- From: Murray Maloney <murray@muzmo.com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:38:27 -0500
- To: "GRDDL Working Group" <public-grddl-wg@w3.org>
I think that I was the one who coined "GRDDL-aware Agent" and I think that I should try to explain why I felt that "-aware" was originally suggested... On one hand, we can certainly expect to see a proliferation of stand-alone agents which meet the criteria laid out by Dan earlier in this thread. And I can see how "GRDDL Agent" seems much more suitable for that class of processor. On the other hand, and for reasons that I cannot express, I expect to see GRDDL-awareness being built into future generations of Web Browsers -- which are otherwise known as "User Agents." In such cases, I do not like to think of the UA as a GRDDL Agent, because it does so much more. Rather, I think of them as being "GRDDL-aware." Further, since I do not believe that such an agent has an obligation to perform transformations at will, but will rather perform transformations only at the behest of the user -- who presumably initiates the transformation by clicking over an anchor or UA button, or by way of user preferences -- I think that GRDDL-awareness as being critically important to the user experience. That is, I do not expect to transform every web page that shows up in my browser window. Rather, I expect that my GRDDL-aware UA will notify me when it is aware of GRDDL transformations being available, and perhaps offer a pop-up or some-such to show me useful triples. In time, my UA would learn from me which transformations I consider valuable. My UA could also notify other agents which might use the GRDDL results to populate my address book or calendar. I guess that what I saying that I don't find a GRDDL Agent, in and of itself, that interesting. Rather, I see GRDDL-awareness being a highly desirable for Semantic Web applications and agents. Finally, since Dan is a stickler for sticking with decsions, I'll point out that we already made a decision to use the term "GRDDL-aware agent" Regards, Murray
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