[isf-wifidog] Re: Lot WiFiDog, Vol 4, Parution 14

[Dana Spiegel]

This is interesting, though seems to be overkill.

What is the purpose of exchanging node information? If this is in 
reference to Wi-Fi Thank You (which I posted about but only received 2 
responses about), I don't want to build something too complex. I would 
rather build something that addresses the need to have a single 
registration database, but share essential information in order to 
provide a service through another site.

If this is in reference to an NYCwireless installation of WifiDog, I 
think we need to first consider why there would be information sharing 
at all. It seems to me that the most useful reason would be to share 
user accounts. Beyond that, perhaps a shared display of online hotspots 
would be useful. In the case of the sharing of user accounts, some sort 
of remote authentication would be far preferable than synchronizing 
account information.

Regardless, I would like to ask again about Wi-Fi Thank You... What kind 
of integration would be appropriate and useful for enabling WifiDog to 
utilze the Wi-Fi Thank You system? I can build a REST interface (with a 
far simpler schema than the WirelessOntology one), but XML-RPC is easier 
(I've built many XML-RPC services in the past) and you already require 
XML-RPC in the WifiDog server.

Dana Spiegel
Executive Director
NYCwireless
dana at nycwireless.net
www.nycwireless.net
+1 917 402 0422


wifidog-request at listes.ilesansfil.org wrote:

>Message: 2
>Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 08:53:34 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Francois Proulx <fproulx at lecameleon.net>
>Subject: [isf-wifidog] Using REST+RDF to share node infos
>To: WiFiDog Captive Portal <wifidog at listes.ilesansfil.org>
>Message-ID: <20050511155334.C716D38796 at sitemail.everyone.net>
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>Mike sent a message a few days ago about a project in London. I actually met Jo Walsh at the MDCN event last friday with Mike. I talked with her about the XML namespace that she created.
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>I thought this might be the perfect way to exchange nodes infos with NYC Wireless and our future partners. Combining a REST protocol with RDF files would make a perfect cross-platform, cross-system interchange format.
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>They even use FOAF http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/
>And the Geo namespace : http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#
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>But more interstingly they created : http://xmlns.com/2003/wireless/
>Which is an ontology for wireless network nodes.
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>Here's a example.
>http://map.wirelesslondon.info/node_rdf/44153
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