Loom presentation (Re: [Gzz] Agora next thursday inbct seminar presentations)

[Tuukka Hastrup]

On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Tuomas Lukka wrote:
> > -Loom
> 
> I want to see it first ;) 
> 
> But would be very good.

So no-one's taken this yet? Loom would be Benja's area, but as he's not 
here, I could present Loom-related issues. I should consult with him, 
though. 

To see Loom in action, check out from CVS modules fenfire and 
fenfire-depends. Run "ant" in fenfire to compile and tests, and "ant run" 
to start Loom. 

Some example data from Benja's messages:
View 
http://ilrt.org/discovery/2001/06/schemas/ical-full/old/examples/images/1.gif

and compare it to loading 
http://ilrt.org/discovery/2001/06/schemas/ical-full/old/examples/1.rdf

and opening it in Loom using menu "File->Open...".

You can browse using keys uom.jl or using mouse and left and right 
buttons.

For some real-world data see, http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rss


What do we want to say about it? The audience expects something not 
technical at all? 

We can explain what RDF is, how it's open (W3C), and how many other
projects already use it (the Semantic Web). There are libraries we can use
and there will be onthology and inference code we can use. Other RDF users
can use our browser to edit their data, thus we can collaborate with them.
Other people plan to use RDF in hypertextual systems as well 
(bootstrap.org/open hypermedia system).

If we have a vision about unifying Loom, PP and xupdf, I'd say that's 
important as well. If the audience wonders about change from zzstructure, 
we should tell something about the effects of the change as well.


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