactlist; show authorization)
skype:echo123/sendfile (open sendfile dialog to skypename)

http://www.skypejournal.com/blog/archives/2005/08/skype_links_com.php

So yes, a simple string is probably best in the RDF and the UI can 
convert that into whatever's needed.

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