RDFA for Consultations and foaf/vcard/replyByEmail

[Harry Metcalfe]

I've been helping MoJ with their consultations RDFA, and I'm not quite
sure what we should be doing with email addresses, people, orgnisations
and so forth.

Generally, an email address is specified for responses which is what I
imagined we'd use arg:replyByEmail for. That said, a person is often
named as the appropriate contact, which makes me think we should use
ArgotPerson to mark the name up. That, though, includes foaf:mbox --
which is the same address as arg:replyByEmail.

Other things strike me as strange when there's also a snail mail
address. Attempting to mark up the address lead me along a path:
ArgotReply -> ArgotPerson -> ArgotOrganisation -> ArgotLocation -- but
that doesn't seem right at all: ArgotLocation doesn't include street
address terms. I've just used some terms from vcard to describe an
address, with a <div typeof="v:VCard"> nested in a <div
rel="argot:replyTo"> -- and I have a nagging feeling that that's not
right.

Also -- if a consultation has a relevant area attached to it (ie,
building extra runways) is ArgotLocation what we'll use to describe that
(eg dc:coverage), and if so, is an area of affect similar enough to an
address for responses that we can use the same argot for both?

Finally -- I think we need an argot to describe a list of consultations,
otherwise things will be hard to discover.

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[Mark Birbeck]

Hi Harry,

(I've snipped a couple of paragraps, which I'll pick up in separate threads.)

> I've been helping MoJ with their consultations RDFA, and I'm not quite
> sure what we should be doing with email addresses, people, orgnisations
> and so forth.
>
> Generally, an email address is specified for responses which is what I
> imagined we'd use arg:replyByEmail for. That said, a person is often
> named as the appropriate contact, which makes me think we should use
> ArgotPerson to mark the name up. That, though, includes foaf:mbox --
> which is the same address as arg:replyByEmail.
>
> Other things strike me as strange when there's also a snail mail
> address. Attempting to mark up the address lead me along a path:
> ArgotReply -> ArgotPerson -> ArgotOrganisation -> ArgotLocation -- but
> that doesn't seem right at all: ArgotLocation doesn't include street
> address terms. I've just used some terms from vcard to describe an
> address, with a <div typeof="v:VCard"> nested in a <div
> rel="argot:replyTo"> -- and I have a nagging feeling that that's not
> right.

It's exactly right. :)

There are a couple of examples that show how to do this. The first is
in ArgotReply, and the second is in the 'full' example linked to from
the top of ArgotConsultation.

Both of the examples use vCard and FOAF properties to describe a
person and the organisation they work for, including their address.
This block of properties is then linked in to the consultation via the
argot:replyTo property.

Let me know if that helps.

Thanks.

Mark

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[Harry Metcalfe]

Ok. I shall consider my strange gut feel appropriately corrected :)

An example for addresses would be very useful, I think.

Cheers,

Harry