Semantics and Belief contexts - was: PaceDuplicateIdsEntryOrigin posted

2005-05-25 Thread Henry Story
are fundamental, so they cannot be swept under the carpet. They will keep popping up. Henry Story [1] http://www.imc.org/atom-syntax/mail-archive/msg15608.html [2] http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Notation3.html

Re: Refresher on Updated/Modified

2005-05-24 Thread Henry Story
My thought currently is that atom:updated by being the sole date in atom is in fact what people are thinking of as atom:modified. It is just specified very flexibly and constrained not by language but by how it will be used. The game of publishing entries will push people to be

Re: inheritance issues

2005-05-24 Thread Henry Story
Simplify, simplify. I am for removing all inheritance mechanisms... Henry On 24 May 2005, at 02:02, Bill de hÓra wrote: Eric Scheid wrote: oh darn. This damn inheritance stuff is nasty. Inheritance suggests a programming model to allow the evaluator to be coded for it. It's rarely as

Re: Author and contributor

2005-05-23 Thread Henry Story
On 23 May 2005, at 07:22, A. Pagaltzis wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED] (http://www.imc.org/atom-syntax/mail-archive/msg15517.html), Antone Roundy suggests: make atom:author plural keep atom:contributor punt bylines to an extension +1 to all I think that makes sense, especially if one thinks

Re: updated and modified yet again

2005-05-23 Thread Henry Story
*directly* contain an entry with the same atom:updated value. It would allow that a feed could contain two feeds each with different entries containing the same id and the same atom:updated time stamp. It would then be up to the consumer to decide which one it trusts. Henry Story

Re: atom:modified indicates temporal ORDER not version....

2005-05-23 Thread Henry Story
May 2005, at 02:51, Robert Sayre wrote: On 5/21/05, Henry Story [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 22 May 2005, at 02:27, Robert Sayre wrote: On 5/21/05, Bob Wyman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Sayre wrote: Temporal order of what? They are all the same entry, so what is it you are temporally

Re: Accidental and intentional atom:id collisions

2005-05-21 Thread Henry Story
On 18 May 2005, at 17:30, Antone Roundy wrote: On Wednesday, May 18, 2005, at 09:12 AM, Henry Story wrote: I supposed the surest way to make it impossible to fake the id, is to specify that by dereferencing the id and doing a GET (whatever the correct method of doing

Re: Accidental and intentional atom:id collisions

2005-05-21 Thread Henry Story
On 21 May 2005, at 08:44, Eric Scheid wrote: On 21/5/05 4:24 PM, Henry Story [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So those are just a few thoughts on the topic. It just seems that if one works with the web these phishing problems seem to disappear. all good stuff, with the exception of making atom:id

Re: atom:modified indicates temporal ORDER not version....

2005-05-21 Thread Henry Story
On 22 May 2005, at 01:27, Robert Sayre wrote: On 5/21/05, Bob Wyman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Sayre wrote: So, it's about disambiguating versions of an entry, right? No. It has nothing to do with versions or even variants. I have explained that on numerous occasions. The

Re: atom:modified indicates temporal ORDER not version....

2005-05-21 Thread Henry Story
On 22 May 2005, at 02:27, Robert Sayre wrote: On 5/21/05, Bob Wyman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Sayre wrote: Temporal order of what? They are all the same entry, so what is it you are temporally ordering? We are discussing the temporal ordering of multiple non- identical

Re: Accidental and intentional atom:id collisions (was Re: Consensus call on last raft of issues)

2005-05-18 Thread Henry Story
the two in the aggregation, which really aren't, are required to be treated as the same. I always thought that two entries with the same id should be treated as the same entry. What makes you thing otherwise? Henry Story http://bblfish.net/blog/

Re: PaceAllowDuplicateIdsWithModified

2005-05-16 Thread Henry Story
Should one not then to make atom:update a MAY? We don't really need 2 MUST dates. Henry On 16 May 2005, at 00:12, David Powell wrote: PaceAllowDuplicateIDs received some opposition because of its use of atom:updated to differentiate multiple revisions of an entry [1][2] [3]. I've posted a couple

Re: atom:updated vs entry inheritance?

