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

[Story Henry]

On 16 Apr 2010, at 17:26, Danny Ayers wrote:

> 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.

Not sure one needs a timestamp even. 

I can see a comment being useful perhaps.

"Hi we met yesterday at the bar..."

Henry


> 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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