Re: Generating content...

Hi Terry, Gang:

I've written some java code that does some of this translation.  It's
quite incomplete (only VEvents, properties, parameters) and seems to
crash sometimes.  It also only seems to work on iCal data from
GnomeCalendar.  

I've considered setting up a sourceforge page to work on a more
comprehensive RDF-generator project, but I haven't really thought enough
about it to know if that's a good idea or what the scope should be.

Maybe I should just set-up the page, post the source, and see what
happens?  Would any of you be interested in this if I set it up?  

-Michael


On Sat, 2001-11-03 at 15:36, Terry R. Payne wrote:
> People,
> 	Are there any tools that generate iCal rdf content?
> Has anyone modified an iCal client to generate content?
> 
> I've been thinking about the whole export issue, as a way of
> generating content for our Calendar Agent [1].  Right now, I've
> been using a text editor (which can be painfull to say the least,
> and error prone to boot!), but know that if we want to make this
> appealing to the man in the street, then thay have to be able to
> generate their own content (after all, who's going to be able to
> make use of the Three Rivers Film Festival markup if they don't
> live in Pittsburgh [2] ???)
> 
> One solution would simply be to serialize the graph and dump
> the rdf in a file.  However, what if I have a meeting with someone
> who is already represented by some rdf (e.g. through vCard or the
> foaf ontology).  If this is the case, then I want to represent
> them via their resource rather than through a copy.  Likewise
> for a location, or any other concept that one would later want
> to reason about.  I'm planning to add some hooks to our agent so
> that if information is acquired via a resource as opposed to being
> defined inline, then the URI will get stored in Outlook, so that
> when a new event is generated, I can have it refer to the reource
> URI...
> 
> Anyway, back to my initial point - has anyone tackled this issue
> with generating content from any calendar tool or editor?
> 
> 	Terry
> 
> [1] http://www.daml.ri.cmu.edu/Cal
> [2] http://www.daml.ri.cmu.edu/Cal/2001-ThreeRiversFestival.rdf
> 
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