Re: Encapsulating Behaviour with RDF/OWL Ontologies [was: The Object Oriented Web]

Thanks James, your project is very interesting but I think it's not  
what I've in mind.

I'm thinking about a kind of "Web of Objects" but since my objects are  
decentralized this is quite different from the Object Oriented  
Programming. My project is not about implementation but protocol, the  
"real" objects stay in various systems and they just have to use a  
common protocol in order to communicate with each other.

I don't know much yet about this protocol, I could just say it would  
have to normalize a certain number of fundamental operations like  
discovering the relationship between objects (thanks to backlinks),  
with different answers depending on the context or the person who make  
the query. The protocol will also determine constraints, an object  
would be able to "decide" at any time whether or not it accepts a  
relationship with another object. But I wouldn't want to go too far in  
the details, I am afraid to be confused, my thinking is currently only  
about uses, I just see needs, applications and tools...

You may think I am crazy but I try to forget all I know about the web  
in order to reinvent it. I am now reconsidering the web browsers and I  
think there are still some very interesting things to create on this  
side. I believe we must leave the paradigm of the web page to go to  
interfaces providing direct access to objects through the three  
pillars that make up our world: 1) The consciousness that is the world  
of thoughts, ideas, stories or concepts giving rise to hierarchical  
navigations (menus, tabs, categories), folksonomic (tagging) or simply  
hypertextual (the old school links). 2) The time (social feeds, blogs,  
newsletters). 3) The space (Google Maps, Second Life, etc.). I think  
browsers should deal by themselves with these three major navigation  
modes, with built-in features replacing the dirty navigation  
interfaces we can hack with HTML, CSS or JavaScript. But that is  
another story.

Cheers,

Manuel Vila
http://claimid.com/mvila

Le 7 nov. 07 à 16:01, James Leigh a écrit :

>
> Hi Manuel,
>
> Taking a leap here, but are you suggesting that we should looking ways
> to encapsulate methods along with our semantic data?
>
>  If so, I would like to point out that at OpenRDF.org the project Elmo
> allows behaviours (methods) to be associated with RDF resources. These
> are packaged together with the ontology and Java interfaces into a  
> jar.
> Currently only Java methods and only on Sesame repositories are
> supported, but more will be supported in the future.
>
>  Is this like the idea you had in mind?
>
> Cheers,
> James
>
>

Received on Friday, 9 November 2007 11:19:08 UTC