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

Well, I bought in!

Meanwhile I thought this had been done - zaplets and whatever the
competitor was called.

Also would this be a place to use WebID.
I guess - showing ignorance of the architecture - exposing to others a
verified ID over federated secure connections and just that which it is
desired to share according to profile matching.

Adam


On 24 February 2014 23:20, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 24 February 2014 22:15, Urs Holzer <urs@andonyar.com> wrote:
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>> Hi together
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>> 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].
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>> 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.
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>> It would be nice if there were Dizmos presenting data from the Semantic
>> Web,
>> allowing one to interact with and modify this data.
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>> 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.
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> Great idea.
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> What you can do is allow users with a FOAF to have their own personal data
> spaces, using the pim ontology
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> http://www.w3.org/ns/pim/space
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> 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
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> http://tt-rss.org/redmine/projects/tt-rss/wiki
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> But it's not been webized yet ... perhaps a good exercise!
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>> Greetings
>> Urs
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>> [1]: http://www.dizmo.com/
>> [2]:
>> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/114216817/dizmo-a-new-revolutionary-user-interface
>> [3]: http://dev.data2000.no/sgvizler/
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