Re: posing a call for community projects on the upcoming GRDDL standard

Leo Sauermann wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

I would also open it up to RDFa. Note that, via the XSLT script of
Fabien Gandon, RDFa is also GRDDL-able, ie, there is no real problem
here. Furthermore, the upcoming RDFa syntax document will refer to an
HTML profile document, and the latter should (eventually...:-) be edited
to refer to the XSLT script. Ie, RDFa is a also a GRDDL citizen:-)

Ivan

> 
> 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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