Re: [apps-discuss] Webfinger: acct "link relation"

[Melvin Carvalho <[e-mail]>]

On 14 March 2012 06:56, Paul E. Jones <[e-mail]> wrote:

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> In the latest Webfinger draft, we introduced a “acct” link relation named
> “acct” (see Section 6).  The intent with that link relation was to allow
> for one to inform a webfinger client that a user’s account information may
> be retrieved elsewhere.  I believe this will be important, since a user
> might have more than one account and this might serve as a means of
> associating them.  Certainly, it would be a way of retrieving information
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> Perhaps calling the new link relation “acct” is too restrictive, though.
> If one used Webfinger to query other kinds of information other than a
> user’s account, there may still be a need/desire to refer the Webfinger
> client to other resources.****
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> What do you think about changing this section such that the link relation
> is renamed to “seealso”?  This would still be useful when querying an acct
> URI, but would also be useful when querying any URI since it  is more
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> Do note that “seealso” would be different than the “alternate” link
> relation.  It would not refer to alternative information, but would refer
> to supplemental information.  In practice, the supplemental information may
> be the more informative since the bulk of the information related to a user
> might be held under a different account.
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seeAlso already exists as an "extended relation type"

http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/CR-rdf-schema-20000327/#s2.3.4

Seems like a good choice.  In fact, timbl uses it in his profile:

$ rapper -g http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/card | grep seeAlso

<http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/card#i>
    <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#seeAlso> <
http://dig.csail.mit.edu/2008/webdav/timbl/foaf.rdf> .

sameas is also similar

<http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/card#i>
    <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#sameAs> <http://identi.ca/user/45563> .



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