Author: leobard

crschmidt hinted me back to my old dreams. tagging photos, appointments and other events with gps location.

The weapon of choice seems to be bluelogger, a gps receiver that talks through bluetooth.

I have commercial experience with these kind of stuff from my previous portacon project. So handling emea and maps and stuff is bad but possible 🙂

what came to my mind is a way to match timelines, from icals to your photos to your “recently heard itunes song” to the GPS path walked.

At impact business computing we had a patent pending algorithm to track breaks in a gps trail, tp detect stops. Perhaps this might be useful again 🙂

so lets see what crschmidt does next…

I switched.

Yesterday Ingrid went to get our new baby, a brand new iBook G4. We called it “eden” and I am moving many things on it. Apple is great, I waited to have one for years. I am really happy now. This is it, and I instantous fell in deep admiration to Apple.

The real nice thing is, Eclipse runs slow but smooth and I can hack www.gnowsis.org with the thing. Simple thing, install eclipse, checkout gnowsis from cvs, everything works. cool, on Linux this was hell of a thing to do. ( the java install alone, argh).

On the screen you see part of our “in development” RDF-Gui builder tools. I am an old Delphi hacker, so I need Gui tools simple as delphi to work with RDF. We are starting with a very low tech and neat framework. On the “screenshot” above you see the framework running. As usually, I edit the foaf.rdfs 🙂

to all who never believed it, I did not believe it, too. And to those who do not believe, it is not a complete switch, my infrastructure is now:

• Apple iBook G4 “Eden”
• Work Notebook Acer Travelmate WinXp
• Linux Server “Franse.leobard.net”
• Home Notebook HP “Bundeslade”

when humans and chatbots join, things like julie’s web interface may be the result.

first eaon pointed me to it, now crschmidt himself and it is great:

http://crschmidt.net/semweb/rdfbot/online_users.cgi?channel=foaf&image=1

See the pictures of people in a chat room.
Based on foaf files, foaf:nick and foaf:img and the distributed web of foaf files

read more in crschmidt’s blog
here’s an excerpt:

lorebot, an IRC based bot who collects information from IRC services on who is online in different channels. Once this information is collected, it displays a “who’s online” information page, with links to further information provided by julie, a Redland bot who collects data from FOAF files. The lorebot page has pretty much all the documentation you’d need: if you’re interested in seeing how it works, you can stop by irc.freenode.net, #swig for a demonstration. For a version of what kind of data this spits out, see the: #swig online_users page.

the deperate need for a “I need a rdf browser, quick!” made me to install isavic, brownsauce and ifered and ideagraph in 30 minuntes and try them out on a big SKOS file. libby was on #swig and pointed me to some apps.

results:

brownsauce
is running good, but is not end-user friendly. It should put out a message in system.out saying “now open your browser to localhost:8080/brownsauce” and then perfect.

it is a rdf browser that uses a small web server (looks like jetty to me) and visualises rdf. great click-feel. fast.

isaviz
a graphical rdf tool. editing, …
requires some apis to install, but no big deal.
was doomed by my skos file, the visualisation was just a big blob of nodes. took 30sec to do it. The result was not really browsable

infered
graphical rdf editor from intellidimension.com. quite ok, but no real rdf browsing. only basic editing, no end user thing. but the right direction, easy installable.

rdfgravity
quite cool tool. can propose its usage. download it. uses aqua skin, like we do in gnowsis installer. quite cool look and feel. better than any of the above.
loading my skos, it completely draw pandemonia:

hm, so perhaps it is true what i said about the general rdf browser is not possible.

cheers Leo

btw:
logged on swig