[foaf-dev] [foaf-protocols] fp:ping

[Danny Ayers]

pings are great, and recording pings is a great idea (you don't think
google don't do this already?). Bit over engineered - all you need is
maybe A -> B (hopefully URIs) and a timestamp.



On 14 April 2010 11:00, Story Henry <henry.story at bblfish.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to propose a ping relation. It is extremely common for people
> to ask how does one make friends in foaf. For a long time, I thought looking
> at the referrer in the logs would be enough. But that is perhaps just a bit
> too minimalistic. Here we can do better.
>
>
> This is a sketch of what the relation should look like. It should be really
> simple, something that would allow a simple html form to do the job for
> human readers too.
>
> The access to the resource can be protected using foaf+ssl, so that one can reduce spam
> opportunities, or at least filter them.
>
> It would be defined like this
>
> @prefix fp: <http://foaf-protocols.com/ont/> . # made up name-space
> @prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
> @prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .
> @prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
>
>
> fp:ping a rdf:Property;
>    rdfs:domain foaf:Agent;
>    rdfs:range xxx:POSTResource;
>    rdfs:comment """
>       This relation gives a way for other services to ping
>     this webid when a new document is found that mentions this WebID.
>
>       The relation relates a WebId to a collection. A new resource of
>    type PingEvent can be created in that collection by POST ing a
>    URL that mentions the given WebId.
>
>       The POSTing would be the post created by the following html form where
>    ?coll is the name of the object of the relation, and ?rederer is the URL of
>    the referring resource
>
>     <form action="POST" action="?coll">
>         referer: <input type="text" name="referer"/><br/>
>         comment: <input type="text" name="comment"/>
>     </form>
>
>    The resource returned by a GET on the POSTResource can even return the above html
>    form.
>
>    The resource created should be a named ping request, which itself
>   can be described using this ontology.
>
>    This end point could long term accept more flexible contents to be
>   posted. One could post an atom Entry for example.
>    """ .
>
>
> Henry
>
> Social Web Architect
> http://bblfish.net/
>
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