Similar to how the <activity:object-type> blog entry is a specialization of the "article" object type, we may also want to add a "forum-topic" of "forum-post" or "forum-root" object-type to describe articles that are commentable in Forums.
Brainstorm
A "forum-topic" <activity:object-type> could be a specialization of the "article" object type:
http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/forum-topic
Examples
Services that have forums include:
Potential mark-up / attributes
<entry>
...
<activity:verb>...post</activity:verb>
<activity:object>
<activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/forum-topic</activity:object-type>
<id>ID of forum topic</id>
<title>Title of the forum topic</title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="/URL to forum topic self page" />
<!--Optional--><summary>Snippet of the forum topic</summary>
<!--Optional--><content>Full text of the forum topic</content>
<published>Date / Time the forum topic was posted</published>
</activity:object>
</entry>
Comments (1)
Chris Messina said
at 5:22 pm on Sep 1, 2009
I'm wondering if a forum is just another kind of collection — like a set of photos on Flickr that you can comment on...? We certainly can use the ATOM comment threading extension to cover comments posted to forums — that are in reply to an original "article" or "topic".
A question that I have is how this is different from a blog post?
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