Modelling Forum Discussions
Reported by Martin Atkins | January 28th, 2009 @ 10:11 AM | in ActivitySchema Draft 2
Need to figure out how to model interactions with forums and other such discussion systems.
- Creating a topic in a board/forum.
- Replying to an existing topic.
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Martin Atkins January 28th, 2009 @ 10:25 AM
Idea:
New object type "discussion-message" which models all messages posted in forums and other discussion systems. (including mailing lists, potentially.)
An object with no thr:in-reply-to is considered a top-level message, which in most systems also creates a new "thread", "topic" or "discussion" with this message as its root.
Objects with thr:in-reply-to are considered to be replies within an existing topic.
Systems supporting only flat discussion would be modelled as having all topic replies in-reply-to the topic root. Threaded discussions would be modelled with the in-reply-to describing the correct tree.
Open questions:
- Is discussion-message a sub-type of some other type? ("article", perhaps?)
- Is it appropriate to use discussion-message in-reply-to arbitrary other objects, to model comment threads attached to things? Do we need a more specific "forum-message" type so that aggregators can differentiate between "Martin replied to (item)" and "Martin posted a message in the discussion (item)"?
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