[Proposal] A lexicon for user-defined collections

[chrisshank.com]

I think I’ve incorporated almost everyone’s feedback/suggestions:

• added a tags field to collections
• remove strongRefs
• removed the list lexicon in favor of fractional indexes
  • this does mean that collections have one ordering across all apps
  • fixed the scheme type

Still not sure about @disnetdev.com’s point about deduplicating, currently leaning towards apps interpreting at their own discretion.

@byarielm.fyi

I’ll wait to see the tangled repo for more thoughts, but regarding “interested in hearing about more use cases” one that comes up is being able to make collections/lists of atproto apps that reference the community app lexicon. This would be something both the Aster and Eurosky Portal would make use of since right now we’re just hard-coding apps to categories. The ability to add metadata like ‘Made in Netherlands’ or ‘Science’ is something I can see being of interest.

ah yes, these are tuse cases I was imagining as well!

@disnetdev.com

Currently we have collections to manage your saved articles, which can either be private (just stored on the Skyreader servers) or public using either the semble or margin lexicons. That’s communicated to the user as “store/link on semble/margin” (with ui pickers for which service to use) but a common collection lexicon could clean all that up (and skyreader’s semble/margin lexicon adapters) and tell a nicer story.

I’m also experimenting with “reading rooms”, shared collections of articles to read together with co-presence affordances, that might fit as well. For rooms I need some notion of membership, not sure if that belongs on the lexicon (accessType plus collaborators like what semble does?) or atproto space / atmospheric group.

ah super interesting, particularly reading rooms. Collaboratively build a list and co-presence emerges from folks providing itemData for each item. I’ve been thinking a collaborators field too, this is a good example. Even in a atproto space, I can see it being useful to pick a subset of people to collaborate on certain collections.