2005-05-13 Thread Henry Story
On 12 May 2005, at 23:22, Eric Scheid wrote: On 13/5/05 7:12 AM, Henry Story [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to recapitulate: we have 2 feed documents with successive atom updated values, and with the same entry (same id) with the same time stamp but some values that are not identical. Does

Re: PaceAllowDuplicateIDs

2005-05-12 Thread Henry Story
the mistake artificially in your own feed by increasing the time precision. So if the original entries both claim to have been updated at 12:45 you could have one of them be modified at 12:45:30 and the other at 12:45:31. Just a thought. Henry Story On 12 May 2005, at 01:40, David Powell wrote: I'm

Re: atom:updated vs entry inheritance?

2005-05-12 Thread Henry Story
On 12 May 2005, at 18:49, Eric Scheid wrote: On 13/5/05 2:04 AM, Roger B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gah! What is the true atom:updated for the following entry? Eric: The entry-level version, IMO. What if an atom processor had previously seen that entry with that atom:updated ... should it do

Re: PaceFeedIdOrSelf

2005-05-10 Thread Henry Story
On 10 May 2005, at 04:23, Antone Roundy wrote: On Monday, May 9, 2005, at 07:52 PM, Eric Scheid wrote: rel=self is in no way a substitute for an identifier Why not? the uri can change. Yes, I acknowledged that a little after why not?. So we have a tradeoff--greater permanence vs. greater

Re: PaceAllowDuplicateIDs

2005-05-08 Thread Henry Story
If I can summarize your point: You prefer applications that only allow one entry with the same id per feed. Those that don't should use a different format that has not been defined yet. This seems little weak an argument to me. I think we should permit certain types of communication to

Re: entry definition

2005-05-08 Thread Henry Story
On 8 May 2005, at 16:35, Graham wrote: On 7 May 2005, at 1:35 pm, Henry Story wrote: My definition is making me wonder whether I should not in fact accept that link alternate is a MUST. Not really. There's no reason why the resource an Atom entry describes has to be visible online anywhere

Re: Blogged and RDF

2005-05-08 Thread Henry Story
On 8 May 2005, at 21:43, Reto Bachmann-Gmuer wrote: back home and looking at the code: could you give me a hint on how to get the instances of AtomContent given a com.sun.labs.tools.blog.Blog or org.openrdf.model.Graph (I was looking at the SesameRDFFactory). Well you can get all instances of a

entry definition

2005-05-06 Thread Henry Story
Some have been clamoring for a good definition of an entry. Here is one I have thought of recently. An Atom Entry is a resource (identified by atom:id) whose representations (atom:entry) describe the state of a web resource at a time (the link alternate) Any thoughts? Henry

Re: PaceAllowDuplicateIDs

2005-05-05 Thread Henry Story
Tonight something incredible happened to me. You won't believe it. I was walking back from the pubs when I got snapped by a passing space ships full of hyper advanced aliens. They did various experiments on me, and cloned me 1000 times. It is terrible. I just don't know what to do. I suppose

Re: PaceAllowDuplicateIDs

2005-05-05 Thread Henry Story
://google.com you get todays front page. Tomorrow you get tomorrows front page. What's the problem? Is http://google.com a hidden category system? Henry Story http://bblfish.net/blog/

PaceAlternateLinkWeakening

2005-05-05 Thread Henry Story
I have put PaceAlternateLinkWeakening on the wiki, though it was discusses on this list, as it might not have cought the eye of the editors/secretary. http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/PaceAlternateLinkWeakening I think this is very uncontroversial clarification. Henry Story

Re: PaceAllowDuplicateIDs

2005-05-05 Thread Henry Story
On 5 May 2005, at 16:38, Graham wrote: On 5 May 2005, at 3:32 pm, Henry Story wrote: As I explained in my lengthy reply to your lengthy post, I think one should be able to do either. Each way has its advantages and disadvantages. Let the publisher decide which mechanism to use. Well please

Re: PaceAllowDuplicateIDs

2005-05-05 Thread Henry Story
Hi Dave, nice to see you participate here. I understand your points, and I myself thought the way you did for a while. [Oops, I see now that you have retracted your point. Oh well. I had already started writing the following] On 5 May 2005, at 17:27, David M Johnson wrote: I'm -1 on

Re: PaceAllowDuplicateIDs

2005-05-05 Thread Henry Story
On 5 May 2005, at 17:53, Graham wrote: On 5 May 2005, at 4:22 pm, Henry Story wrote: If you don't want to keep a history of the entries all you need to do is drop all but the latest entry with the same id. There is nothing more to it. Just show the user the last one you came across

Re: PaceExplainDuplicateIds

2005-05-01 Thread Henry Story
*of* the id resource, but these representations are *about* the state of some other resources at a particular time (most notably the link alternate resource). Henry Story http://bblfish.net/blog/ e.

