[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst

[Benja Fallenstein]

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Changes by:     Benja Fallenstein <address@hidden>      03/09/18 07:22:58

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        FutureVision   : vision.rst 

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        rdf/semweb relation

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@@ -176,6 +176,9 @@
 
 
 
+With Nelson [XXXfw], we propose a user interface based
+not on monolithic applications, but on *applitudes*:
+
 - user-interface -level co-operation by independently written applitudes 
 
   - different applitudes add orthogonal behaviours and properties to items
@@ -392,11 +395,37 @@
 and the subsequent structural computing framework (Nürnberg et al 1997)
 are vital for an entirely item-based environment. XXX
 
-
+       
 RDF, Semantic Web
 -----------------
 
-Our approach is different because ...
+The Semantic Web [xxxref] community uses RDF to represent
+*machine-readable information*. Berners-Lee [xxxref] argues that
+the World Wide Web has been successful in integrating
+human-readable documents, but a similar approach is needed
+for machine-readable data.
+
+While we emphasize the use of an RDF hyperstructure
+by a *human* user, much of the information a user
+stores in Fenfire would be useful data from a Semantic Web
+point of view. For example, a calendar created with
+Fenfire might be published on the Web, allowing Semantic Web
+tools to alert users in the case of conflicting appointments
+in a working group.
+
+The other way around, information on the Semantic Web
+can easily be shown inside Fenfire. For example, we might
+show which doctors are available in our city, if the
+local Yellow Pages publish this data as RDF on the Web.
+
+The Semantic Web community is building tools to automatically
+convert data between different languages built on top of RDF
+[xxxreftbl]. Such tools could be of great use in Fenfire;
+for example, when using two views written by different programmers,
+which show the same kind of information but assume different
+RDF vocabularies, a data conversion tool could convert the
+information into the vocabularies expected by either view.
+
 
 Open Hypermedia
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