Proposal to drop the timeline property and class

[solid]

Proposal to drop the timeline property and class

[kidehen]

@csarven,

Why not simply add the following for now, since that would be less disruptive:
@prefix solid: <https://www.w3.org/ns/solid/terms#> .
@prefix as: <http://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#> .
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .

solid:timeline owl:equivalentProperty as:outbox .

BTW -- http://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams# still doesn't resolve to an RDF document (where content is constructed using JSON-LD or RDF-Turtle or some other notation).

[csarven]

The equivalance relation would be fine but I really wonder if it is worth it. If there is no significant usage, I think it'd be favourable to simply drop it as to not pollute the solid terms ns.

curl -kHL 'Accept: application/ld+json' http://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams works, but AFAICT, it doesn't have other RDF representations (at this time).

[melvincarvalho]

Thanks for the suggestion and very valuable pointers.

Currently timeline is used in my social app, named timeline.

Will have a look at as : outbox, when I get some time free, and see if it is a good match for the app.

[csarven]

Is the application public? What's the URL? Actively maintained/used?

[timbl]

@csarven Remember @melvincarvalho has all kinds of apps and poof of concept things which he keeps on various shelves but may be brought out quickly if they get priority.

I am interested in the timeline problem, as th home pane (currently extremely rudimentary) only lists things and does not put them in order, and I need a timeline personally. I am thinking of changing the widget which tracks public and private uses of an app and adding timeline output to it. UI.authn.registrationControl https://github.com/linkeddata/solid-ui/blob/master/src/signin.js#L422 -- the "Keep a private/public note of this xxxx" box in the meetulator for example

[melvincarvalho]

@csarven currently 2 URIs for timeline

URIs iirc :

• http://solid-social.github.io/timeline/?date=recent&profile=https:%2F%2Fmelvincarvalho.com%2F%23me
• https://github.com/solid-social/timeline

Current Screenshot

There has been some interest in this social app. It was put on ice for a while due to

• Waiting for OIDC to be coded
• Resource to code it up
• Angular made breaking changes that require a refactor

I agree that timeline is under specified. Part of the reason is that we needed to find out how DSN would perform under the solid paradigm.

Do you think AS : outbox is an equivalent property. It sounds a bit different. Timeline I consider to be a list of all your posts over time. Outbox I am familiar with from the email paradigm where you send messages and they are in a container ready to be processed.