Re: Vague "Digital Wallet" terminology

On 10/19/14 3:02 PM, Manu Sporny wrote:
>> >I don't think you necessarily need a wallet for that, you rather
>> >need to nuke dated stuff like NSS since it blocks progress for
>> >numerous applications (including wallets).
> +1, again - "wallet" is a loaded and useless term, but the marketing
> folks seem to like it (and I can see an argument to use it to cast a
> wide net initially). That said, I don't think the technical groups
> should use the term "wallet" because any definition of "wallet" is going
> to be so generic and useless as to not help direct the work. For example:
>
> digital wallet - A piece of software or hardware that is capable of
> initiating an economic transaction, relaying the result of the
> transaction, and storing the result of a transaction. It is also capable
> of storing identity information, loyalty cards, and any other
> tangentially related information that may be used in economic transactions.

RDF based Nanotation [1] is a nice way to flesh out terminology, clearly.

## Nanotation Start ##

<https://twitter.com/hashtag/DigitalWallet#this>
rdfs:label "DigitalWallet" ;
skos:altLabel "Digital Wallet" ;
owl:sameAs dbpedia:Digital_wallet ;
rdfs:comment """A piece of software or hardware that is capable of
                 initiating an economic transaction, relaying the result 
of the
                 transaction, and storing the result of a transaction. 
It is also capable
                 of storing identity information, loyalty cards, and any 
other
                 tangentially related information that may be used in 
economic transactions.
                 -- Manu Sporny .
             """ ;
dcterms:references 
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webpayments/2014Oct/0095.html> ;
skos:related 
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/Identity#this>,<https://twitter.com/hashtag/WebID#this>, 

              <https://twitter.com/hashtag/eCommerce#this> .

## Nanotation End ##

Links:

[1] http://kidehen.blogspot.com/2014/07/nanotation.html -- About Nanotation
[2] 
http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/about/html/https/www.facebook.com/kidehen/posts/10152714262980751 
-- basic entity description page
[3] http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/c/8F5AMT -- deeper faceted browsing 
oriented page
[4] http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/c/9DML4HLO -- Digital Wall 
description (reasoning & inference disabled)
[5] http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/c/8F5AV3 -- Digital Wallet 
description (reasoning & inference enabled).

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