RE: Article from Wired News (fwd)

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> Yes, Libby and Dan, you are absolutely correct. I shouldn't have put an
> incomplete thought out there, I saw the article and pushed it out as I
> was leaving the office.

Please do so again - I didn't mean to jump on you - it's just something
that I was thinking about today.


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> programmatically). To complete my thought, the article is important
> because it demonstrates the pent up demand for sharing event data
> between calendars over the internet.


Very much so.

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>
> So why is this important? Once user's adopt open standard internet
> calendaring, they will be receptive to what has seemed like an abstract
> and distant concept, the semantic web. If I subscribe to a college
> football schedule into my calendar, I begin to want to browse around. I
> know that the Univ. of South Carolina is playing Temple Univ. at 7pm.
> But what is the University of South Carolina's mascot, who is their
> coach, who are the players, going into the football game you may want to
> know their current record of wins and loses, the football team is in
> what division, what other teams are in that division, what are the
> current standings in the division, the school is located where and
> offers what programs, who is the department head of the Computer Science
> and Engineering dept, how do I apply for admissions, etc. This becomes
> possible as we traverse up the layers from Data -> Information ->
> Knowledge. RDF is an enabling technology and in this regard this makes
> the work important.

lovely! more like this is exactly what we need.

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>
> PS - Who is going to volunteer to publish all relevant semantic
> web/Agent conference dates, to include CFP dates, workshop and tutorial
> dates, etc. in an iCal file that I can subscribe to ;-).
>

I've got an rss+events file:

http://swordfish.rdfweb.org/calendar/events/swevents.rss

maybe I could use one of Gary's stylesheets to generate icalendar.

Libby

Received on Wednesday, 25 September 2002 04:35:04 UTC