status by using topics

This is one idea I have had for a long time. It may need a bit more user 
interface work, but what do you think?

I created the status values as a topic hierarchy and posted them 
http://www.annotea.org/mozilla/testdata/status.rdf so that I can share 
the status with other people. It is all RDF.

Then I subscribed the status.rdf file and created a new bookmark file 
and started giving some of my existing mozilla/xul problems a status. 
Here is what it looks like right now 
http://www.annotea.org/mozilla/status.png.

User can control if she/he wants to see the status by deciding weather 
to subscribe the status.rdf or not.

Currently order is just alphabetical, but Jose actually already created 
schema for adding the order to the bookmark schema so I could implement 
that and start using it.

The nice thing here is that groups of users or even individual users can 
easily define what status information they want to use. The better 
standard we make the more it is hopefully subscribed but if it does not 
meet the needs of the people they can make their own and if it makes 
sense just make connections from their status topics to a more widely 
accepted status topics.

Marja

Received on Tuesday, 22 March 2005 10:34:07 UTC