Comments on: Public Skype RDF presence service http://danbri.org/words/2008/02/09/272 the web, the world, us, you and them Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:48:30 +0000 hourly 1 By: Geotagging, Photography and the Semantic Web | Microstock News http://danbri.org/words/2008/02/09/272/comment-page-1#comment-16547 Geotagging, Photography and the Semantic Web | Microstock News Tue, 28 Apr 2009 02:01:14 +0000 http://danbri.org/words/2008/02/09/272#comment-16547 [...] I’m an image buyer, I’m writing a story on gold mining in Australia, I need a photo to illustrate my story. Today I would need to go to several stock photography agencies and enter my search terms, in some cases the terms are ambiguous "mine, a weapon" or "mine, underground space" and gold,"a colour" or "a precious metal". If I had an internet full of images suitably tagged with RDF data then I would be able to find every image that was licensed for use as stock or free to use, taken in Australia, larger than the required number of pixels I need for my cover story and matching the keywords gold mine. I could plot that information against the date the photo was taken, the time of day (e.g. night time), or the geographic location. All of this would afford me more fine control to find just the photo I wanted instead of using clumsy hit-and-miss keywords. Doing the same search today would mean stringing together a query like "mine, Australia, gold, historical, daytime" and preying. Oh, and I need that image urgently! right now skype are currently testing their online presence rdf data, mix that in and I can show only the images with authors who are online now, so I can pick up the phone and call them, it will also get me their number so I don’t have to go and search for it. [...] [...] I’m an image buyer, I’m writing a story on gold mining in Australia, I need a photo to illustrate my story. Today I would need to go to several stock photography agencies and enter my search terms, in some cases the terms are ambiguous "mine, a weapon" or "mine, underground space" and gold,"a colour" or "a precious metal". If I had an internet full of images suitably tagged with RDF data then I would be able to find every image that was licensed for use as stock or free to use, taken in Australia, larger than the required number of pixels I need for my cover story and matching the keywords gold mine. I could plot that information against the date the photo was taken, the time of day (e.g. night time), or the geographic location. All of this would afford me more fine control to find just the photo I wanted instead of using clumsy hit-and-miss keywords. Doing the same search today would mean stringing together a query like "mine, Australia, gold, historical, daytime" and preying. Oh, and I need that image urgently! right now skype are currently testing their online presence rdf data, mix that in and I can show only the images with authors who are online now, so I can pick up the phone and call them, it will also get me their number so I don’t have to go and search for it. [...]

]]> By: http://bendiken.livejournal.com/ http://danbri.org/words/2008/02/09/272/comment-page-1#comment-13630 http://bendiken.livejournal.com/ Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:55:05 +0000 http://danbri.org/words/2008/02/09/272#comment-13630 I've created a module for Drupal that will pull in this information for Drupal user accounts using the RDF API module & the ARC2 library: http://drupal.org/project/skype_status I’ve created a module for Drupal that will pull in this information for Drupal user accounts using the RDF API module & the ARC2 library:

http://drupal.org/project/skype_status

]]> By: http://areggiori.livejournal.com/ http://danbri.org/words/2008/02/09/272/comment-page-1#comment-13590 http://areggiori.livejournal.com/ Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:41:45 +0000 http://danbri.org/words/2008/02/09/272#comment-13590 Hi Dan, thanks for blogging about this; I worked on a patch long time ago about the rdf:about problem, as well as the namespace one. Unfortunately we could not make it on time for the last release we delivered to them (more than 2 years ago I recon); hopefully we will be able to get some changes sneaking in at some stage. I remember that the quickest fix for the URI would be to have rdf:about="" and let the parser expand that. Hi Dan, thanks for blogging about this; I worked on a patch long time ago about the rdf:about problem, as well as the namespace one. Unfortunately we could not make it on time for the last release we delivered to them (more than 2 years ago I recon); hopefully we will be able to get some changes sneaking in at some stage. I remember that the quickest fix for the URI would be to have rdf:about=”" and let the parser expand that.

]]> By: Valentin http://danbri.org/words/2008/02/09/272/comment-page-1#comment-13587 Valentin Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:18:50 +0000 http://danbri.org/words/2008/02/09/272#comment-13587 The option to have your skype status shown on a website (or in emails) was there for quite a while now, you can read more about it here http://www.skype.com/share/buttons/status.html. But its great to be able to use the data directly in arbitrary programs .. thanks for posting this. The option to have your skype status shown on a website (or in emails) was there for quite a while now, you can read more about it here http://www.skype.com/share/buttons/status.html. But its great to be able to use the data directly in arbitrary programs .. thanks for posting this.

]]> By: Morten Høybye Frederiksen http://danbri.org/words/2008/02/09/272/comment-page-1#comment-13583 Morten Høybye Frederiksen Sun, 10 Feb 2008 10:12:09 +0000 http://danbri.org/words/2008/02/09/272#comment-13583 There's also the problem with the status information being stated about "urn:skype:skype.com:skypeweb/1.1"... Perhaps it would be possible to have them fix that and add a skypeId at the same time? BTW: Where you say "www.flickr.com" i think you mean "www.skype.com". There’s also the problem with the status information being stated about “urn:skype:skype.com:skypeweb/1.1″…

Perhaps it would be possible to have them fix that and add a skypeId at the same time?

BTW: Where you say “www.flickr.com” i think you mean “www.skype.com”.

]]> By: http://bendiken.livejournal.com/ http://danbri.org/words/2008/02/09/272/comment-page-1#comment-13577 http://bendiken.livejournal.com/ Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:04:58 +0000 http://danbri.org/words/2008/02/09/272#comment-13577 I was experimenting with this, and would like to add in the comment that this service returns an "Unknown" status unless you've enabled "Allow my status to be shown on the web" in the Skype privacy options - in case anyone was wondering. I was experimenting with this, and would like to add in the comment that this service returns an “Unknown” status unless you’ve enabled “Allow my status to be shown on the web” in the Skype privacy options – in case anyone was wondering.

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