Re: [Tracker] Proposal for contact ontology (NCO)

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

Hi Florent,

On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 23:59 +0100, THEVENET Florent wrote:
> I'm very interested in NCO ontology and I saw the modifications you made
> from the original Nepomuk ontology.
> I must say that of not very fond of some of these changes. First because
> you seems to assume that only IM clients and mail apps will use NCO.
> Then because with the IMContact class you lost semantic meaning. Finally
> because I don't understand the need for an MetaContact thing, while
> Nepomuk's ontology has a powerful ContactMedium class.

It looks like you've missed the most recent NCO changes we did last
week. Among other things, it drops IMContact and MetaContact. It should
be a lot more consistent with how email addresses and phone numbers are
handled in Nepomuk upstream.

> First, we should create a nco:ServiceAccount class, a subclass of
> nco:ContactMedium. It describes a (web)service on which contacts are
> registered when linked to any nco:Role. When linked to contact-me it
> represents a web(service) on which I'm registered and from where my
> contacts can come.

Adding support for more than just email and instant messaging certainly
makes sense. We just haven't worked on this so far.

JÃrg

 http://git.gnome.org/browse/tracker/commit/?id=8156ca933a10ef995ca1ef62bfe91699ab3bcef7