[x3d-public] build a 3D Open Directory from DMOZ?

[John Carlson]

This looks relevant: DMOZ - RDF Data (dmoz-odp.org)
<https://dmoz-odp.org/docs/en/rdf.html> perhaps there's interest from the
semantics working group?

On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 5:53 PM John Carlson <yottzumm at gmail.com> wrote:

> Starting preparations, platform choices like WebXR vs OpenXR vs MicroSoft
> being made, starting to work with actual data.  Maybe we can discuss a
> bit @ Dec 9th meeting?
>
> An idea would be to interface DMOZ into MicroSoft apps with C# (other?).
>
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 10:38 PM John Carlson <yottzumm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Has anyone created 3D online structures from
>> https://dmoz-odp.org/ (Open Directory?)
>>
>> It should be possible with current WWW technology. We’re not trying to
>> displace the WWW.
>>
>> Could we collect geospatial and/or temporal data and present it as well?
>>
>> Can we come up with a better presentation than earth or maps?  Something
>> more exotic?
>>
>> We were thinking of a forest of trees, perhaps swaying until the mouse
>> gets near.
>>
>> What Shapes or geometry might people suggest?
>>
>> I’m imagining someone did this 25 years ago?
>>
>> I’m going to look for an archive of data rather than scraping.
>>
>> John
>>
>
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