Re: PaceOptionalSummary

2005-04-28 Thread Henry Story
I'll +1 on MAY. On 27 Apr 2005, at 04:29, Robert Sayre wrote: On 4/26/05, Tim Bray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul I are gonna watch a little more debate and then we'll call rough consensus one way or the other, at which point I at least will become crushingly rude to anyone who wants to invest

call for a vote - was: One reason we have duplicates entries is that we have duplicate feeds...

2005-04-19 Thread Henry Story
the scenes. As far as I can remember not one good reason was put forward as to why there should be a restriction of one entry with the same id per feed. In fact I was nearly convinced that the consensus was to drop the restriction. So I call for a real open vote on the issue. Henry Story On 19 Apr

Re: call for a vote - was: One reason we have duplicates entries is that we have duplicate feeds...

2005-04-19 Thread Henry Story
On 19 Apr 2005, at 18:27, Bill de hÓra wrote: Henry Story wrote: So I call for a real open vote on the issue. You don't need to call for a vote, just ask the chairs/editors who keep track of such matters, about the particular specification. Well we need some objective way to tell what

Re: call for a vote - was: One reason we have duplicates entries is that we have duplicate feeds...

2005-04-19 Thread Henry Story
of anything, so I'd better not participate anymore. On 19 Apr 2005, at 19:20, Paul Hoffman wrote: At 6:12 PM +0200 4/19/05, Henry Story wrote: I don't see where the consensus was by the way. Correct. There was no consensus to remove the current wording. And I never saw any vote on the issue

Re: call for a vote - was: One reason we have duplicates entries is that we have duplicate feeds...

2005-04-19 Thread Henry Story
Just to end on a positive note, I'll +1 this suggestion by Graham. Henry On 19 Apr 2005, at 18:30, Graham wrote: I'm in favour of allowing duplicate ids when the source-id is different to simplify creating merged feeds, which would allow the client to figure out what to do. Under any other

Re: I don't get it, perhaps you could include an expanded explanation in a textual message, now that our machine protocol has broken down.

2005-04-08 Thread Henry Story
My mother does this all the time. :-) On 8 Apr 2005, at 14:23, Bill de hÓra wrote: :) Only that it's common enough (in my part of the world anyway) to send short messages in subject lines that end with 'eom'. The point is that people do communicate solely through subject lines in email. I think

Re: PaceAlternateLinkWeakening

2005-04-07 Thread Henry Story
Here is a nice small surgical change. I am not sure if I have convinced Thomas Broyer with the diagrams I put online, but I am still very happy with the following replacement, after having carefully looked at the criticisms. Proposal A -- replace [[ The value alternate signifies that

next, previous

2005-04-06 Thread Henry Story
Are the next and previous links that we thought may be attachable to the feed really too controversial to get into the final atom spec? They would be really useful to archive feeds. Henry Story

Re: PaceAlternateLinkWeakening - was Managing entries/entry state

2005-04-03 Thread Henry Story
be alternate versions of a resource? Perhaps you mean that they are alternate versions of the representations described by the urn:uuid:1225...? [1] http://www.imc.org/atom-syntax/mail-archive/msg13940.html [2] see: http://www.imc.org/atom-syntax/mail-archive/msg13959.html Henry Story wrote: On 1 Apr

Re: PaceAlternateLinkWeakening - was Managing entries/entry state

2005-04-03 Thread Henry Story
On 3 Apr 2005, at 23:02, Thomas Broyer wrote: Henry Story wrote: Perhaps you mean that they are alternate versions of the representations described by the urn:uuid:1225...? That's it! (I think...) Now that we agree, I let you use the web-arch to describe it. Ok. So let us try the slightly clumsy

Re: PaceAlternateLinkWeakening - was Managing entries/entry state

2005-04-02 Thread Henry Story
On 1 Apr 2005, at 19:52, Thomas Broyer wrote: Henry Story wrote: On 1 Apr 2005, at 14:53, Eric Scheid wrote: Prior art in other specs says the relationship is from where the link is found, and to the thing at @href. I think we are agreeing here. The link is from the representation entry/entry

