- From: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 00:09:23 +0100
- To: mike amundsen <mamund@yahoo.com>
- Cc: Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>, Linked Data community <public-lod@w3.org>
On 20 November 2010 21:06, mike amundsen <mamund@yahoo.com> wrote: > FWIW, earlier this year I implemented a simple Hypermedia maze game: > http://amundsen.com/examples/mazes/2d/ > > The was done as part of an exercise to implement "bots" that can read > hypermedia and successfully navigate a 2D "perfect" maze. > > The current version supports a ;simple hypermedia XML format > (application/xml) and an XHTML format. If you view these links /w a > browser, you'll get a very basic UI. > > I'd be most interested in successfully implementing this same 2D maze > using RDF (any flavor including RDFa, n3, etc.). Looks cool! Maybe we can work out an ontology to handle both game scenarios. Did you ever think about importing data from openstreetmap to create real world mazes? > > The code is implemented in C# and I'm happy to share it for anyone > interested, too. I don't have any meaning docs at this point, but > would be happy to spend the time to make it more accessible to anyone > who wishes to implement clients against this server. > > mca > http://amundsen.com/blog/ > http://twitter.com@mamund > http://mamund.com/foaf.rdf#me > > > #RESTFest 2010 > http://rest-fest.googlecode.com > > > > > On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 14:13, Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk> wrote: >> On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 18:28:24 +0100 >> Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> 1. Would each 'location' be a document or a resource? Web of >>> Documents vs Web of Resources? >>> >>> 2. Could we use foaf:image and dcterms:desc for the game pages? >>> >>> 3. How would you model the link on each page? >> >> Sounds like a pretty awesome idea. I'd personally model it like this: >> >> <#node1> >> a game:Node ; >> foaf:name "Dark Cave" ; >> foaf:depiction <...> ; >> dcterms:description "..." . >> >> I'd say that game:Node is not disjoint with foaf:Document. That gives >> you flexibility - in some cases a node might be a page, and in other >> cases you might have several nodes described on the same page. >> >> Links to other places could be accomplished using: >> >> <#node1> >> game:north <#node2> ; >> game:south <otherdoc.xhtml#wasteland> ; >> game:east <http://example.net/game#node9> . >> >> The description itself would have more detailed descriptions of the >> directions like "To the south lies a desolate wasteland.". Directions >> you'd want would probably be eight compass, points plus "up", "down", >> "inside", "outside". >> >> Each node should probably also have co-ordinates (not in WGS84, but a >> made-up co-ordinate system), along the lines of: >> >> <#node1> >> game:latitude 123 ; >> game:longitude -45 . >> >> This would not be used for gameplay, but to aid authoring new nodes. >> You'd want to have your "north" triple link to a node that you could >> plausibly reach by going a short distance north. >> >>> I'm not sure how the rendering would work, but perhaps it's easy >>> enough in RDFa once we have a model. >> >> I'd be happy to mock-up an interface - perhaps tonight! >> >> -- >> Toby A Inkster >> <mailto:mail@tobyinkster.co.uk> >> <http://tobyinkster.co.uk> >> >> >> >
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