help with new profile

[Ricardo Kirkner]

Hello,

I'm documenting the semantics for an HTML based hypermedia API and I thought I should write a profile in order to better document the semantics.

I found that there is an alps profile that matches most of my resource data attributes (SoftwareApplication) but that is missing some pieces I want to define. I have a few questions though

1. Is it possible to "inherit" from multiple profiles? (to mix attributes from other profiles that are not included in SoftwareApplication)
2. SoftwareApplication defines a "screenshot" attribute, but if I want to specify my custom Application to have a list of screenshots, should I define my custom descriptor, or just include multiple "screenshot" descriptors?

thanks,
Ricardo

[mca]

Ricardo:

couple things:

- ALPS[1] is still very unstable (not even an IETF I-D yet!) so be careful here while we sort it out and start the publishing process

- the SoftwareApplication[2] profile you reference was pulled (forked, actually) directly from Schema.org. That is stable, AFAIK.

now for the whole inherit/extend stuff from the ALPS POV.

- yes, ALPS has some content about how inheritance should work[3] but that text is pretty vague (sorry). I don't know of any implementations of this yet.

- what I've been telling people to do right now is to "fork* the profile that comes the closest, add what you need and publish that forked profile into the ALPS Profiles repo[4] on github. This is a bit more effort but it will make sure your profile does not drift and will help build up a set of curated profiles that are not just copies of something else, but are *real-world* examples.

Finally, I invite you to join the ALPS mailing list[5] where you can discuss this with the few currently working with ALPS. We're all very interested in making it better based on real world uses.

Cheers 

[1] http://alps.io/spec/index.html 

[2] http://alps.io/schema.org/SoftwareApplication.xml

[3] http://alps.io/spec/index.html#prop-descriptor

[4] https://github.com/alps-io/profiles

[5] https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!forum/alps-io

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