When we introduced the "when" part in the w4
concept, almost one year ago, what we had in mind was a space where
events would be topics which could be aggregated in calendars and
allowed users to navigate information using a timeline.
We have not finished implementing the when side yet for a few reasons:
Now we have decided to start working again on this issue and come out with a first solution.
Our first step is going to be implementing a tool which will allow to add event-related information to a weblog post. We are planning to use ESF even if reading several comments to yesterday's post (thanks guys :-) we have learned that there are several others standards which can be used. If there are going to be tools supporting these standards we will support them server side, but to begin with we think that ESF will do the trick and it will work well with ENT. Server side we will also want to collect events from other sources (calendars, intranets, databases, etc.).
Using the same approach we are using with topics, new events will be automatically distributed among members of a cloud allowing users to pick an event if it already exist instead of creating it.
There will also be relations between events and other topics on the server, which we believe will create a sigificant added value to the process (allowing, for example, to quickly move to all information related to an event to all information related to one of the participants).
Now, I think that this is the kind of application which needs to be seen even to start understanding its advantages. If you have any good idea on sources of events which could be thrown into the process, comment below.
We have not finished implementing the when side yet for a few reasons:
- there was no widely accepted way of transporting events in RSS feeds (we are using ENT for topics, but it doesn't work well with events)
- we didn't know exactly where to get these events from and how to display them within the site structure
Now we have decided to start working again on this issue and come out with a first solution.
Our first step is going to be implementing a tool which will allow to add event-related information to a weblog post. We are planning to use ESF even if reading several comments to yesterday's post (thanks guys :-) we have learned that there are several others standards which can be used. If there are going to be tools supporting these standards we will support them server side, but to begin with we think that ESF will do the trick and it will work well with ENT. Server side we will also want to collect events from other sources (calendars, intranets, databases, etc.).
Using the same approach we are using with topics, new events will be automatically distributed among members of a cloud allowing users to pick an event if it already exist instead of creating it.
There will also be relations between events and other topics on the server, which we believe will create a sigificant added value to the process (allowing, for example, to quickly move to all information related to an event to all information related to one of the participants).
Now, I think that this is the kind of application which needs to be seen even to start understanding its advantages. If you have any good idea on sources of events which could be thrown into the process, comment below.
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