Re: Introducing Vocabularies of a Friend (VOAF)

2011-01-25 Thread Hugh Glaser
Very interesting stuff, but... Sorry Bernard, I agree very much with Chris here. The name meant little to me as Vocabularies of a Friend. In fact I think it misled me - I immediately assumed it was to do with representing information about people (as FOAF), and it took me quite a while to

Re: Introducing Vocabularies of a Friend (VOAF)

2011-01-25 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 1/25/11 8:01 AM, Hugh Glaser wrote: Very interesting stuff, but... Sorry Bernard, I agree very much with Chris here. The name meant little to me as Vocabularies of a Friend. Hmm. Is it the Name or Description that's important? In fact I think it misled me - I immediately assumed it was

Re: Introducing Vocabularies of a Friend (VOAF)

2011-01-25 Thread William Waites
* [2011-01-25 11:21:45 -0500] Kingsley Idehen kide...@openlinksw.com écrit: ] Hmm. Is it the Name or Description that's important? ] ] But what about discerning meaning from the VOAF graph? Humans looking at documents and trying to understand a system do so in a very different way from

Re: Introducing Vocabularies of a Friend (VOAF)

2011-01-25 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 1/25/11 11:59 AM, William Waites wrote: * [2011-01-25 11:21:45 -0500] Kingsley Idehenkide...@openlinksw.com écrit: ] Hmm. Is it the Name or Description that's important? ] ] But what about discerning meaning from the VOAF graph? Humans looking at documents and trying to understand a system

Re: Introducing Vocabularies of a Friend (VOAF)

2011-01-25 Thread Christopher Gutteridge
Sorry Kingsley, I think you've just demonstrated a very risky assumption. People will just mishear and mis-read and get confused. Most web programmers look for a good-enough example to copy, not read the docs. On 25/01/11 17:09, Kingsley Idehen wrote: On 1/25/11 11:59 AM, William Waites

Re: Introducing Vocabularies of a Friend (VOAF)

2011-01-25 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 1/25/11 12:24 PM, Christopher Gutteridge wrote: Sorry Kingsley, I think you've just demonstrated a very risky assumption. People will just mishear and mis-read and get confused. Most web programmers look for a good-enough example to copy, not read the docs. But you're assuming my

Re: Introducing Vocabularies of a Friend (VOAF)

2011-01-25 Thread Bernard Vatant
Hello all Points taken. Somehow changed the headings and itroduction at http://www.mondeca.com/foaf/voaf-doc.html to make more explicit what is is about (hopefully). I did not change (yet) either VOAF acronym or namespace. To tell the truth, my first idea was LOV for Linked Open Vocabularies,