Read Write Web — Q1 Summary — 2015 [via Read Write Web Community Group]

Summary
2015 is to shaping up be the year that standards for reading and writing, and
the web in general, start to be put together into, next generation, systems and
applications.  Quite a comprehensive review post, contains much of what is
being looked forward to.

The Spatial Data on the Web working group was announced and the EU funded
Aligned project also kicked off.

Congratulations to the Linked Data Platform working group, who achieved REC
status this quarter, after several years of hard work.  Having spent most of
the last three month testing various implementations, I'm happy to say it has
greatly exceeded my already high expectations.


Communications and Outreach
A number of read write web standards and apps were demoed at the W3C Social Web
Working group F2F, hosted by MIT.  This seems to have gone quite well and
resulted in the coining of a new term "SoLiD" -- Social Linked Data!  Apps
based on the Linked Data Platform have been considered as part of the work of
this group.

 


Community Group
A relatively quiet quarter in the community group, tho still around 60 posts on
our mailing list.  There is much interest on the next round of work that will
be done with the LDP working group.  Some work has been done on login and
signup web components for WebID, websockets and a relaunch of WebIDRealm.


Applications
Lots of activity on the apps front.  Personally I've been working using GOLD,
but for also announced was the release of Virtuoso 7.2 for those that like a
feature rich enterprise solution.

Making use of the experimental pub sub work with websockets, I've started to
work on a chat application.  A profile reader and editor allows you to create
and change your profile.  I've continued to work on a decentralized virtual
wallet and props goes out to timbl who in his vanishingly small amounts of spare
time has been working on a scheduler app.


Last but not Least...

For those of you that like the web, like documentation, like specs and like
academic papers, all four have been wrapped into one neat package with the
announcement of linked open research.  It's a great way to document work and
create templates for upstream delivery.  Hover over the menu in the top right
and see many more options.  I'm looking forward to using this to try to bridge
the gap between the worlds of documentation, the web, and research.



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