sioc:UserAccount vs foaf:OnlineAccount?

[Jodi Schneider]

I see that sioc:UserAccount [1] is a subclass of foaf:OnlineAccount
[2]. Are there any important differences between them, or can they be
considered roughly synonymous?

Thanks!
-Jodi

[1] http://rdfs.org/sioc/spec/#term_UserAccount
[2] http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/OnlineAccount

[Alexandre Passant]

Hi,

cc-ing foaf-dev

On 27 Jul 2010, at 19:58, Jodi Schneider wrote:

> I see that sioc:UserAccount [1] is a subclass of foaf:OnlineAccount
> [2]. Are there any important differences between them, or can they be
> considered roughly synonymous?

There's indeed roughly synonymous.

However, IIRC, Dan said in the past that OnlineAccount can be used for things like voip, phone, etc.
While in SIOC, we mainly consider Web-related services (however, nothing formally prevents the use of sioc:User for a skype account).

I'd personally use sioc:User for Web-based service, and foaf:OnlineAccount for other online but not web-based services.
Other opinions ?

Alex.

>
> Thanks!
> -Jodi
>
> [1] http://rdfs.org/sioc/spec/#term_UserAccount
> [2] http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/OnlineAccount
>

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[Uldis Bojars]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Alexandre Passant
<alexandr...@deri.org> wrote:
> On 27 Jul 2010, at 19:58, Jodi Schneider wrote:
>
>> I see that sioc:UserAccount [1] is a subclass of foaf:OnlineAccount
>> [2]. Are there any important differences between them, or can they be
>> considered roughly synonymous?
>
> There's indeed roughly synonymous.

Roughly synonymous, yes.
But there are differences as well:

1) as Alex wrote, sioc:UserAccount is more specific. In most cases it
is used to describe a user account on Social Web services while
foaf:OnlineAccount is broader and may refer, for example, to
e-commerce accounts such as PayPal.

2) they differ in what properties are commonly used together with
sioc:UserAccount and foaf:OnlineAccount.

> I'd personally use sioc:User for Web-based service, and foaf:OnlineAccount for other online but not web-based services.
> Other opinions ?

Uldis