Here are the slides from my talk at XTech 2008 in Dublin this morning.
Hopefully they'll make a bit of sense without the accompanying explanation.
The main points, I think, were
- Once you have an object that's a bundle of identifiers and attributes, you should be able to use that to query databases directly, without having to know which fields each of those databases makes use of.
- Using Amarok as an example of querying web services and local databases to display contextual information appropriate to the current activity, communicated in real-time over XMPP.
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Thanks so much for the slides! I am really sad I missed the talk though :-(
Just a small comment: I'd have put the "You" in the last slide in the middle of the FOAF bubble :-D
Cheers and thanks again!
y
Thanks Alf! It's also worth making the slideshare link explicit. These are better full-screen.
http://www.slideshare.net/hubslides/with-or-without-uids
BTW--Did you catch "Lost in Transliteration", which suggests using author identifiers, from last week's Science?
DOI: 10.1126/science.320.5877.745a