Re: web of data: how to include forms?

Hi Francois,
 
On Thursday, January 11, 2007, at 05:06PM, "François-Paul Servant" <francois-paul.servant@renault.com> wrote:
>Quoting Tim Berners-Lee [1]:
>"The Semantic Web [...] is about making links, so that a person or machine can
>explore the web of data."
>
>Beside "href" links, forms are an important feature of the hypertext web. How 
>does this translate to the web of data? How would you include "forms" in an RDF
>document? Is there a standard way to do it? An ontology describing forms?

Yepp, there is:

http://www.markbaker.ca/2003/05/RDF-Forms/

(make sure to follow the link to the older version, provides a bit more background).

Jan



>The purpose would to enable a Tabulator-like application to know when it has to
>display a form to the user.
>
>[Why do I ask? I'm prototyping a car repair application including diagnostic and
>technical documentation. It's supposed to be used by humans and programs.
>Conceptually, acces to the technical documentation looks very much like
>navigating a web of data. But forms cannot be avoided: for instance, the
>application may have to ask for technical characteristics of the car being
>repaired (in order to filter accordingly the list of documents to be returned) ;
>a user may have to enter results of diagnostic tests.]
>
>Best Regards
>
>François-Paul Servant
>
>[1] http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html
>
>
>
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Received on Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:12:46 UTC