Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and Information in unLike Environments
Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and Information in unLike Environments
Tim Berners-Lee is all about
making the web smarter and this mspace and
other projects like SIMILE are changing the way we leverage data in smarter
ways keep up the good work.
SIMILE is a joint project conducted by the W3C, HP, MIT Libraries, and MIT
CSAIL. SIMILE seeks to enhance inter-operability among digital assets, schemata/vocabularies/ontologies,
metadata, and services. A key challenge is that the collections which must
inter-operate are often distributed across individual, community, and institutional
stores. We seek to be able to provide end-user services by drawing upon the
assets, schemata/vocabularies/ontologies, and metadata held in such stores.
SIMILE will leverage and
extend DSpace, enhancing its support for arbitrary schemata and metadata,
primarily though the application of RDF and semantic
web techniques. The project also aims to implement a digital asset dissemination
architecture based upon web standards. The dissemination architecture will
provide a mechanism to add useful "views" to a particular digital
artifact (i.e. asset, schema, or metadata instance), and bind those views to
consuming services.
Great concept we need more development to end this Flat World "windows" interface.
I wrote this a little while ago and wanted to share
"Content is king and the lackadaisical development of a cohesive environment in the past has lead the 3D industry into a first person shooter rat maze mentality. DOOM was huge so lets flog this horse till it dies, well DOOM 3, Unreal, Halo and many others show that money is still in shoot-um up, yawn, video games. The industry is sooooooo sort sighted sometimes.
The realities was in 1995 we were at the precipices of an unbelievable future where children would be taught in interactive 3D simulations. Imagine sitting in the boat as Washington crosses the Delaware, a lot more exciting than your history teacher reading from his text book supplement. In a future where augmented displays would feed us bus schedules and other mundane day to day information in an overlay of our vision. Living in a time where doctors would perform remote surgeries on patients in rural communities or half way across the world. A tomorrow that existed in interactive 3D shared space where our visual, auditory and even haptic senses would span the globe and move us beyond our physical locality.
Many of these advancements are coming but the corporate CFO has no concept of what this truly means to his bottom line. He is still in gee whiz from his latest reporting tools with pie charts that update in real time. Wow can anyone say DATABASE. I truly believe that until they can get some sort of real true 3D experience beyond the video game corporate America will be more than happy to stick to 3D bar charts in Excel and Everquest as the extent of there 3D experiences.
So to that end I say we strike at the only demographic that will guarantee to get them to open the pocket book, their children. Start with an educational environment or application. Make it interesting and fun while incorporating functionalities that utilize 3D, hell even 4D space. Lets bring these flat worlder's into true space (not to confused with Caligari) and make the realities of tomorrow not only virtual but visceral."
Check out the http://www.digitaluniverse.net/ and a company called Many One.
Having 5 years of collage and no degree I would say the most important thing is that you get the degree. John Belushi in Animal house I was not just too many Majors--alas impetuous youth I still regret no getting it maybe I'll go back, na to much money to be made.
I am now a Network Engineer for an Airline and have to say it is all about Networking and I don't mean computers. Having my own company I went to work for this airline for the Y2k bonanza and then stayed on. My advice is to you is to be happy and get some experience in what you want to do. Another option is that you could start your own company and then no one will care where the boss man went to school. I think a guy named Bill dropped out.
Infrastructure will of course have to be improved and fueling and maintenance will create a whole new segment of my industry. {Did I mention I work for an Airline, well at least that's one of things we do.} With this economy we could use the jobs! As for bad luck it will be with us in the skies or on the ground but realistically it comes down to the statistical acceptability of losses. Currently it is much safer to fly than to drive. Add more traffic in the airways and those numbers move around a bit. Hell we have an expectable amount of rat dropping in our food per FDA regulation so when the FAA says x number of deaths is an expectable variable they give the blessing. Your flock of birds comment got me remembering my days as a VR consultant check out Flock of Birds
Why the computers do the flying of course. No more irrational humans behind the wheel in the major arteries of the SkyWay's and in uninhabited or at least less inhabited airways you can fly off road. You thought dune buggies at the coast was a kick. Wait till you pull a G. Of course you walk away from a lot less mistakes than in a dune buggy. Darwin at work, I'll let the computers do flying while I get some work done.
To make personal air cars a reality it comes down to improving the air traffic control system. We need to implement a computerized system that sets aside air corridors for personal and commercial traffic. These sky highways are possible if we implement technologies like Voxel based HUD's for Air traffic controllers. You can see a three dimensional image of an air craft. Anyone see a little movie called Star Wars... remember the holographic projection of the Death Star? They are testing a system that uses a laser and a spinning helix to land air craft down in San Diego so mix in a super computer or 12 and these holographic displays to give an x, y and z axis to crowded airways and mix in a really good air bag and you have yourself a super highway in the sky. Oh now you need a good skycar check out http://www.moller.com/.
Work and play don't mix in these tumultuous job markets keep your stuff off the mans equipment. Under a dollar a GIG this is unreal. I remember an argument in 1981 about upgrading to a one megabyte hard drive from the 750 k model for a little over $100. WOW talk about a drop in the price.
