- From: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 17:47:31 +0000
- To: Libby Miller <Libby.Miller@bristol.ac.uk>
- CC: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>, Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>, Owen_Ambur <Owen_Ambur@ios.doi.gov>, Jim Harris <JIM.HARRIS@DOT.STATE.MN.US>, "marion.royal" <marion.royal@gsa.gov>, "sara.wagner" <sara.wagner@gsa.gov>, jordanc <jordanc@seta.com>, Motoole <Motoole@seta.com>, "lisa.carnahan" <lisa.carnahan@nist.gov>, www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Hi Libby, I'd like to support this initiative, and maybe one or more of my colleagues would like to join in too. Brian Libby Miller wrote: > > Hi, > Discussion at the RDF Interest group meeting in Boston last week made it > clear that there was a lot of interest in the use of RDF for > calendars. Several people have done work in this area already, including > Dan Connolly [1], Tim Berners-Lee [2], Charles CathieNevile [3] > and Dan Brickley (can't find the reference for this). I've done a quick > demo [4] and from discussions with danbri a scrappy writeup of some of > the issues [5]. SkiCal [6] is an interesting related project - I'm sure > that there are lots more (apologies if I've missed out anything). > > There was a great deal of interest in taking this disparate calendar > work forward, so this is a call for participation in an informal RDF > calendaring taskforce, with the minimal aim of producing a usable schema > for calendaring and demonstration applications of the uses of RDF for > calendars. > > To get things moving, I'd like to ask people for use cases for an RDF > calendar app - for example: > > * I've got a work calendar (password protected) and a Palm, and I'd like > to view the data in the same place. > > * I'm going to a week long meeting, and I want to combine the > schedule of the meeting with my personal calendar. > > * I'm trying to schedule a meeting with three people without > having complete information about their calendar. > > * I'm trying to divide time spent on a project between > various people > > * I'm trying to schedule cinema trips with my friends. > > * I'm trying to divide up my TV watching, TiVO-style. > > * I'm trying to book plane tickets for someone else. > > * I want to find out who was at the meeting which produced > the Dublin Core 15 elements, and what documents were produced a result > of that meeting. > > Let me know if you are interested, and we'll see if there is sufficient > discussion to warrant setting up an email list. > > cheers, > > Libby > > [1] http://www.w3.org/2000/08/palm56/datebook.html > [2] http://www.w3.org/2000/01/foo > [3] http://www.w3.org/2000/09/calendar/alpha1 > [4] http://swordfish.rdfweb.org/discovery/2001/02/calendar/ > [5] http://ilrt.org/discovery/2001/02/calendar/ > [6] http://www.metamatrix.se/presentationer/html/inet.htm
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