Re: PaceAlternateLinkWeakening - was Managing entries/entry state

2005-04-02 Thread Henry Story
On 2 Apr 2005, at 14:16, Eric Scheid wrote: On 2/4/05 8:15 PM, Henry Story [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: no. ...omething.else.atom is a resource, not a representation [1]. So what you mean to say is that ...somethingelse.atom is an alternate resource of me. Firstly, why is html.../html

Re: PaceAlternateLinkWeakening - was Managing entries/entry state

2005-04-01 Thread Henry Story
On 1 Apr 2005, at 01:38, Eric Scheid wrote: On 1/4/05 9:10 AM, Henry Story [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The value alternate signifies that the containing element is an alternative representation of the resource identified by the IRI in the value of the href attribute. You do realise you've

PaceAlternateLinkWeakening - was Managing entries/entry state

2005-03-31 Thread Henry Story
, Henry Story wrote: I would just like to revisit this question, because it will help clarify the alternate relation. On 1 Mar 2005, at 11:39, Henry Story wrote: On 20 Feb 2005, at 13:25, Bill de hÓra wrote: Graham, Eric, My thinking goes like this, - Is there a difference between an entry

Re: PaceAlternateLinkWeakening - was Managing entries/entry state

2005-03-31 Thread Henry Story
On 1 Apr 2005, at 00:34, Mark Nottingham wrote: On Mar 31, 2005, at 10:07 AM, Henry Story wrote: The value alternate signifies that the containing element is an alternative representation of the IRI in the value of the href attribute. ...an alternate representation of the resource identified

Re: Managing entries/entry state [was PaceRepeatIdInDocument solution]

2005-03-30 Thread Henry Story
I would just like to revisit this question, because it will help clarify the alternate relation. On 1 Mar 2005, at 11:39, Henry Story wrote: On 20 Feb 2005, at 13:25, Bill de hÓra wrote: Graham, Eric, My thinking goes like this, - Is there a difference between an entry and the chunk of XML you

atom link analysis - was: link confusion?

2005-03-29 Thread Henry Story
clearer to some :-) Henry Story [1] http://www.atompub.org/2005/03/12/draft-ietf-atompub-format-06.html [2] the title attribute of the link is called l_title to avoid confusing it with the title element of the entry [3] I am surprised the web arch ontology does not have the vocabulary for :type

Re: Why is alternate link a MUST?

2005-03-28 Thread Henry Story
+1 I think it makes a lot less sense for a feed than it does for an entry. Henry On 23 Mar 2005, at 14:19, Brett Lindsley wrote: I know this discussion has occured before, but I would like to revisit the question of why an atom:feed MUST contain at least one atom:link element with a relation of

Re: link questions

2005-03-28 Thread Henry Story
Thanks, that helps a lot. Perhaps what is missing are use cases. Henry On 29 Mar 2005, at 03:34, John Panzer wrote: Henry Story wrote on 3/28/2005, 4:12 PM: - I must have missed the arguments about self. But the documentation does not really help me understand what I would want to use that link

copyright

2005-03-25 Thread Henry Story
thoughts on that? Henry Story [1] http://bblfish.net/blog/page5.html#43 [2] http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/002790.shtml

Re: Person identity

2005-03-19 Thread Henry Story
: - you have to drop (c) - or you have to give the relation a name other than atom:id Henry Story [1] http://www.imc.org/atom-syntax/mail-archive/msg13618.html [2] http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mereology/ [3] http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/ On 18 Mar 2005, at 16:23, Thomas Broyer wrote: I propose adding

Re: draft-ietf-atompub-format-06

2005-03-16 Thread Henry Story
What's the problem exactly? The spec looks quite nice to me on the whole. ((Perfection would come with an OWL semantics as shown by RSS1.1, but otherwise it looks ok.)) Henry Story On 16 Mar 2005, at 16:17, Graham wrote: On 16 Mar 2005, at 1:03 pm, Robert Sayre wrote: PaceHeadless. The chairs

Re: Managing entries/entry state [was PaceRepeatIdInDocument solution]

2005-03-01 Thread Henry Story
. In any case I have seen no proof that having a feed document with multiple entries with the same id may have any problematic consequences. On the other hand it would be overwhelmingly helpful. Henry Story cheers Bill [1] I emphasise 'sensibly say' here rather than 'sensibly do'. Just because

