- From: Paola Di Maio <paola.dimaio@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 14:43:28 +0530
- To: Scott Jenson <scott@jenson.org>
- Cc: Paola Di Maio <paoladimaio10@googlemail.com>, Ian Dickinson <ian@epimorphics.com>, Martin Voigt <martin.voigt@ontos.com>, "public-swisig@w3.org" <public-swisig@w3.org>
Scott thanks for reply. My view only: the question you pose brings up the issue of multiple, often orthogonal perspectives as to what the semantic web is. Most web scientist are happy to discuss these. The reply may depend on what you mean by semantic web, which can be more or less narrowly defined. From where I come from, the semantic web consist of explicitly represented semantic relations between URIs. We havent built anything yet from this side, and what we are aiming at (once our charter is tightened up a bit to confirm this) some kind of high level specification for a general functional interface for the semantic web. >From what I read so far, what you are doing fits in we could be helping the physical web project by working towards a universal interface to access, query and manage the network of devices and related datasets What would help us here is some idea of what your system looks like (in design terms), so that we could, in principle, include any requirements you may have in our work A question in return: is the physical web already thinking what kind of interface is it going to have, and would you benefit from input from this community (bearing in mind that we are a collection of individuals with different views on things), Cheers PDM On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 3:45 AM, Scott Jenson <scott@jenson.org> wrote: > Hello, sorry for my late reply, the public interest in the Physical Web has > been very strong and we're very busy here. I'm happy to talk to you more and > of course, happy to help. > > I do have a question about the semantic web as it relates to the Physical > Web. We are trying very hard to make the functionality of the Physical Web > very focused: it is primarily a discovery service that connects URIs in the > physical world to your phone (tablet, etc) We are thrilled that so many > people want to build on top of it but usually we find they can do so without > changing what the Physical web is trying to do. So my first question to you > would be "Could you continue your work on SWISIG on top of the Physical Web > or do you think there needs to be changes deep down?" > > Scott > > On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 2:55 AM, Paola Di Maio <paola.dimaio@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Dear Scott >> >> cc Iain Dickinson, Danbri (who also also follow you on twitter) >> Martin Voigt, W3C SWISI community co-chair >> SWISIg PUBLIC mailing list >> >> >> I read with interest about your project here >> https://github.com/google/physical-web >> >> and learn about a proposed requirement of a 'standard' to support such >> a universal interface >> >> I am happy to see work done in this direction, there is a need for it >> :-) >> >> I develop universal systems interfaces, writing a paper on the subject >> >> together with fellow practitioners 2012 started a W3C commjunity SWISI >> http://www.w3.org/community/swisig/ >> >> here is a summary of our members activities in this space >> http://www.w3.org/community/swisig/preliminary-report-april-2014/ >> >> one of our goals is to start work (brainstorming, analysis of the >> field, requirements gathering etc) toward such a standard >> >> your projects resonates with many of us >> >> we would welcome your input and contribution at any level >> >> - What can this community do to support the vision for your project? >> >> - What input can you provide to stimulate our community to >> consolidate vision of such a standard? >> >> Please consider joining this community, or give us a remnote talk (a >> short video or research note) addressing the community with >> suggestions/idea of how to go forward, >> >> >> Hope to connect soon >> >> Best regards >> >> Paola Di Maio, >> Chair W3C SWISIG > >
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