Oreste
Signore, <oreste@w3.org>
Responsabile Ufficio Italiano W3C
Area della Ricerca CNR
via Moruzzi, 1
56124 Pisa
Viaggio Telecom
Pisa, 19-21 maggio 2006
Presentazione: http://www.w3c.it/talks/2006/viaggioTelecom2006/
Sommario: http://www.w3c.it/papers/viaggioTelecom2006.pdf
“To lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing protocols and guidelines that ensure long-term growth for the Web”
1945: As We May Think (Atlantic Monthly)
A memex is a device in which an individual stores his books, records and communications and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.
The memex "affords an immediate step, however, to associative indexing, the basic idea of which is a provision whereby any item may be caused at will to select immediately and automatically another. This is the essential feature of the memex. The process of tying two items together is the important thing."
Un processo di accrescimento, non la soluzione lineare di una serie di problemi ben definiti.
Alcuni riferimenti:
I genitori di Tim Berners-Lee avevano una copia del libro di epoca Vittoriana. Tim ne aveva ricevuto un' altra copia in regalo dal suo padrino.
Staying in a House without Staff
It is for the guest to be as unobtrusively helpful to host and hostess. The simplest thing is to ask exactly how you may do this and also remember that there are times when even the most saught-after guest may get in the way of the routine domestic chores - it is often easier, for example, to opt for breakfast in bed while the hostess copes with the early morning routine.
In any household (even that of a millionaire), the thoughtful guest does not make free with the establishment's drinks, cigarettes, postal and telephone facilities, nor does he or she demand numerous additional services from the staff.
Nel 1989 Tim Berners-Lee propose il World Wide Web
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“ The people who built the Internet and Web have
a real appreciation of the value of
individuals and the value of systems in which
individuals play their role, with both a firm sense of
their own identity and a firm sense of some common
good.
[…]
I was very lucky, in working at CERN, to be in an
environment that Unitarian Universalists and physicists
would equally appreciate: one of mutual
respect, and of building something very great
through collective effort that was well beyond
the means of any one person - without a huge
bureaucratic regime.
[…]
The system produced a weird and wonderful machine,
which needed care to maintain, but could take advantage
of the ingenuity, inspiration, and
intuition of individuals in a special way.
That, from the start, has been my goal for the
World Wide Web. ”
(Tim Berners-Lee - Weaving the Web, p. 208-209)
"The entertainment system was belting out the Beatles "We Can Work It Out" when the phone rang. When Pete answered, his phone turned the sound down by sending a message to all other local devices that had a volume control. His sister, Lucy, was on the line from the doctor's office: "Mom needs to see a specialist and then has to have a series of physical therapy sessions. Biweekly or something. I'm going to have my agent set up the appointments." Pete immediately agreed to share the chauffeuring.
At the doctor’s office, Lucy instructed her Semantic Web agent through her handheld Web browser. The agent promptly retrieved information about ...”
(From: The Semantic Web, by Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila, Scientific American, May 2001)
Il concetto fondamentale:
Una risorsa è sempre individuata da un Universal Resource Identifier (URI), e può essere:
La persona identificata dal Codice Fiscale SGNRST99A99X111Y has Name Oreste Signore, Email oreste@w3.org, e Affiliation C.N.R.. La risorsa http://www.w3c.it/Oreste/DocX has Author questa persona.
L'oggetto
(vedi http://www.w3c.it/talks/2005/cidoc2005/
per ulteriori dettagli)
La sua rappresentazione basata su una ontologia
formale
(ringrazio Giovanni Tummarello):
Per le macchine: milioni di risorse collegate ...
... nessuna informazione sul tipo di risorse e di relazioni
Per le macchine: milioni di risorse collegate ...
... con informazioni sul tipo di risorse e di relazioni
RDF : un linguaggio per descrivere il significato delle risorse
È possibile ricercare le risorse in base alle loro proprietà
Web Ontology Language (OWL) è la W3C Recommendation
Molte delle tecnologie necessarie sono già disponibili
La conoscenza può essere espressa ed esportata utilizzando un formalismo interoperabile
“The Web is more a social creation than
a technical one. I designed it for a social effect - to
help people work together - and not as a
technical toy. The ultimate goal of the Web is to
support and improve our weblike existence in
the world.”
(Tim Berners-Lee - Weaving the Web, p. 123)
People have sometimes asked me whether I am upset that I
have not made a lot of money from the Web. In fact, I
made some conscious decisions about which way to take my
life. These I would not change - though I am making no
comment on what I might do in the future. What does
distress me, though, is how important a question it seems
to be to some. This happens mostly in America, not
Europe. What is maddening is the terrible notion that
a person's value depends on how important and financially
successful they are, and that is measured in terms of
money. That suggests disrespects for the researchers
across the globe developing ideas for the next leaps in
science and technology.
Core in my upbringing was a value system that put
monetary gain well in its place, behind things like
doing what I really want to do. To use net worth as
a criterion by which judge people is to set out our
children's sights on cash rather than on things that will
actually make them happy.
It can be occasionally frustrating to think about things my family could have done with a lot of money. But in general I'm fairly happy to let other people be in the Royal Family role (as it were), as long as they don't abuse the power they have as a result. It's not as if I can just make decisions that change the Web ... but I can try to get an entire industry to do it. My priority is to see the Web develop in a way that will hold us in good stead for a long time. If someone tries to monopolize the Web - by, for example, pushing a proprietary variation of network protocols - they're in for fight.
[da Weaving the Web, p. 107-108]
Tim Berners-Lee e Oreste Signore al decennale del W3C (Boston, dicembre 2004)
Non chiedetevi:
cosa può fare il web per
me?
…ma…
cosa posso fare io per il
Web?
… e il supporters
program
Domande?
Se non è sul Web non esiste ...
... troverete sul sito dell' Ufficio (http://www.w3c.it/)
le slide (http://www.w3c.it/talks/2006/viaggioTelecom2006/)