Re: DB vs FS based webapp architectures -- web 2.0 -- RSS, etc.

[Antenore Gatta]

I don't send to gnu herds because the information included are not accurate.

Another example is DOAp (Description Of a Project)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<Project rdf:about="#project" xmlns="http://usefulinc.com/ns/doap#";
xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/";
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#";>
  <name>GNU Herds</name>
  <created>2008-05-19</created>
  <shortdesc xml:lang="en">GNU Herds - Free Software Association</shortdesc>
  <description xml:lang="en">GNU Herds is a not-for-profit
true-democratic association which aims to encourage the professional
development of Free Software contributors. Job Site modules have been
developed.</description>
  <bug-database
rdf:resource="https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=gnuherds-app"; />
  <download-page rdf:resource="http://gnuherds.org/gnuherds-online.tar.gz"; />
  <homepage rdf:resource="http://www.gnuherds.org"; />
  <wiki rdf:resource="https://savannah.nongnu.org/cookbook/?group=gnuherds-app";
/>
  <old-homepage
rdf:resource="https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/gnuherds-app/"; />
  <maintainer>
    <foaf:Person>
      <foaf:name>Davi leal</foaf:name>
      <foaf:homepage rdf:resource="http://www.leals.com"; />
      
<foaf:mbox_sha1sum>79759b7c4b4679544d377405984b0a0777dc9f59</foaf:mbox_sha1sum>
    </foaf:Person>
  </maintainer>
<translator>
    <foaf:Person>
      <foaf:name>Antenore gatta</foaf:name>
      <foaf:homepage rdf:resource="http://antenore.blogspot.com"; />
      
<foaf:mbox_sha1sum>08445a31a78661b5c746feff39a9db6e4e2cc5cf</foaf:mbox_sha1sum>
    </foaf:Person>
  </translator>
<release>
    <Version>
      <name />
      <created />
      <revision />
    </Version>
  </release>
</Project>

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Antenore Gatta <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Davi Leal <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I will read all those very good links this weekend Antenore!
>>
>> Antenore Gatta wrote:
>>> it's even not just a way to use the web technologies with
>>> the goal of "enhance collaboration among users". Definitively not.
>>>
>>> Web 2.0 is in few words "Internet as a Platform" ,
>>> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2286997,00.asp
>>>
>>> I advice to everybody who is interested to read
>>>
>>> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html
>>> and this transcript
>>> http://talis-podcasts.s3.amazonaws.com/twt20080207_TimBL.html (Sir Tim
>>> Berners-Lee Talks with Talis about the Semantic Web).
>>> http://www.paulgraham.com/web20.html
>>
>>
>>
>>> We should really think which technologies we should implement, how and why.
>>
>> I will think about it the next months and I will expose my personal
>> opinion.
>
> To better give you an idea of what IMHO would be great to have, I give
> you two effective examples.
>
> OpenID: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID
>
> Quoting wikipedia...
>
> OpenID is a shared identity service, which allows Internet users to
> log on to many different web sites using a single digital identity,
> eliminating the need for a different user name and password for each
> site. OpenID is a decentralized, free and open standard that lets
> users control the amount of personal information they provide.
>
> The best would be to maintain our login system (to still keeping users
> on our DB) plus adding the OpnID system.
>
> An article of Remy Sharp
> http://remysharp.com/2007/12/21/how-to-integrate-openid-as-your-login-system/
> describe "How to integrate OpenID as your login system".
>
> DOAC, Description Of a Career:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Description_of_a_Career:
>
> Quoting Wikipedia...
>
> Description Of A Career (DOAC) is a semantic vocabulary created by
> Ramon A. Parada to describe professional capabilities of a worker. It
> has been designed to be compatible with the European curriculum
> (Europass) so those can be generated from a FOAF+DOAC file. It
> includes information about education, working experience,
> publications, spoken languages and other skills so it can be shared
> and processed by any application.
>
> So it use an rdf file to describe a career, it would be possible also
> to use this in conjunction with FOAF (Friend Of A Friend) to create a
> Europass file. The idea could be to implement an export functionality
> on GNU Herds to have DOAC and FOAF files for each profiles.
>
> These I guess are quite easy to implement and they should give us a
> bit of visibility and to gain ground for the future.
>