specs Digest, Vol 40, Issue 11

David Recordon recordond at gmail.com
Mon Dec 7 17:02:25 UTC 2009


vCard is great, but it's never really become "webby".  I see Portable
Contacts as taking vCard and introducing it to the web.

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Nat Sakimura <sakimura at gmail.com> wrote:
> IMHO, all the data types in your table should be supported, and then grouped
> into "classes".
> Portable contact is very useful, but so is vCard, as you can use it to
> populate many address books. (Besides, vCard covers everything in Portable
> contact.)
> It is not much of fragmentations nor too much work on the OP part.
> Having said that, I am not particularly pushing for vCard. It was a merely
> an example of the notion of the "class".
>
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Chris Messina <chris.messina at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I think that would create mire fragmentation at thus point.
>>
>> I think PortableContacts is the right collection of attributes for AX and
>> OpenID and should largely be adopted as the standard for OpenID. Facebook
>> Connect is much easier to work with because it reduces complexity and the
>> number of options for doing things -- like the number of formats for
>> accessing user data.
>>
>> If sites that want to adopt OpenID have to learn some custom profile data
>> schema AS WELL AS PortableContacs -- they're likely to skip it and go
>> straight to FB Connect.
>>
>> I've proposed a schema for using PoCo with AX; why don't we move to
>> improve it and make it the standard for OpenID going forward?
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone 2G
>>
>> On Dec 7, 2009, at 6:53, Nat <sakimura at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Shade,
>>>
>>> That's exactly what I was proposing: the class for AX.
>>>
>>> For example, vCard will be one class in axschema. The same for openSocial
>>> person etc.
>>>
>>> e.g.
>>>
>>> http://axschema.org/vCard will specify all the sub-items of a vCard.
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>>
>>> =nat at Tokyo via iPhone
>>>
>>> On 2009/12/07, at 10:05, David Recordon <recordond at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> It's missing out on the idea of having a schema which can cross
>>>> contexts.  Right now each schema – with the exception of AXSchema.org
>>>> – has no concept of namespaces and stands alone.  We've always wanted
>>>> a schema which uses URLs to identify each element, but there haven't
>>>> been any.  Maybe Portable Contacts wants to take this on since it is
>>>> also used by OpenSocial?
>>>>
>>>> --David
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Chris Messina <chris.messina at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I did this in June:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pSGbbhtwI4kN_nJ1GXeQ7Qg&output=html
>>>>> I just wish someone would actually use it!
>>>>> Chris
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 4:02 PM, SitG Admin
>>>>> <sysadmin at shadowsinthegarden.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm specifically pointing out that AXSchema reinvents vcard and a
>>>>>>> host of
>>>>>>> other profile formats, which adds yet another burden for developers
>>>>>>> to map
>>>>>>> other schema, like Portable Contacts, to the AXSchema.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Could these other profile formats be mapped, on an alias, to a set of
>>>>>> AXScheme that collectively mirror each format? As in, "vcard" alias
>>>>>> maps to
>>>>>> a set of AXSchema that actually just mirror 'vcard' format.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -Shade
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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