Hi Rene, Can you provide a more concrete example of what you are trying to do? I am having a hard time grasping your question.
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 7:47 AM, René Peinl <rene.pe...@hof-university.de> wrote: > Dear Shindig community, > > we are facing a challange in our project, that we are using Shindig to > collect activities from various systems and want to show activities coming > from Shindig in every system. Currently Shindig only delivers the basic > activity data like activity verb, object, target and so on. However, we’d > like to show a natural language version of the activity in the activity > stream (full sentence) which includes multi-lingual presentation of the > contents. An example would be „<actor> has added a comment to <object>“ or > „<actor> renamed document <object> into <target>“. The activitystrea.ms > standard specifies the title attribute for that purpose. > > <http://activitystrea.ms/specs/json/1.0/#activity> > http://activitystrea.ms/specs/json/1.0/#activity > > In Shindig this attribute attribute is present and handled, but only in a > pass-through manner. > > > > In order to avoid duplication of code, our natural choice would be to extend > Shindig to generate the natural language version of the activities in the > title attribute, if title is not present in the database. We would use files > for translation and formatting templates (only string formatting, not > colouring or layout), so that every administrator can influence both without > any coding. > > > > Would this be an interesting extension for the Shindig base system and do > you have any suggestions on how to integrate such an extension from an > architecture point of view? We are e.g. not sure whether to deliver several > translation in the same JSON as shown here > > > <http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-activitystreams-core-20141023/#naturalLanguage > Values> > http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-activitystreams-core-20141023/#naturalLanguageV > alues > > or use a parameter from the client to choose the language. > > My guess would be that other people will face similar problems. > > > > Regards > > René > > >