Re: Managing entries/entry state [was PaceRepeatIdInDocument solution]

2005-02-23 Thread Henry Story
On 23 Feb 2005, at 08:53, Henry Story wrote: On 23 Feb 2005, at 00:18, Bill de hÓra wrote: Sorry that should have been Paul Hoffman wrote: My read of the mailing list is that people are simply looking at the model described in the document differently. Some folks actively want the model the way

Re: Managing entries/entry state [was PaceRepeatIdInDocument solution]

2005-02-23 Thread Henry Story
, but I would rather wait to see where the whole new version of the spec has put us before embarking on the debate. I gather it should be ready any time now. Henry Story On 23 Feb 2005, at 12:10, Bill de hÓra wrote: Henry Story wrote: Bill de hÓra then responded: [[ -1. That is of no little value

Re: PaceRepeatIdInDocument solution

2005-02-20 Thread Henry Story
On 20 Feb 2005, at 17:10, Graham wrote: On 20 Feb 2005, at 4:07 am, Bob Wyman wrote: PubSub regularly produces feeds with multiple instances of the same atom:id. Which part of universally unique didn't you understand? Ok, I see so you interpret the universally unique in [[ An Identity construct

Re: PaceRepeatIdInDocument solution

2005-02-19 Thread Henry Story
notice, have absolutely no argument to defend your case. Henry Story On 18 Feb 2005, at 23:55, Graham wrote: Allowing more than one version of the same entry in a syndication feed is unacceptable in itself, which is fundamentally incompatible with archive feeds, no matter what the conceptual

Re: PaceRepeatIdInDocument solution

2005-02-19 Thread Henry Story
On 18 Feb 2005, at 23:55, Graham wrote: Allowing more than one version of the same entry in a syndication feed is unacceptable in itself, which is fundamentally incompatible with archive feeds, no matter what the conceptual definition of id is. Graham Let me make my point even clearer. If

Re: PaceRepeatIdInDocument solution

2005-02-19 Thread Henry Story
On 19 Feb 2005, at 16:46, Graham wrote: On 19 Feb 2005, at 11:23 am, Henry Story wrote: Let me make my point even clearer. If something is fundamentally incompatible, then it should be *dead-easy* to prove or reveal this incompatibility. i) Syndication documents shouldn't ever contain multiple

PaceRepeatIdInDocument solution

2005-02-18 Thread Henry Story
that PaceRepeatIdInDocument tried to disambiguate one way and others tried to disambiguate the other way. As such it correctly resolves an ambiguity by allowing both options. Henry Story Ps. text above written quickly cause I have to go do some exercise.

Re: PaceRepeatIdInDocument solution

2005-02-18 Thread Henry Story
types of ids that were hidden in the ambiguous text that PaceRepeatIdInDocument tried to disambiguate one way and other Paces tried to disambiguate the other way. As such it correctly resolves an ambiguity by allowing both options. Henry Story Ps. text above written quickly cause I have to go do some

PaceRepeatIdInDocument was: Consensus call on last round of Paces

2005-02-17 Thread Henry Story
Story On 15 Feb 2005, at 20:38, Henry Story wrote: On 15 Feb 2005, at 20:12, Tim Bray wrote: PaceRepeatIdInDocument Lots of discussion, more -1's than +1's. DISPOSITION: No consensus, close it. But now we have a problem, in that this removed ambiguity in one direction, just closing it leaves

Re: PaceRepeatIdInDocument

2005-02-11 Thread Henry Story
- the counter proposal is making life more difficult for deployers of atom who instead of just being able to paste their new entry into a feed document must now verify that that document not have another entity with the same id. Henry Story

Re: Rehashing? Why is link required in entry?

2005-02-11 Thread Henry Story
On 11 Feb 2005, at 22:40, Norman Walsh wrote: The options as I see them: 1. I could lie. According to some people in this group there is no way you can lie, since there is no semantics to atom, it is just pure syntax! For something to be a lie it has to misrepresent the truth, and for that to

Re: BAG Question: What is a feed? Sliding-Window or Current-State?

