Re: The upcoming user interface "Dizmo" and the Semantic Web, any Ideas?

On 24 February 2014 22:15, Urs Holzer <urs@andonyar.com> wrote:

> Hi together
>
> A company located in an office on the same floor I am working on is
> creating a
> new graphical touch/desktop/whatever user interface called Dizmo[1] and I
> intend to persuade them to incorporate support for the Semantic Web.
> Obviously, I
> also like to promote their Kickstarter campaign[2].
>
> Their user interface is optimized for touch and also various pointing
> devices.
> It runs HTML/JavaScript applications called Dizmos which can be freely
> placed
> and rotated on the screen (or table or fridge or whatever the display
> surface
> may be). It supports multitouch in a way that allows several users to work
> on
> the same display, only limited by the hardware's capabilities. Dizmos can
> be
> shared among different devices and they are synchronised in real time.
> Additionally, two dizmos can be connected in a way similar to a UNIX pipe.
>
> It would be nice if there were Dizmos presenting data from the Semantic
> Web,
> allowing one to interact with and modify this data.
>
> I would be interested in your ideas for use cases of Dizmo in context of
> the
> Semantic Web. Two ideas I have come up with:
> 1. I could imagine Dizmo being used at meetings: Each participant brings a
> tablet or laptop with a Dizmo cotaining his FOAF profile. At the beginning
> of
> the meeting, everyone would transfer his Dizmo onto the meeting table and
> move
> it onto a meeting minutes Dizmo in order to store who attended the meeting.
> The graph created by this procedure could then later be published on a web
> site.
> 2. A Dizmo could show the newest entry in an RSS feed and another Dizmo
> connected to it could show the FOAF profile of the respective author.
>
> Additionally, I'd like to collect some Ideas from a more technical point of
> view: The Dizmos are written in JavaScript and can of course make HTTP
> requests. So, an obvious way to go would be to run a HTTP service that
> stores
> RDF and allows the Dizmos to query it. This service could be enhanced with
> a
> reasoner. This would make it straight forward to use existing tools such as
> Sgvizler[3] inside a Dizmo.
> Another tempting idea would be to integrate RDF and a reasoner directly
> into
> the Dizmo core. Every Dizmo could be described in RDF. This would allow
> one to
> do reasoning about the Dizmos themselves and maybe even influence them this
> way.
>
> I also accept any further hints on how to get the developers of Dizmo
> interested in the Semantic Web. (mindblowing presentations, papers,
> existing
> applications that could appeal these guys.)
>
> I am greatful for any smart ideas so I can try to move Dizmo a bit towards
> the
> Semantic Web.
>

Great idea.

What you can do is allow users with a FOAF to have their own personal data
spaces, using the pim ontology

http://www.w3.org/ns/pim/space

So then they can save a bunch of stuff related to themselves or the various
applications they are using.  They can share it with other friends etc.  I
like the idea of a collection of RSS feeds to see what your contacts are up
to.  I sometimes use the following free software package on my desktop

http://tt-rss.org/redmine/projects/tt-rss/wiki

But it's not been webized yet ... perhaps a good exercise!


>
> Greetings
> Urs
>
> [1]: http://www.dizmo.com/
> [2]:
> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/114216817/dizmo-a-new-revolutionary-user-interface
> [3]: http://dev.data2000.no/sgvizler/
>
>