Mailing List description RDF vocabulary

[Edit] : MLRDF / MaLiDeRVo has become DOAML.

Here is the draft of an RDF vocabulary aimed at describing mailing lists. You can make proposals, comment, criticize etc. via this blog. Thank you in advance for your participation

Copy/paste of the RDFS: (http://ns.balbinus.net/mailinglist/, or via RDFS Explorer)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
		xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#"
		xmlns:owl="http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#"
		xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/"
		xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
		xmlns:dct="http://purl.org/dc/terms/">
	
	<owl:Ontology rdf:about="http://ns.balbinus.net/mailinglist#">
		<dc:creator>
			<foaf:Person>
				<foaf:name>Vincent Tabard</foaf:name>
				<foaf:nick>balbinus</foaf:nick>
				<foaf:mbox_sha1sum>ef755f7a687f4a443e47295cc1b3ac3b8c935037</foaf:mbox_sha1sum>
				<rdfs:seeAlso rdf:resource="http://foaf.balbinus.net/" />
			</foaf:Person>
		</dc:creator>
		<dct:created>2004-09-28T20:58:10.0CET</dct:created>
		<dc:format>application/rdf+xml</dc:format>
		<dc:description>An RDF vocabulary aimed at describing mailing lists. I thought
		that could be useful, provided that there are lots of
		mailing lists in the semantic web world...</dc:description>
	</owl:Ontology>
	
	<rdfs:Class rdf:about="http://ns.balbinus.net/mailinglist#MailingList">
		<rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://ns.balbinus.net/mailinglist#" />
		<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">Mailing list</rdfs:label>
		<rdfs:label xml:lang="fr">Liste de diffusion</rdfs:label>
		<rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">A Mailing list.</rdfs:comment>
		<rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Group" />
	</rdfs:Class>
	
	<rdfs:Class rdf:about="http://ns.balbinus.net/mailinglist#PrivateMailingList">
	 	<rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://ns.balbinus.net/mailinglist#" />
		<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">Private mailing list</rdfs:label>
		<rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">A private Mailing list, in which only members
		can post, and membership is restricted (submitted to moderator's
		approval).</rdfs:comment>
		<rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="http://ns.balbinus.net/mailinglist#MailingList" />
	</rdfs:Class>
	
	<rdfs:Class rdf:about="http://ns.balbinus.net/mailinglist#MemberOnlyMailingList">
		<rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://ns.balbinus.net/mailinglist#" />
		<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">Member-only mailing list</rdfs:label>
		<rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">A private Mailing list, in which only members
		can post.</rdfs:comment>
		<rdfs:subPropertyOf rdf:resource="http://ns.balbinus.net/mailinglist#MailingList" />
	</rdfs:Class>
	
	<rdfs:Class rdf:about="http://ns.balbinus.net/mailinglist#PublicMailingList">
		<rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://ns.balbinus.net/mailinglist#" />
		<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">Public mailing list</rdfs:label>
		<rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">A public Mailing list, in which anyone can
		post, even without subscribing.</rdfs:comment>
		<rdfs:subPropertyOf rdf:resource="http://ns.balbinus.net/mailinglist#MailingList" />
	</rdfs:Class>
	
	<rdf:Property rdf:about="http://ns.balbinus.net/mailinglist#subscribe">
		<rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://ns.balbinus.net/mailinglist#" />
		<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">subscribe</rdfs:label>
		<rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">Mail address to mail to subscribe to
		the list.</rdfs:comment>
		<rdfs:domain rdf:resource="http://ns.balbinus.net/mailinglist#MailingList" />
		<rdfs:subPropertyOf rdf:resource="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/mbox" />
	</rdf:Property>
	