2005-02-07 Thread Henry Story
to the other on this issue), I think we should rather try to decide on by weighing as Bob Wyman did, the advantages of each. And if this still does not allow one to choose one should perhaps just allow both. Henry Story Ps. If you do read this please send me a postcard, or short e-mail :-) Cheers

Re: PaceArchiveDocument posted

2005-02-07 Thread Henry Story
proceeding any further it may be worth now comparing the complexity of both proposals in detail. My guess is that the historical one is just a little surprising, but that is all. Henry Story

Re: PaceArchiveDocument posted

2005-02-07 Thread Henry Story
in your feed. The spec allows you to remove all the old versions if you wish. After all the Present time, is just one element in the sequence of history. People who only want to live in the present don't negate history. They just don't remember it. Henry Story

Re: PaceFeedRecursive

2005-02-07 Thread Henry Story
On 19 Jan 2005, at 10:38, Henry Story wrote: I think the easiest way to get what you want is a 2 step procedure: 1. Merge the Head with the Entry constructs. They are not different enough for the difference to be important. 2. Make a Feed a subclass of Entry, with the extra property

Re: PaceEntriesElement

2005-02-07 Thread Henry Story
-1 I agree. Recursion can be placed in the model. It does not need to be in the syntax. In any case this is too big a change too late in the game. Henry On 7 Feb 2005, at 21:08, Antone Roundy wrote: -1: recursion is too complex and bulky.

Re: Call for final Paces for consideration: deadline imminent

2005-02-05 Thread Henry Story
On 5 Feb 2005, at 00:34, Robert Sayre wrote: Antone Roundy wrote: 3.5 Identity Constructs An Identity construct is an element whose content conveys a permanent, universally unique identifier for the resource (instantiated|described) by the construct's parent element. An Atom Document MAY

Re: Entry order

2005-02-05 Thread Henry Story
chronlogically by the modified date when they are. This may be a protocol issue, or it may just be a matter of adding a special info to the feed to specify its ordering. Henry Story http://bblfish.net/ On 4 Feb 2005, at 20:27, Walter Underwood wrote: --On February 3, 2005 11:21:50 PM -0500 Bob Wyman

Re: Posted PaceEntryOrder (was Entry order)

2005-02-05 Thread Henry Story
be completely up to the user. Some users may want only to see entries that they have read that have changed, as this may show a change of position of interest to them. Henry Story -- Dave

atom extensibility: Re: Don't mess with HeadInEntry!

2005-02-05 Thread Henry Story
time I am fully behind every movement to remove non core elements from Atom. Lets have a clean spec well defined spec. When enough people are left outside of the core, then I am sure talk of extensions will finally get to be serious. Henry Story On 4 Feb 2005, at 09:29, Bob Wyman wrote: We decided

Re: Proof-of-concept RDF mapping for Atom

2005-02-05 Thread Henry Story
Have you had any more luck with this part of the mapping? Is this a problem with the current Atom syntax if not? Henry Story On 28 Jan 2005, at 22:27, David Powell wrote: I think it handles everything except for xml:lang - I'm not sure what's happening with xml:lang at the moment - but it should

Re: atom extensibility: Re: Don't mess with HeadInEntry!

2005-02-05 Thread Henry Story
On 5 Feb 2005, at 13:49, Henry Story wrote: So perhaps what we could do in the next weeks is fill in the work I started in my proposal AtomAsRDF, that would allow Atom to be seen as an RDF/XML document, though one constrained by an Relax-NG syntax. This will require a week or two of serious group

Re: Call for final Paces for consideration: deadline imminent

2005-02-05 Thread Henry Story
very nicely and inconspicuously. At one point I had thought that properties such as author should be directly attached to the id construct, since they are immutable. But then one gets into problems of which are essential and which non essential properties... Henry Story -- Dave

Re: Posted PaceEntryOrder (was Entry order)

2005-02-05 Thread Henry Story
On 5 Feb 2005, at 18:48, Mark Nottingham wrote: On Feb 5, 2005, at 4:38 AM, Henry Story wrote: You put this in terms of databases and I put the question in terms of graphs (which if you have an rdf database to store your triples comes to the same thing). And my feeling is here that we should

Re: atom extensibility: Re: Don't mess with HeadInEntry!

