Category Archives: Semantic Web

Thoughts on Citability

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Over this week­end (9 – 11th April) I watched on Ustream the Cit­ab­il­ity CODEATHON. I already knew about Cit​ab​il​ity​.org from Silona Bone­wald (@Silona on twit­ter), but the codea­thon (from an spec­tator point of view) was very inter­est­ing as both dis­cus­sions and prototypes.

What is cit​ab​il​ity​.org?
Cit­ab­il­ity sup­ports mak­ing pub­lic gov­ern­ment doc­u­ments and data avail­able online and cit­able such that they can be eas­ily ref­er­enced for pub­lic debate, com­ment­ary and ana­lysis. This requires that archived ver­sions of doc­u­ments be stored and link­able so that changes can be eas­ily spot­ted and ref­er­ence links remain intact.
(from http://​dccodea​thon​.pbworks​.com)

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Ubiquity History

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I updated the code of the pre­vi­ous exper­i­ment (Shar­ing Ubi­quity Com­mands) such that when you open an URL that con­tains a shared Ubi­quity action, it won’t open Ubi­quity in pre­view mode, but dis­play a small icon.

This also allows to dis­play mul­tiple com­mands on one page, and by using Ubi­quity annota­tion data­base I could cre­ate this com­mand his­tory; such that when you revisit a page where you had already applied some ubi­quity com­mands you will see the icons for each, await­ing re-​applying. Con­tinue reading →

Sharing Ubiquity Commands

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I recently spoke with Aza Raskin at FOWA on Ubi­quity commands/​annotations shar­ing. I prom­ised I’ll pro­to­type some­thing, here it is…


(If the video is clipped, try it here)

When someone applies an Ubi­quity com­mand to a piece of con­tent that tells us what’s the type of that con­tent. The user is mak­ing an annota­tion which is not made for the annota­tion sake, but made for solv­ing a real need. That annota­tion if shared could be use­ful in vari­ous ways.

But first let’s look at all the data involved, con­sider that Alice is select­ing some text on a web page, invokes Ubi­quity and types ‘trans­late to japan­ese’. We have the folow­ing elements:

  1. user: anonym­ous or with an iden­tity (URI)
  2. web page address (URI)
  3. selec­ted content
  4. Ubi­quity com­mand (URI) with arguments

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