Palm Pilot Address Book, an RDF Schema

TODO

• finish marking up the stuff below; generate RDF. (generate DAML?)
• implement pilot DB ->RDF dump
• implement RDF -> pilot DB (hmm... subproperty stuff...)
• Think about how to put these things in web pages such that they can be automatically extracted (without losing context, of course!).
• implement synchronization between RDFDB and palmpilot (totally trivial ;-)
• do a deeper model; e.g.
  (firstName ?entry ?n) => (exists (?p Person) (givenName ?p ?n) (subject ?entry ?p)))
• compare with P3P data model

  (8 Aug msg)

• compare with vCard-in-RDF stuff 1999-01-14 (Released) 1999-01-22 (Modified).
• model to-do list, memo
• more interestingly, model the datebook , and design a way of keeping them consistent (i.e. if I write somebody's telephone number in the datebook, it should show up in the addressbook automatically... maybe).
• model other palmpilot storage layers? databases?

  @@type="addr"

  dbname="AddressDB"

Properties

• pilotAddressField: AddressEntry ->

  maxCardinality: 19

• name

  either family name (cf I18N guidelines@@link) or full-name; used for sort-by-name

  maxCardinality 1

• firstName

  i.e. given name (cf I18N guidelines@@link)

  maxCardinality 1

• company
• phone1: AddressEntry ->
• phone2
• phone3
• phone4
• phone5
• phone6
• phone7
• phone8

• Work

  RDF property names conventionally (@@cite) start with lower-case, but, following a discussion ~2pCT 2 Nov 2000 in #sw@@, this schema follows the man page Palm::Address - Handler for Palm AddressBook databases of 14/Aug/2000 in the p5-Palm stuff that I found near coldsync.

• Home
• Fax
• Other
• E-mail
• Main
• Pager
• Mobile
• address

  maxCardinality: 1

• city

  maxCardinality: 1

• state

  maxCardinality: 1

• zipCode
• country
• title
• custom1 (just arbitrary RDF properties; appblock gives labels, ala rdfs:label)
• custom2
• custom3
• custom4
• note

References: Open Palm Pilot Access Source Software

• coldsync 1.4.6 released 29 Sep 2000

  a re-implementation of the palm datalink protocol and database file format; includes a nifty perl5 API

• PalmSync looks cool (3Jan2001) syncs with mysql DB; written in Ruby.

  app index entry updated 2000-11-27 16:27:15 GMT

• pilot-link.0.9.3.tar.gz; newer (~Oct 2000) home
  • debian package libpisock3 0.9.3-3
  • Pilot UNIX Development Mailing List
  • Gnome pilot conduits
    Eskil Olsen
    Manish Vachharajani
    Mon, 08 Nov 1999 02:27:59 GMT
    
• SyncBuilder framework by Tilo Christ, work-in-progress May 2000
• ... open directory category

Orbit is an enabling technology for the gnome pilot conduits

• orbit-python
  Jason Tackaberry <tack@linux.com>
  work in progress August 28, 2000
  report (PDF 193kb) including an overview of CORBA, ORBit and GNOME

  hmm... CORBA types have URIs: IDL:CORBA/Boolean:1.0 ergo IDL:org.w3c.dom... ; connection to URIs for XML Schema datatype names? uri schemes