[permaculture] WebID, FOAF, The Semantic Web, Permaculture, Biointensive, Regenerative Agriculture, Ecological Land Use, Human Habitat and Community Building
From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>
To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [permaculture] WebID, FOAF, The Semantic Web, Permaculture, Biointensive, Regenerative Agriculture, Ecological Land Use, Human Habitat and Community Building
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 12:55:29 -0500
I just found out about WebID and FOAF to add to my interest in the
Semantic Web, wikis, db's and other assorted web apps and resource
development tools currently in use. Is anyone else interested in these
things? Here are other ideas:
My main interest is what I call EcoLandTech, i.e. permaculture,
biointensive regenerative agriculture, ecological land use and human
habitat and community building. For a long time I have been interested
in developing a digital information-sharing network for the global
community interested in these things. Part of this involves creating a
databse (MySQL/php), a wiki (using MediaWiki and Semantic MediaWiki,
blogs, mailing lists, webforums, bookmark sharing resources (Diigo),
ftp, an assortment of integrated Google resources and websites. People
creating digital media (images, video, audio, text, pdf, html, etc)
could export their work into any or all of these web-based, interactive,
publically accessable, resources to stimulate and develop an ongoing
long term collaboration of people from all over the world, empowering
them and stabilizing their lives and helping to build community.
The Semantic Web may play an important role in developing more complete
and enhanced access to and exchange of information across the web.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Semantic_Web
Semantic Web is a group of methods and technologies to allow machines to
understand the meaning - or "semantics" - of information on the World
Wide Web.[1] The term was coined by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
director Tim Berners-Lee.[2] He defines the Semantic Web as “a web of
data that can be processed directly and indirectly by machines.”
http://semanticweb.org/wiki/Main_Page
The Semantic Web is the extension of the World Wide Web that enables
people to share content beyond the boundaries of applications and
websites. It has been described in rather different ways: as a utopic
vision, as a web of data, or merely as a natural paradigm shift in our
daily use of the Web. Most of all, the Semantic Web has inspired and
engaged many people to create innovative semantic technologies and
applications. semanticweb.org is the common platform for this community.
You can extend semanticweb.org. Make sure that your favourite semantic
tool, event, or ontology is here!
http://semanticweb.org/wiki/Ontology
Ontologies are considered one of the pillars of the Semantic Web,
although they do not have a universally accepted definition. A (Semantic
Web) vocabulary can be considered as a special form of (usually
light-weight) ontology, or sometimes also merely as a collection of URIs
with an (usually informally) described meaning.
Ontologies on semanticweb.org are usually assumed to be accompanied by
some document in a formal ontology language, though some ontologies do
not use standardised formats for that purpose. A list of documents that
are considered ontologies in this wiki is given below.
FaceBook is for transient information; what is needed is a social
network with a highly accessable, interactive, archive of all types of
digital information.
Here's what I found out about FOAF and WebID:
FOAF http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/
This specification describes the FOAF language, defined as a dictionary
of named properties and classes using W3C's RDF technology.
FOAF is a project devoted to linking people and information using the
Web. Regardless of whether information is in people's heads, in physical
or digital documents, or in the form of factual data, it can be linked.
FOAF integrates three kinds of network: social networks of human
collaboration, friendship and association; representational networks
that describe a simplified view of a cartoon universe in factual terms,
and information networks that use Web-based linking to share
independently published descriptions of this inter-connected world. FOAF
does not compete with socially-oriented Web sites; rather it provides an
approach in which different sites can tell different parts of the larger
story, and by which users can retain some control over their information
in a non-proprietary format.
WebID http://esw.w3.org/WebID
What is a WebID?
A WebID is a way to uniquely identify a person or other entity, such as
a company, an organization, a web site, or other resource. The term
"WebID" was coined by Dan Brickley and Tim Berners-Lee in 2000.
http://getwebid.org/spec/drafts/ED-webid-20100809/index.html
WebID 1.0
Web Identification and Discovery
Social networking, identity and privacy have been at the center of how
we interact with the Web in the last decade. The explosion of social
networking sites has brought the world closer together as well as
created new points of pain regarding ease of use and the Web.
Remembering login details, passwords, and sharing private information
across the many websites and social groups that we are a part of has
become more difficult and complicated than necessary. The Social Web is
designed to ensure that control of identity and privacy settings is
always simple and under one's control. WebID is a key enabler of the
Social Web. This specification outlines a simple universal
identification mechanism that is distributed, openly extensible,
improves privacy, security and control over how one can identify
themselves and control access to their information on the Web.
[permaculture] WebID, FOAF, The Semantic Web, Permaculture, Biointensive, Regenerative Agriculture, Ecological Land Use, Human Habitat and Community Building,
Lawrence F. London, Jr., 01/07/2011