- From: Content-wire Research <editor@content-wire.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 14:20:03 +0100
- To: <semantic-web@w3.org>
Hi Moderator I am new to the list Is there a reason why my messages are not posted? Thanks! Pdm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Content-wire Research" <editor@content-wire.com> To: <semantic-web@w3.org>; "Karl Dubost" <karl@w3.org> Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 4:53 AM Subject: Re: Schedule and Events Conflicts Management in RDF > Hi Karl > > In a relational world, conflict is resolved with normalisation, > > I was interested to learn that even in the semantic world, normalisation > exists and functions pretty much the same way > > I think the solution to conflict could be instead of cramming everything > in the same schema, to create more than one primary entity, each entity > has all the necessary attributes > > Each entity/attribution relation can then be viewed/search according to > some kinf of facets navigation > Movie in my view should be a separate entity (ie movie duration is an > attribute of movie together with > actors, director etc) while movie viewing time is a different type of > variable and it should be in a different > 'table' (schema?) > > Something like > VIEW MOVIES (show TITLE, theater, time) > VIEW cinema (SHOW TITLES, time) > VIEW TIME (whats on today?) (show movie, theater) > etc > > something like that > > wonder if it would make things better > > Paola Di Maio > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Karl Dubost" <karl@w3.org> > To: <semantic-web@w3.org> > Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 4:19 AM > Subject: Schedule and Events Conflicts Management in RDF > > >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm preparing my program for the world film festival. My main tool is a >> loosy catalogue where I report movies and time in a calendar and then by >> hand I will select my movies depending on the conflicts and my >> constraints. >> >> Here my questions, because it's a fairly common problem with many >> possible applications. >> >> Consider a series of events: En, n is an integer >> >> En has a title >> has a start time >> has a duration >> has a date >> (has a category) >> has a location >> >> A "title" has 1 to 4 En (Basically the same movie can be played at >> different times during a week). >> >> So from a selection of certain number of titles, I want to have a >> schedule which optimize my viewing, basically to remove conflicts. >> >> It's a fairly common problem, because it's the case of >> - any festival of any kinds with multiple events at the same time >> - class schedule in a school >> - business meetings with many people >> >> that will be a selling case for the semantic Web definitely. It could be >> combined with external resources, etc. >> >> * algorithm >> >> To help the thinking process and the way I do to select manually >> 1. Choose all the movies I'm interested by >> 2. Put them in a calendar, conflict or not. >> 3. Take the first day and select the movies I want to see >> 4. Remove the selected one from the rest of the calendar, >> - except if on a day later the movie has no conflicts, >> in that case select, another movie from the first day. >> 5. Going to the next day and repeat the process. >> >> Usually it minimizes the conflicts and go quite fast. >> >> >> >> -- >> Karl Dubost - http://www.w3.org/People/karl/ >> W3C Conformance Manager >> *** Be Strict To Be Cool *** >> >> >> >> >> >
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