Fuzzbot is designed to detect RDFa and other semantic data formats and display them to the person browsing. RDFa is a way to embed machine-readable data into web pages, which helps computers help you interact with web pages in a smarter way. For example, Fuzzbot can show you information about people that it has found on a web page - helping you view only the data in which you're interested.
The goal of Fuzzbot is to integrate Microformats and RDFa into a common format (JSON/RDF) which authors can then write Actions and UIs against. What this means is that Fuzzbot will deal with higher-level semantic concepts (People, Places, Events, Audio, Video, etc.), rather than formats (hCard, FOAF, etc.). Fuzzbot is primarily a test bed for UI concepts and is not a replacement for Operator - ideally, some of what we learn from Fuzzbot could be integrated into Operator. http://rdfa.digitalbazaar.com/fuzzbot/ Screenshots are available here, for those that don't want to install the plugin: http://rdfa.digitalbazaar.com/fuzzbot#screenshots Some of you might note that the primary UI concept behind Fuzzbot is based on Dmitri Glazkov's Margin Marks concept[1] that he posted to this mailing list about 3-4 months ago. It is a visual approach to displaying semantic data. The current release (v0.7.5) is a very preliminary version of the software. There will be UI bugs and perhaps some operational bugs (For example, parsing Digg.com is very slow). Firefox XPIs are available for both Linux and Windows, here: http://rdfa.digitalbazaar.com/fuzzbot/download/ All librdfa source code is released under LGPL v3, and the Fuzzbot plugin is released under the Mozilla Public License. Source code is available via GIT: git clone http://rdfa.digitalbazaar.com/fuzzbot.git git clone http://rdfa.digitalbazaar.com/librdfa.git If you have any thoughts or questions on the direction of this project, or where you'd like to see it headed, please discuss on the list and we'll try to work it into the project plan. -- manu PS: We're also looking into creating a native C library to do Microformats parsing, but wanted to make sure there wasn't anybody that had already done this. Is there anybody on here that has created a native C library for parsing Microformats? [1] http://glazkov.com/blog/margin-marks/ _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
