Hi Olivier, Well-justified, thanks! Of course I acknowledge that the foaf:agent behind the sioc:ip_address changes frequently and without warning.
Maybe I should start from a different angle. I want to model the accounts that are labeled by the sioc:ip_address, and distinguish these accounts from proper, user-created, named accounts, which *are* meant to be associated with a single foaf:agent. Do you have thoughts (or do others?) on how to best do that? -Jodi On 23 Jul 2012, at 10:29, Olivier GENDRIN wrote: > 2012/7/22 Jodi Schneider <[email protected]>: >> I want to consider removing the domain restriction from sioc:ip_address. >> >> Currently sioc:ip_address is a DataTypeProperty with Domain:sioc:Item. This >> prevents saying: >> sioc:ip_address rdf:type sioc:UserAccount >> >> But that would be a natural statement for Wikipedia (and other MediaWiki >> wikis), where an IP address is, in effect, an account. So I need to assign a >> sioc:ip_address , not only to an item, but also to a user. >> >> What do you think? > > I disagree. > > The use of IP adress as an account by MediaWiki is an abuse or a trick > to get an identification of who is editing a webpage, but it's not a > proper equivalent of an account. > > In France, ISP provide dynamic IP adress, so the foaf:agent that is > behind a sioc:ip_address changes at least each day (and there could be > a lot of agents behind the same address). > > The operation made by MW is to create an account whose name appends to > be the same than the IP address, it's not the same than the IP address > is an user account. > > -- > Olivier G. > http://identi.ca/lespacedunmatin > http://www.lespacedunmatin.info/blog/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIOC-Dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sioc-dev?hl=en.
