[okfn-labs] I think there's a better way

Fri May 17 15:10:54 UTC 2013

Sure, granting access, replicating, and syncing are the sexier modern
terms, but "a rose by any other name".

As far as representing or expressing data goes, I think HTML is too raw of
a form is that it often doesn't have a means for expressing or identifying
larger contexts and concepts. I would like to see a higher order
representation that can be easily rendered as PDF, HTML, spreadsheets, etc.
after dropping details that don't fit into a particular format. Especially
since linking will have to be dropped or adapted to fit the limitations of
the destination format.

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 4:52 AM, ☮ elf Pavlik ☮ <
perpetual-tripper at wwelves.org> wrote:

> Hi Donald,
>
> I don't find myself *sending blobs* exciting at all. Instead prefer
> *granting access*, *replicating*, *syncing* etc. Also I find stuff like pdf
> documents, odt, speadsheets etc. rather retro and look forward to express
> information for human eye in HTML as much as possible.
>
> When it comes to linking data, I find concept of Linked Data very
> attractive. Among any news I just heard about Google adding support for
> JSON-LD in gmail:
> https://developers.google.com/gmail/schemas/reference/formats/json-ld
>
> With technologies like WebID + access controll I see very interesting
> possibility of creating collective knowledge graphs with powerful linking!
> I hope soon to experiment more with http://viejs.org and similar
> technologies...
>
> Cheers :)
> ☮ elf Pavlik ☮
>
> Excerpts from Donald McLean's message of 2013-05-17 03:55:04 +0000:
> > Have you ever had a file/document you couldn't open because you didn't
> have
> > the right application? Or perhaps you could open it, but not in the
> > application you wanted to use, because that app didn't support that
> format?
> > Is there really so much difference between an email and a text document?
> > Between a to-do list and a contact?
> >
> > Why can't we link data together more seamlessly? My emails from my friend
> > Bob should be linked to his contact information, and the pictures of him,
> > and the calendar entries for what we have planned. If my company hires a
> > new guy who's going to work on a project with me, shouldn't I just be
> able
> > to send him everything relating to the project, all in one blob?
> >
> > These are just a few of the clues that lead me to conclude that the
> > file/document based approach to storing information on computers could be
> > replaced with something better. For several years I've been working on
> this
> > problem and I have a few ideas.
> >
> > Is this kind of work of any interest to this group?
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Donald
>
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