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Tim Berners-Lee is all about making the web smarter and this mspace and other projects like SIMILE are changing the way we leverage data in smarter ways keep up the good work.
SIMILE is a joint project conducted by the W3C, HP, MIT Libraries, and MIT CSAIL. SIMILE seeks to enhance inter-operability among digital assets, schemata/vocabularies/ontologies, metadata, and services. A key challenge is that the collections which must inter-operate are often distributed across individual, community, and institutional stores. We seek to be able to provide end-user services by drawing upon the assets, schemata/vocabularies/ontologies, and metadata held in such stores.
SIMILE will leverage and extend DSpace, enhancing its support for arbitrary schemata and metadata, primarily though the application of RDF and semantic web techniques. The project also aims to implement a digital asset dissemination architecture based upon web standards. The dissemination architecture will provide a mechanism to add useful "views" to a particular digital artifact (i.e. asset, schema, or metadata instance), and bind those views to consuming services.
Great concept we need more development to end this Flat World "windows" interface. I wrote this a little while ago and wanted to share "Content is king and the lackadaisical development of a cohesive environment in the past has lead the 3D industry into a first person shooter rat maze mentality. DOOM was huge so lets flog this horse till it dies, well DOOM 3, Unreal, Halo and many others show that money is still in shoot-um up, yawn, video games. The industry is sooooooo sort sighted sometimes. The realities was in 1995 we were at the precipices of an unbelievable future where children would be taught in interactive 3D simulations. Imagine sitting in the boat as Washington crosses the Delaware, a lot more exciting than your history teacher reading from his text book supplement. In a future where augmented displays would feed us bus schedules and other mundane day to day information in an overlay of our vision. Living in a time where doctors would perform remote surgeries on patients in rural communities or half way across the world. A tomorrow that existed in interactive 3D shared space where our visual, auditory and even haptic senses would span the globe and move us beyond our physical locality. Many of these advancements are coming but the corporate CFO has no concept of what this truly means to his bottom line. He is still in gee whiz from his latest reporting tools with pie charts that update in real time. Wow can anyone say DATABASE. I truly believe that until they can get some sort of real true 3D experience beyond the video game corporate America will be more than happy to stick to 3D bar charts in Excel and Everquest as the extent of there 3D experiences. So to that end I say we strike at the only demographic that will guarantee to get them to open the pocket book, their children. Start with an educational environment or application. Make it interesting and fun while incorporating functionalities that utilize 3D, hell even 4D space. Lets bring these flat worlder's into true space (not to confused with Caligari) and make the realities of tomorrow not only virtual but visceral." Check out the http://www.digitaluniverse.net/ and a company called Many One.
Having 5 years of collage and no degree I would say the most important thing is that you get the degree. John Belushi in Animal house I was not just too many Majors--alas impetuous youth I still regret no getting it maybe I'll go back, na to much money to be made. I am now a Network Engineer for an Airline and have to say it is all about Networking and I don't mean computers. Having my own company I went to work for this airline for the Y2k bonanza and then stayed on. My advice is to you is to be happy and get some experience in what you want to do. Another option is that you could start your own company and then no one will care where the boss man went to school. I think a guy named Bill dropped out.
Another victim falls dead from what is now the 2nd largest killer of web sites. /.death
Even with 65Tflops it still takes 3 min to apply my desktop settings.
Infrastructure will of course have to be improved and fueling and maintenance will create a whole new segment of my industry. {Did I mention I work for an Airline, well at least that's one of things we do.} With this economy we could use the jobs! As for bad luck it will be with us in the skies or on the ground but realistically it comes down to the statistical acceptability of losses. Currently it is much safer to fly than to drive. Add more traffic in the airways and those numbers move around a bit. Hell we have an expectable amount of rat dropping in our food per FDA regulation so when the FAA says x number of deaths is an expectable variable they give the blessing. Your flock of birds comment got me remembering my days as a VR consultant check out Flock of Birds
Why the computers do the flying of course. No more irrational humans behind the wheel in the major arteries of the SkyWay's and in uninhabited or at least less inhabited airways you can fly off road. You thought dune buggies at the coast was a kick. Wait till you pull a G. Of course you walk away from a lot less mistakes than in a dune buggy. Darwin at work, I'll let the computers do flying while I get some work done.
Here is a link about Soltan's "volumetric" display--- http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1511/is _n12_v16/ai_17863352
To make personal air cars a reality it comes down to improving the air traffic control system. We need to implement a computerized system that sets aside air corridors for personal and commercial traffic. These sky highways are possible if we implement technologies like Voxel based HUD's for Air traffic controllers. You can see a three dimensional image of an air craft. Anyone see a little movie called Star Wars... remember the holographic projection of the Death Star? They are testing a system that uses a laser and a spinning helix to land air craft down in San Diego so mix in a super computer or 12 and these holographic displays to give an x, y and z axis to crowded airways and mix in a really good air bag and you have yourself a super highway in the sky. Oh now you need a good skycar check out http://www.moller.com/.
Work and play don't mix in these tumultuous job markets keep your stuff off the mans equipment. Under a dollar a GIG this is unreal. I remember an argument in 1981 about upgrading to a one megabyte hard drive from the 750 k model for a little over $100. WOW talk about a drop in the price.