I aspire to help the W3C Technical Architecture Group ( TAG ) shape the web's technical direction, leveraging my deep understanding and practical application of architecture principles in implementation and specification development. The challenges that the web must address are those of society: how can we ensure the systems we design are contributing to democratising access to information and…
To the attention of W3C Linked Web Storage ( LWS ) Working Group ( WG ) Team Contact, Pierre-Antoine Champin , and the W3C Team : As per W3C Invited Experts , I would like to request to join the W3C LWS WG as an Invited Expert ( IE ) . My goal is to continue contributing to open standards development and the broader community. My W3C user account: https://www.w3.org/users/46140/ I have no…
Decisions Standards are made by those who show up. , so goes the saying. But, it is a privilege to have the opportunity to show up, so we ought to use it for common good. I have had the privilege of working on open web standards since 2006 with individuals and organisations from diverse backgrounds, all sharing a common passion for making the web a better place. In this article I reflect on my…
dokieli is a socially-aware clientside editor for decentralised article publishing, annotations and social interactions with an ocean of open web standards at its disposal. I made the first commit to dokieli 10 years ago. I built what I needed, and use it (still). This is the story of procrastination of epic proportions, making connections, and having fun. After working on the StatusNet platform…
The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past. We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backward into the future. Suburbia lives imaginatively in Bonanza-land. The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects , p. 74-75, Marshall McLuhan , 1967 Abstract This thesis is…
We purpose language — a technology — to shape ourselves and everything around us. I often found oral and written communication challenging. I jammed more information than I needed to, and sometimes left out important bits. It was all connected and relevant (in my head) but I couldn't map my thoughts to words that well. I hacked my way through within the boundaries of time and space. That affected…
Abstract This article describes the semantic structure and linking of the W3C Recommendation Linked Data Notifications (LDN), its test suite, and implementation reports. Semantically interlinking and detailed machine-readability of components related to Web standards and their implementations is novel, and can be useful for coherently documenting software projects and their conformance with…
ask yourself "where am i now?" tell yourself "i am here now" ask yourself again in the future "where am i now?" tell yourself "i am here now"
Background: We have an article that is peer-reviewed and accepted by an academic community , however we do not agree with the publisher's copyright form (essentially giving exclusive rights). Here is what we are proposing instead. This proposal is derived from FIPATRAFTO by Stevan Harnad . We think discoverability (e.g., something referring to the article, or findable) and to anyone is important.…
Abstract Decentralising the creation, publication, and annotation of hypertext documents provides authors with a technological guarantee for independence of any publication authority. While the Web was designed as a decentralised environment, individual authors still lack the ability to conveniently author and publish documents, and to engage in social interactions with documents of others in a…