The About Vocabulary

Abstract

The About vocabulary provides useful terms for “about” pages describing people or things.

1. Introduction

1.1 Purpose and Scope

The namespace for the About vocabulary is https://ns.1024.gdn/About/#.

1.2 Relationship to Other Vocabularies

About is conceived of as an extension to F·O·A·F, and is expected to be used in conjunction with the latter.

In this document, the following prefixes are used to represent the following strings :—

Prefix	Expansion
`about:`	`https://ns.1024.gdn/About/#`
`foaf:`	`http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/`
`xsd:`	`http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#`

2. Dictionary of Terms

2.1 Class Definitions

2.1.1 Agent (`foaf:Agent`)

I·R·I: http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Agent
Is Defined By: http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/

A “thing which does stuff”. Agents can be people, software, forces of nature…

2.1.2 Document (`foaf:Document`)

I·R·I: http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Document
Disjoint With: foaf:Project
Is Defined By: http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/

An intentionally‐broad category encompassing any kind of non‐ephemeral, citable work, including books, images, audiovisual material, games, postage stamps, anything which might be stored on a computer…

2.1.3 Project (`foaf:Project`)

I·R·I: http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Project
Disjoint With: foaf:Agent; foaf:Document
Is Defined By: http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/

An intentionally‐broad category encompassing those (abstract) things which might be conceived of as “projects”. Projects are not Agents (they are controlled by Agents), nor Documents (although they may result in Documents).

2.2 Object Property Definitions

2.2.1 is familiar with (`about:isFamiliarWith`)

I·R·I: https://ns.1024.gdn/About/#isFamiliarWith
Domain: foaf:Agent
Range: foaf:Document
Is Defined By: https://ns.1024.gdn/About/

A Document with which this Agent has familiarity.

While this property is often used to describe formal or technical documents, like specifications, it can also denote other culteral artefacts, like fictional stories.

2.3 Data Property Definitions

2.3.1 task count (`about:taskCount`)

I·R·I: https://ns.1024.gdn/About/#taskCount
Domain: foaf:Project
Range: xsd:nonNegativeInteger
Functional?: yes
Is Defined By: https://ns.1024.gdn/About/

The total number of tasks, whether outstanding or completed, which comprise this Project. This property is intended for use with task progress to roughly indicate the current progress of a Project towards completion.

2.3.2 task progress (`about:taskProgress`)

I·R·I: https://ns.1024.gdn/About/#taskProgress
Domain: foaf:Project
Range: xsd:nonNegativeInteger
Functional?: yes
Is Defined By: https://ns.1024.gdn/About/

The number of tasks which have been completed for this Project. This property is intended for use with task count to roughly indicate the current progress of a Project towards completion.