[Design] intro & interop

[Danny Ayers]

Great to see the project - good luck!

Intro:
I'm Danny, and I live the Garfagnana valley in northern Italy. For the past
few years I've been a freelance tech writer, but after finding it
increasingly frustrating not having time to work properly on Semantic Web
related stuff, I recently decided to take the plunge and have a go at a
little commercial project myself (link below).

Interop:
I won't be able to contribute directly to osaf for reasons of time and
Python incompetence, but my project is in a related space, and I would
certainly like to hear thoughts on & discuss the use of RDF - particularly
what vocabularies will be brought into play, and what kind of structuring
(contexts?) will be used. Then of course there are the messaging issues...
What I hope for my own project, and would expect as a likely aim of osaf
would be that the use of RDF brings interoperability in an extremely
transparent form (maybe even for ~free, as a side effect of internal
modelling).

Incidentally, I'm also curious to see how the group gets on with scoping &
focussing the project - there is so much that could be done in this arena
(especially once RDF is brought into the picture), keeping eyes on balls
isn't trivial.

Cheers,
Danny.

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Danny Ayers
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