posing a call for community projects on the upcoming GRDDL standard

in todays telcom we spoke about a possible Challenge we could pose to 
push GRDDL to the public.
We came up with the idea to describe what has to be done to make it 
rock, and then hope that
the community will pick it up.

the previous call for community projects was:
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/sweo/public/CommunityProjects.html
http://www.w3.org/blog/SW/2007/03/07/sweo_community_projects

I would open up the call to include RDFa (to make more people happy), 
but allowing grddl alone is also ok.


Some of the things I made up on the way, but I think the general 
direction is ok:
(I will pay the crate of beer, if this is a problem)

something along these lines:

"GRDDL gets your data out there"
GRDDL is a standard that helps users to make more of the data that is 
published on websites.
Today, we already see how people can reuse structured data in RSS feeds 
and ATOM, which forms the
backbone of the blogosphere.
With GRDDL and RDF it is now possible to do the same not only for blog 
posts and podcasts,
but for appointments, contact details, price-lists, your tags, your 
restaurant menue and many other data formats
you find on the web.

The Semantic web education and outreach group, together with the GRDDL 
working group, pose a challenge to the public:
Given GRDDL as a tool, show us how you can improve the usability of a 
website and make users benefit from the data
available on the site.

The rules are:
* you have two months time
* you can build teams
* announce that you take part in the challenge by sending an e-mail to 
@@@TODO@@@
* use GRDDL as a technology in the middle
* end-users have to benefit from it.
* the winner of the challenge gets a symbolic crate of beer
   and an invitation to the W3C headquarters at MIT in Chicago

The goal to achieve is:
Find one typical copy/paste tasks that involves copying data from one 
website to another, and solve it automatically using GRDDL.

As an example:
Take an event from "eventful", such as this one:
http://eventful.com/events/chicago/learning-bridging-the-islamwest-chasm-/E0-001-006369143-5
"Bridging the Islam-West Chasm"

Write a GRDDL file that transforms this event to a vCalendar RDF format
(you can use http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/ical#)

Import this data into an online or offline calendaring application, 
perhaps using a Firefox plugin,
or mashup the data with other data you find on the semantic web.
For example, you could generate an augmented iCal file that adds 
information about the location using dbpedia.org.



best
Leo




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