	<rdf:Property rdf:about="http://ns.balbinus.net/mailinglist#unsubscribe">
		<rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://ns.balbinus.net/mailinglist#" />
		<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">unsubscribe</rdfs:label>
		<rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">Mail address to mail to unsubscribe from
		the list.</rdfs:comment>
		<rdfs:domain rdf:resource="http://ns.balbinus.net/mailinglist#MailingList" />
		<rdfs:subPropertyOf rdf:resource="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/mbox" />
	</rdf:Property>
	
	<rdf:Property rdf:about="http://ns.balbinus.net/mailinglist#requests">
		<rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://ns.balbinus.net/mailinglist#" />
		<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">requests</rdfs:label>
		<rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">Mail address to mail to send commands
		(subscribe, unsubscribe) to the list manager.</rdfs:comment>
		<rdfs:domain rdf:resource="http://ns.balbinus.net/mailinglist#MailingList" />
		<rdfs:subPropertyOf rdf:resource="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/mbox" />
	</rdf:Property>
	
	<rdf:Property rdf:about="http://ns.balbinus.net/mailinglist#mbox">
	 	<rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://ns.balbinus.net/mailinglist#" />
		<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">mail address</rdfs:label>
		<rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">Mail address to mail to send messages to
		the list subscribers.</rdfs:comment>
		<rdfs:domain rdf:resource="http://ns.balbinus.net/mailinglist#MailingList" />
		<rdfs:subPropertyOf rdf:resource="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/mbox" />
		<rdfs:type rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#InverseFunctionalProperty" />
	</rdf:Property>
	
	<rdf:Property rdf:about="http://ns.balbinus.net/mailinglist#archives">
		<rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://ns.balbinus.net/mailinglist#" />
		<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">archives</rdfs:label>
		<rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">The URI of one list's archives.</rdfs:comment>
		<rdfs:domain rdf:resource="http://ns.balbinus.net/mailinglist#MailingList" />
	</rdf:Property>
	
	<rdf:Property rdf:about="http://ns.balbinus.net/mailinglist#moderator">
		<rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://ns.balbinus.net/mailinglist#" />
		<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">moderator</rdfs:label>
		<rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">A moderator of a list.</rdfs:comment>
		<rdfs:domain rdf:resource="http://ns.balbinus.net/mailinglist#MailingList" />
		<rdfs:range rdf:resource="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person" />
	</rdf:Property>
	
 	<rdf:Property rdf:about="http://ns.balbinus.net/mailinglist#policy">
		<rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://ns.balbinus.net/mailinglist#" />
		<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">policy</rdfs:label>
		<rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">The URI of a policy (privacy, P3P...)
		that concerns the list.</rdfs:comment>
		<rdfs:domain rdf:resource="http://ns.balbinus.net/mailinglist#MailingList" />
	</rdf:Property>
	
</rdf:RDF>

I have chosen not to include properties as name, topic or description. They already exist in DC (dc:title, dc:subject, dc:description), and i thought that was useless to repeat them. Do you agree with me?

Do you think some properties are missing? Comment this post!

Commentaires

1. Le vendredi 1 octobre 2004 à 21:22, par balbinus

I must add moderator-of and stuff like that...

2. Le mardi 7 décembre 2004 à 15:41, par Bob DuCharme

Do you have any sample data? If you make up some RDF that conforms to this schema and describes at least 10 or 15 existing mailing lists, you'll get a better idea of how well your schema works. Perhaps a perl script could go through www.w3.org/Mail/Lists.htm... and generate a lot of the RDF for you, but make sure to get use different mailing lists from other sources besides the W3C as well. For example, apache.org, sourceforge, etc.

Bob

3. Le mardi 7 décembre 2004 à 21:26, par balbinus

I will try this asap... ie as soon as I recuperate < and > keys on my keyboard ^^ (really hard to code XML without them...).

An example of DOAML can be found at www.doaml.net/ : the description of DOAML's mailing list is using DOAML.

4. Le vendredi 17 décembre 2004 à 18:25, par balbinus

Here is the result of the transformation: www.doaml.net/doaml/w3ml/ - I'll post it on DOAML's website asap

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