Semantic Web Travel Tools

I come to you bearing bailing-wire and toothpicks.

Motivation

The bane of my existence is doing things I know the computer could do for me...

Motivation (cont)

The bane of my existence is doing things I know the computer could do for me...and getting it wrong!

Why RDF?

• merging works for free!
  • foo.rdf + bar.rdf = baz.rdf

Some Tools

Live Demo

I come to you bearing bailing-wire and toothpicks.

iCal Interoperability

• evolution is case-sensitive, despite RFC. :-{

iCal Extensibility

X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Chicago

becomes...

@@ TODO: implement getting X- namespace URI from command line or PRODID: PILOTSTAT

RDB Interop

• dbview - RDB gateway. use case: get name, email from workshop registration database

SyncML

the holy-grail of RDF apps: sync/update