Greetings. If there is interest in XML formats or OWL ontologies for EULA’s, privacy policies, data usage policies, the terms and conditions of websites and services, with advantages to users including browser configurability, notifications and well-informedness, we could start a Community Group or a Business Group on the topic (http://www.w3.org/community/) which could discuss the entirety of the topics, in detail, en route to formalizing specifications of formats or ontologies sufficiently broad and expressive for use cases and scenarios.
In some scenarios, there is a relationship between user settings and configurations and EULA’s, privacy policies, data usage policies, terms and conditions. There may already exist industry standard formats for user settings and configurations. If not, the Community Group and Business Group could also consider specifying formats and ontologies for user settings and configurations formats. Terms and conditions files could be static, for all users of a website, e.g. .xml or .rdf, could describe settings-based contingencies, or could be dynamic and per user, e.g. .php, reflecting user settings and configurations. OpenSearch (http://www.opensearch.org/) can facilitate interoperability between platform search features, browser search features and website search features and, similarly, user settings and configuration formats or ontologies could facilitate interoperability between platform settings and configuration user interfaces, browser applications, and website-specific settings and configurations. If there is interest in XML formats or OWL ontologies for EULA’s, privacy policies, data usage policies, the terms and conditions of websites and services, and in the settings and configurations of websites, a new Community Group or a Business Group canaddress formats and ontologies, discussing the entirety of the topics, in detail, en route to formalizing specifications of formats or ontologies sufficiently broad and expressive for use cases and scenarios. Kind regards, Adam Sobieski From: Adam Sobieski Sent: Saturday, July 6, 2013 10:33 PM To: [email protected], semantic-web, [email protected], ProjectParadigm-ICT-Program Greetings. I wanted to also broach XML formats or OWL ontologies for EULA’s, privacy policies, data usage policies, for the terms and conditions of websites and services. With such a standard format, browser settings, and possibly visual indicators of website policy dimensions, users could browse the Web in more well-informed ways. Options could then include: (a) A specified filename, e.g. policy.xml, policy.rdf, eula.xml, eula.rdf, terms.xml or terms.rdf, resembling other described or specified filenames such as: dublin.rdf, favicon.ico, opensearch.xml, robots.txt, sitemap.xml . (b) an HTTP-based mechanism, possibly HTTP 2.0 . (c) a combination of (a) and (b). Kind regards, Adam Sobieski From: Adam Sobieski Sent: Saturday, July 6, 2013 3:52 PM To: [email protected], semantic-web, [email protected], ProjectParadigm-ICT-Program Greetings. To that there exists no way to change the status quo, interestingly, there exists at least one such hypothesis. The hypothesis includes that a portion of each Web users’ ISP bill could be automatically distributed to Web content providers and Web service providers based upon the distribution(s) of usage, consumption or, otherwise phrased, ratings. The hypothesis described intends to empower Web users and in traditional ways, as customers. Presently, the most popular websites are listed at http://www.alexa.com/topsites and, in addition to directly distributing sums of portions of users’ ISP bills as per sums of users’ consumption, there exist theoretical functions which could shape distribution curves, for instance to route more money towards individuals, groups and small businesses to incentivize various startups, for instance bloggers, music bands or groups starting or scaling magazines. The indicated hypothesis resembles traditional capitalism and describes money flowing from consumers towards producers in ways proportional to consumption, to ratings, or as per some function(s) of consumption or ratings to optimize economies. Telecoms and ISP’s invest in the telecommunication infrastructure and the indicated hypothesis describes invigorating the content infrastructure, the stimulation of innovation, of new products and websites, competition for customers and ratings, the opening of new niches, the facilitation of market entry for new participants, and the enhancement of sustainability for a wider interval of scales. For content and service providers, revenue maximization would still suggest advertising-based and data harvesting models atop ratings-based revenue through ISP’s, however, though enhanced sustainability for a wider interval of scales would entail a greater likelihood of more products in each niche where users could select from competing products for reasons including based upon advertising and data harvesting terms and conditions. Summarily, there does exist at least one means of changing the current state of affairs, albeit a theoretical one, a hypothesis with regard to economic models of the Web, pertaining to the flows of monies between consumers, producers, advertisers, and other knowledge economy participants. The status quo can be phrased as an emergent phenomenon of the current economic model where Web businesses most often or nearly always obtain revenue from advertisers, advertising networks, and from the sale of harvested and processed data. The hypothesis described intends to empower Web users and in traditional ways, as customers. Kind regards, Adam Sobieski P.S. Topics indicating knowledge economic advantages to society include that the public should want for each business in each sector, as well as for each investment banker, to have equal access to a selection of high-quality market analysis reports, for organizations producing such reports to purchase data and analytics from Web companies, data which does not personally identify users (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personally_identifiable_information#In_privacy_law), and then to produce and sell products, market analysis reports and analytics, to businesses and to banks resulting in enhanced economies, GDP growth, and job creation. From: ProjectParadigm-ICT-Program Sent: Friday, July 5, 2013 12:25 PM To: [email protected], semantic-web, [email protected] Are there any companies, non-profit organizations or research institutes that do outreach, PR or building awareness among press, decision-makers and other groups about linked (open) data, the semantic web and related technologies? I talked to the director Cullen Hoback of the documentary film "Terms and Conditions May Apply" (www.tacma.net) and he commented on the fact that there are no ways to "re-tool" the internet to change the current state of affairs, which entails very little privacy and global surveillance and systemic mining of big data for all the wrong reasons. LD, the semantic web and open access were an unknown factor for him. This shows the need for better outreach. Milton Ponson GSM: +297 747 8280 PO Box 1154, Oranjestad Aruba, Dutch Caribbean Project Paradigm: A structured approach to bringing the tools for sustainable development to all stakeholders worldwide by creating ICT tools for NGOs worldwide and: providing online access to web sites and repositories of data and information for sustainable development This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. 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