RDF Calendaring and scheduling scenarios

Please send more scenarios to www-rdf-calendar@w3.org

-- from Michael Rose (rose@cti.dtu.dk)

• I get a conference announcement (email or Web page) which has meeting dates and various deadlines. I want to pull out the dates and other relevant info into whatever organizing tool I'm using this week.
• I'm traveling to another country and would like to know if they are having any holidays while I'm there
• I want to publish my calendar online, but only want specific groups of people to see specific details
• It's time to write a yearly report and all the project members have to send their time spent on the project so the largely fictional 'person months spent' can be compared to the completely fictional 'person months budgeted'

-- from Aaron Swartz

-- from Libby.miller@bristol.ac.uk

• I've got a work calendar (password protected) and a Palm, and I'd like to view the data in the same place.
• I'm going to a week long meeting, and I want to combine the schedule of the meeting with my personal calendar.
• I'm trying to schedule a meeting with three people without having complete information about their calendar.
• I'm trying to divide time spent on a project between various people
• I'm trying to schedule cinema trips with my friends.
• I'm trying to divide up my TV watching, TiVO-style.
• I'm trying to book plane tickets for someone else.
• I want to find out who was at the meeting which produced the Dublin Core 15 elements, and what documents were produced a result of that meeting.

-- from Edd Dumbill

i wanted folk to be able to say "I'm going to such and such a conference." And then pick out their friends or colleagues who were too.

-- from Marja-Riitta Koivunen

• DanC bumps into a really cool calendar Website. He immediately annotates it by using his 5 step scale from "related", "somewhat interesting", "interesting", and "very interesting" to "this really rocks". He also adds some keywords to the site that may come from his ontology editor (e.g. http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/~sst/Research/Publications/semantic-annotation.pdf) or may be just structured text that can be added to the vocabulary later. He uses the open W3C metadata server to store the data as he does not want to keep information secret.
  
  At the same time Libby is annotating some calendar pages too using the Bristol metadata server. She uses a 3 step scale cold, lukewarm and hot and her own keyword vocabulary. DanC, Libby and some others met at W3C technical plenary and decided to share information on calendars that they find on the Web.
  
  So now Libby configures her calendar info page again. It will use the info on the W3C metadata server in addition to the Bristol metadata server. She also defines that everybody on the rdf-ig list can use her calendar info on the server. She tells that her "hot" equals DanC:s "this really rocks", "very interesting" and "interesting"; her "lukewarm" equals "somewhat interesting" and "related" and there is no equality to "cold". (This could also happen automatically in time when she evaluates some DanC:s papers by using her own vocabulary.) She tries to see if she can use also DanC:s keyword schema for finding calendar info. She defines a similarity between her own keyword calendar and DanC:s group of keywords: calendar user interface, calendar scraping, calendar schema, and calendar logic. She also decides to use Eric Millers automatic categorization as a back-up so that she does not miss anything accidently. This can be activated in the same view she now shows the calendar info by toggling a button.

--from Dan Connolly - about Palm addressbook/email

• let's be conservative and assume folks that invite me to things aren't subject to any constraints. Then I gotta transcribe the email invitation into the semantic web myself...
  my MUA (netscape 4 mailer) supports drag-n-drop between folders, and I've seen javascript drag-n-drop thingies... is there any hope I could put some javascript in the HTML rendition of my calendar to allow me to drag-n-drop mail messages onto my calendar?
  user interface: drag message onto cell in calendar-as-table; up pops a selection between invitation/create-new-event, cancellation, etc.
  unfortunately, I've researched the drag-n-drop stuff quite a bit, and what I found doesn't encourage me. The javascript drag-n-drop thingies were local hacks, not integrated with desktop dnd protocols....
  Sounds like the kind of inter-frame javascript security loophole that caused NS a bunch of problems a while back... ... and the drag-message-between-folders uses Motif drag-n-drop; it might not even communicate with other X clients.