Milestone 1c Move RDF forms into its own repo

[timea-solid]

First we investigate where RDF forms are used in SolidOS stack. A big overview is in this [gitHub search](https://github.com/search?q=org%3ASolidOS%20widgets.appendForm(&type=code)

• Profile Editor pane

  • it depends on the 2 ontologies in profile-pane

• solid-ui

  • need to investigate if this call is in use

• solid-panes

  • the solid-ui basic preference is possibly duplicated in solid-pane basicPreference and uses https://preferencesFormText.ttl
  • schedulePane loads formsForSchedule.ttl
  • forms pane which loads the form uploaded in the store through the file explorer (its icon)
    • does not seem to work
  • UI pane NOT in use NOW. Which loads as above a file that one uploads

• contacts-pane

  • which loads different forms like forms.ttl from the ontology folder of the contact pane from solid-panes](https://github.com/SolidOS/contacts-pane/tree/cf49efe007b6b7b0f13b0be8fca897cc35fcc628/src/ontology)

• issue pane -issue.js

  • loads a TTL embedded in same file as above
  • and also in issuePane.js. which loads ontology from its own repo

• meeting pane

  • loads the meetingDetailsForm ontology from solid-panes

• project pane

  • and also loads projectDetailsForm.ttl

[melvincarvalho]

Great analysis @timea-solid

Are the contact/meeting forms actually fetched from solid.github.io at runtime, or are they bundled inline at build time?

[jg10-mastodon-social]

I previously used forms intensively so forms pane definitely did work.

The pane tests whether there is a form associated with the currently selected type.
https://github.com/SolidOS/solid-panes/blob/540133ac84232b8d7e6da494691a3fec11707d7c/src/form/pane.js#L21
https://github.com/SolidOS/solid-ui/blob/5b4b3d99d7710bdfccb90d715e401d78a7f23ed6/src/widgets/forms.js#L1089

So it renders as a possible pane when the selected resource has a UI:annotationForm triple (or creation form, which I didn't really use)

E.g. if I'm looking at a recipe resource and the store has previously loaded schema:Recipe ui:annotationForm :RecipeForm, then form pane displays :RecipeForm

[jeswr]

Hi @timea-solid the ODI are currently doing work to create some artefacts based on some of the most used shapes in Solid; as part of this we should have an artefact within the next week that lists all of the shapes used in SolidOS to support this work.

[timea-solid]

@jeswr this is great and moving towards standardizing some shapes.
Forms are a bit different. What I mean: lets take the profileForm this for example needs to be split in socials and CV and so on because a Form should be specific for one topic. Basically, a form should be an ontology, subset of a shape (possibly) which drives the UI and should reside in the repo of the according pane.

Also, what I found out is: the contacts used forms and the contacts shape do not contain pronouns or nickname information. This is something in use in SolidOS so the profile form will contain it.

Conclusion: forms are different than shapes and depend on the UI of the application that uses them.

[timea-solid]

After a second investigation - please ignore what I said. We need a location to deploy our forms in order for the server to know where to find the ontology. We use 'solid.github.io' of the pane where they are part of.
Example: take a look at the @prefix soc: <https://solidos.github.io/profile-pane/src/ontology/socialMedia.ttl#>. in my profile.

And I can argue, that if the ODI deploys the shapes/ontologies somewhere central, we could make use of them in our code.
We can keep the forms local and the needed extended ontologies somewhere else, central.

@melvincarvalho I investigated a bit the solid.github.io loading of forms, and it is just an artifice. We used 'solid.github.io' because we needed a full path in the rendering of the form.
I fixed this in the profile pane and now it is using the base of where the form is located: https://github.com/SolidOS/profile-pane/blob/6b17c345e1e1d25f3c13e0cd92e6bfb6035b1936/src/editProfilePane/rdfFormsHelper.ts#L4
and in the ontology we use https://github.com/SolidOS/profile-pane/blob/6b17c345e1e1d25f3c13e0cd92e6bfb6035b1936/src/ontology/resumeForm.ttl#L15

For now we will test if this works. I did the changes as part of this milestone.