[Wg-uma] Can UMA benefit from GoodRelations?

[Eve Maler]

Hey Mark-- Thanks for getting this idea into the mix!  Good Relations came up on the ProjectVRM email list (anyone know where its archive lives? I can't find it to link to it) a few months ago.  Some generally positive things were said about it, and the "Good Relations Annotator" was mentioned:

http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/tools/goodrelations-annotator/

You mention it as a possible vector for user wishlists (what the VRM crowd might call "personal RFPs").  That's an interesting possibility.  If this info is public, it could be made available at an unprotected resource.  If not, it could perhaps be UMA-protected...?

Here's another idea, just sort of riffing...

If businesses are already starting to use this to make their offerings accessible in a machine-readable way, that's a good sign that the barrier to deployment by "potential UMA requesters" is low.  And maybe if things like privacy policies of a business are considered useful "competitive information" to list (hey, if opening hours are listed, why not this?), maybe it's an opening for the P3P-based (or similar) ontologies as well.  And then it's perhaps a shorter leap to imagine our terms negotiation use cases actually working.

	Eve

On 2 Dec 2009, at 8:56 AM, Mark Wilcox wrote:

> Hi,
> I was listening to Jon Udell's latest Interviews with Innovators podcast where he talked with the team behind GoodRelations. http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/.
> 
> Short summary - GoodRelations provides a way to generate RDFa data that can be embedded in a webpage to make it easier to build smart searches. What occurred to me listening to the interview is that this might be a way to embed UMA policies since technically the RDFa could be generated by a consumer as well. 
> 
> For example - it could be possible for consumers to publish wishlists that described what they want (let's for sake of argument assume that sites generate the proper RDFa that can be copied/pasted) along with their UMA policy. Then there could be product specific search engines that could be crawling looking for these items using UMA mechanisms to facilitate communication and transactions. 
> 
> I know this is on the edge of the mythical grail of semantic web but it just feels like maybe there is a wheel or two here we can leverage to bootstrap on.
> 
> regards,
> Mark
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