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  • From: Bear Kaufmann <bear@ursine-design.com>
  • To: pcplantdb <pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] PIW Graphing the Symantic Web
  • Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:03:12 -0700

Hi Rich,

Sorry to get back late on this one. But yes, good stuff. This is why I had interest in RDF and talked about it (way?) back.
Imagine if we could take a plant name, and check it against a list of nurseries, or seed sources. They could respond with an "In Stock", "Not Found/Carried", etc. When a plant is looked at, we can show who carries it. To save bandwidth one could catch the requests, and store a triplet from the plant object to the nursery connected by the current state. Sort the nursery listing by the lat/long radius from user.
You could do queries against photo-archives, USDA plants, etc, and show those extra sources. One might need to build a layer between some, who might just have a CSV list of plants in their database that just gets run through. Ideally at some point, all of these things could talk to each other, with one standard.

Hopefully the above was understandable.

Also, re: Lawrence's last post. The folks at Planetwork are involved in developing an i-name system, which would provide authentication via one name/password to services that use it (ie hopefully all at some point. :-) Not unlike MS Passport on their sites. Anyway, there was a lot of talk around trust, and a trust network, having brokers that handle the data, and only release it to those with high levels of trust. Your full name might be public, address for friends/people you exchanged business cards with, etc. So yes, there is a lot of work going on in this arena. See http://2idi.com/index.php

Anyway, I'll be out of town for a while, have a good one everyone.

Cheers,
Bear





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