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

Cool!   I could imagine RDF being used for the metadata to describe the 
dizmos and how they connect and interact -- perhaps serialized as 
JSON-LD -- but I assume they've already decided on something for that.

David

On 02/24/2014 04:15 PM, Urs Holzer 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.
>
> 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/
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