2005-02-05 Thread Henry Story
don't understand what the fuss about the head element in the feed is (which is not quite to say that I am fully behind the head_in_entry). I think the head element is just a special entry. Henry Story

Re: New Pace: PaceAggregationInSeparateSpec

2005-02-04 Thread Henry Story
the user of the search engine made. Of course if an entry has a tag such as origin (which used to be on the table) then the entry it points to would be part of the metadata of the entry and so be a legitimate way of creating special selection of entries. Henry Story

Re: Call for final Paces for consideration: deadline imminent

2005-02-04 Thread Henry Story
A really clear way to specify this is to say that an id is a functional relation between an entry and a identity construct. This implies: -An Entry can only have one id. -Different Entries can have the same id. Of course because there is a bit of a confusion as to what is meant by an Entry

Re: Revised PaceIconAndImage, added PaceMultipleImages

2005-02-02 Thread Henry Story
on the icon brings you to a the original image the icon is a representation of. In one case [1] it occurred to me that have been more intuitive to have clicking on the image bring up a video. Henry Story [1] http://www.bblfish.net/blog/page3.html#25 On 2 Feb 2005, at 07:49, Tim Bray wrote: Having

Re: tagline - subtitle

2005-02-02 Thread Henry Story
pace, that a Feed is a structure that is a subclass of the Entry structure. And then we will really cut the length of the spec down to its core. Henry Story On 2 Feb 2005, at 17:17, Julian Reschke wrote: Graham wrote: Any chance of renaming atom:tagline to atom:subtitle? The two sample feeds posted

Re: PaceExtendingAtom

2005-02-02 Thread Henry Story
and an OWL ontology. This would be helpful and very useful. PaceExtendingAtom as it currently is stated is restrictive without being useful. Henry Story On 13 Jan 2005, at 19:27, Tim Bray wrote: +1 I wrote it and I still think it's necessary as a bare-minimum measure. -Tim

Re: tagline - subtitle

2005-02-02 Thread Henry Story
On 2 Feb 2005, at 18:09, Antone Roundy wrote: On Wednesday, February 2, 2005, at 09:49 AM, Henry Story wrote: Why not go one step further in generality and call the tagline the summary? Then we will be closer to the point I had been making in PaceEntriesAllTheWayDown2, and one step closer

Re: PaceExtendingAtom

2005-02-02 Thread Henry Story
[[ Also, Person Constructs, the atom:head element, and the atom:entry element allow the inclusion of foreign markup. ]] If one could add foreign markup anywhere then the above sentence would be redundant. Henry Story http://bblfish.net/ On 2 Feb 2005, at 20:01, Joe Gregorio wrote: How

Re: Dereferencing Identity Constructs

2005-01-31 Thread Henry Story
their cake and eat it too, may be to allow multiple id tags. Since an id is an inverse functional relationship between an Entry a Resource this should not cause any trouble. In any case there will never be any way you can limit the number of names a thing has. Henry Story

Re: Proof-of-concept RDF mapping for Atom

2005-01-30 Thread Henry Story
argue that the Atom working group could easily take a few steps to make the mapping be the identity map. Henry Story http://bblfish.net/

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-atompub-format-05.txt

2005-01-28 Thread Henry Story
On 28 Jan 2005, at 15:14, Danny Ayers wrote: On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 16:10:06 -0500, Robert Sayre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://atompub.org/2005/01/27/draft-ietf-atompub-format-05.html http://atompub.org/2005/01/27/draft-ietf-atompub-format-05.txt Thanks Robert. The Relax NG snippets make a

Re: PaceAttributesNamespace is *not* about syntax!

2005-01-27 Thread Henry Story
quickly and easily. On 27 Jan 2005, at 03:39, Sam Ruby wrote: Henry Story wrote: On 26 Jan 2005, at 15:03, Sam Ruby wrote: [...] But, now lets examine the statement proposed in PaceAttributeNamespace. It essentially alerts producers of something that that they need to be aware of. Now a quesion

Re: PaceAttributesNamespace is *not* about syntax!

2005-01-27 Thread Henry Story
On 27 Jan 2005, at 15:28, Bill de hÓra wrote: Rudeness objection. One reaps what one sows. [1] I'm seeing genuine questions Since you are asking, I'll answer them. On 26 Jan 2005, at 4:37 pm, Henry Story wrote: I think your assertion is wrong. If they are consuming or producing extended Atom [1

Re: PaceAttributesNamespace is *not* about syntax!

2005-01-26 Thread Henry Story
On 26 Jan 2005, at 15:03, Sam Ruby wrote: [...] But, now lets examine the statement proposed in PaceAttributeNamespace. It essentially alerts producers of something that that they need to be aware of. Now a quesion: what do they need do different with the knowledge that the RDF mapping does

Re: PaceAttributesNamespace is *not* about syntax!

2005-01-26 Thread Henry Story
Graham the Robot [1], when real people come and ask me something I'll talk to them. Henry On 26 Jan 2005, at 18:01, Graham wrote: On 26 Jan 2005, at 4:37 pm, Henry Story wrote: I think your assertion is wrong. If they are consuming or producing extended Atom [1] they will know exactly what

Re: AtomOWL AtomAsRDF

2005-01-18 Thread Henry Story
On 18 Jan 2005, at 02:18, Bill de hÓra wrote: Henry Story wrote: this implies the following rdf graph _e -entry- _E |-id--tag://sometag |-geo:x-10.1 |-geo:y-57.3 [On a technical point, I would disagree the graph is implied. As I said earlier, this kind

Re: AtomOWL AtomIsRDF

2005-01-17 Thread Henry Story
concerned that Atom is RDF will annoy people needlessly, which would be a shame since the work you've been doing on an RDF/OWL view of the Atom format is both interesting and valuable. Dan Henry Story [1] http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/AtomOWL [2] http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie

Re: Atom Link element: Failure

2005-01-10 Thread Henry Story
to create RDF/XML2 where this works out fine. Henry On 10 Jan 2005, at 01:29, Robert Sayre wrote: Henry Story wrote: [snip] 4) Property attributes -- both hreflang, href and all the other properties of Link are unique, and given that they are string literals (subsets of them

Re: Atom Link element: Success

2005-01-10 Thread Henry Story
://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#; atom:link atom:hreflang=de atom:href=http://example.org/de/2003/12/13/Atom03/ /atom:Entry in the validator you get the following graph: inline: servlet_77206.gif which is what I started off with. Henry Story On 10 Jan 2005, at 19:11, Henry

Re: Comment on process

2005-01-09 Thread Henry Story
I would like to agree with this. I have not had much of a weekend, and I am not sure I will be able to take so much time off work to put into this task. I am being paid to work on an open source blog editor, and I am not sure its ok for me to just spend all my time on this list. Also the

Re: Closure on Extensibility RDF

2005-01-08 Thread Henry Story
and outs of this standards process that will know how to turn that general idea into more specific and acceptable proposals. Henry On 8 Jan 2005, at 21:50, Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote: At 8:33 PM +0100 1/8/05, Henry Story wrote: Here is one suggestion I was thinking of to move along, quickly

Re: Closure on Extensibility RDF

2005-01-08 Thread Henry Story
that out. I can do with all the help out there :-) Understand that all I am proposing is a machine readable rewriting of what the current Atom spec says. That is most of what there is to it. The rest is just asking for a little good will. Yours sincerely, Henry Story http://bblfish.net/blog

Re: Closure on Extensibility RDF

2005-01-08 Thread Henry Story
On 9 Jan 2005, at 00:06, Henry Story wrote: The internet draft I want to propose is an OWL document. I can get this out tomorrow. It will essentially say everything the current Atom OWL spec says, Sorry it is past midnight here at I am typing a little fast. I meant It will essentially say

Re: Closure on Extensibility RDF

2005-01-08 Thread Henry Story
spec, or if you really insist, in a separate Draft. That will be machine interpretable xml, ie: running code. Good night, Henry Story On 9 Jan 2005, at 00:25, Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote: At 12:06 AM +0100 1/9/05, Henry Story wrote: The internet draft I want to propose is an OWL document. I

arbitrary limitations in Person

2005-01-04 Thread Henry Story
I was just looking closely at the atom:Person class [1] and found some pretty arbitrary limitations: - why should a Person only have one e-mail address? - why should a Person only have one associated url? It seems to me that one should follow the principle: only impose limitations that

Re: Role of RSS in Science Publishing: Atom is in RDF format

2004-12-20 Thread Henry Story
the RSS2.0 folk. It looks to me that Atom is close to ending the RSS wars. Time to smoke the peace pipe. Henry Story On 18 Dec 2004, at 18:21, Henry Story wrote: Feed head titleExample Feed/title link href=http://example.org// updated2003-12-13T18:30:02Z/updated

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