Phoster

Research and Development

Activities

January 24, 2025

Securing Data Access with Templated Queries proposes utilizing templates to simplify securing and providing access-control systems for both databases and knowledge graphs, essentially mapping the processing of structured queries into the processing of objects resembling remote procedure calls.

January 23, 2025

Semantically Relating Selections of Text draws inspiration from the Web Annotation Data Model and indicates that selections of texts could be semantically interrelated, with applications including to argumentation, AI, digital humanities, education, fact-checking, historical research, and linguistics.

January 8, 2025

Document Object Model Integration shares some ideas to enable multimodal prompting with the Prompt API.

January 7, 2025

Uses of Embedding Vectors in the Fediverse indicates that providing forums' participants with opportunities to view contextually similar past discussions could enhance and support organizational memory, organizational learning, and collective intelligence.

January 1, 2025

The Future of Calendaring supports the advancement of decentralized calendaring technologies to benefit individuals, strengthen communities, facilitate civic engagement, and support democracy, and offers some new technical ideas, in these regards.

December 14, 2024

Wikistoryboards proposes a new resource for collaboratively creating and editing computational storyboards from which educational videos can be automatically generated by artificial-intelligence systems.

December 7, 2024

Document Co-authoring Enhanced by Structured Knowledge broaches that users of document-authoring applications and websites could utilize advanced project templates to better co-create documents with artificial-intelligence systems processing both natural language and extracted structured knowledge.

December 6, 2024

Issues-based Discussion for Articles proposes adding issues-based discussion to the set of features available for Wikipedia collaboration and contribution.

November 22, 2024

Web Context proposes a number of interrelated technical topics towards enhancing Web-based context-aware computing scenarios.

November 16, 2024

Idea: Charitable and Philanthropic Fundraising on Netflix describes a new main-menu category which would allow Netflix viewers to browse, select, and donate to local, regional, national, and global charities and philanthropies and to emergency and disaster response and relief efforts.

October 30, 2024

Towards WebSub 2.0 expands upon technology ideas at the intersection of open government, civic technology, artificial intelligence, information retrieval, and journalism.

October 27, 2024

Open Government, Civic Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Information Retrieval shares ideas with respect to pull-based, push-based, and social information-retrieval systems and indicates that artificial intelligence, e.g., foundation models, could be of use for routing content, e.g., public-sector documents, reports, transcripts, minutes, excerpts therefrom, and described datasets, from publishers to interested consumers.

October 14, 2024

Multi-agent Systems and ActivityPub broaches that artificial-intelligence agents and human users could interact and collaborate via centralized and decentralized Web-based structured forums.

September 18, 2024

Enabling Meta-commands proposes enabling powerful and convenient meta-commands by allowing multiple entry points in binary executable formats.

September 10, 2024

More Easily Creating Nonprofit Organizations Centered Around Open-source Software Projects discusses simplifying processes for teams to create nonprofit organizations centered around one or more open-source software projects.

August 29, 2024

Semantic Graphs for Interoperability between Websites and AI Assistants shares some ideas about using Semantic Web technologies to enable extensible interoperation between websites and AI assistants.

August 10, 2024

The Future of Fundraising on Streaming Media Services shares some ideas about the future of fundraising on streaming media services.

August 4, 2024

Proposal to Add New Attributes presents some ideas for adding new attributes to Lean mathlib.

July 16, 2024

Ideas for Representing Conversations and Meetings presents some ideas to the new IETF vCon Working Group pertaining to artificial-intelligence use cases and scenarios involving processing and analyzing meetings' transcripts and minutes.

July 10, 2024

Representing Meetings' Transcripts and Minutes presents ideas towards representing transcripts and minutes for both in-person and virtual (e.g., WebRTC) meetings in a standard way.

June 26, 2024

Man-machine Dialogues Grounded in Public-sector Meeting Transcripts discusses that citizens and journalists may soon be able to ask questions of and engage in dialogues with artificial-intelligence systems about public-sector meetings.

June 20, 2024

Message Priority, Urgency, or Importance indicates that, by extending ActivityPub with priority, urgency, or importance for messages, social-media and other communication technologies could be more compatible with focus sessions during which interruptions are reduced.

May 14, 2024

Educational Exercises and Activities advances the state of the art with respect to educational exercises and activities, e.g., homework, quiz, and exam items, sequences of such items, and the interoperability between these and tutoring agents.

April 25, 2024

Orchestration Between AI-enhanced Wearable Devices and Secondary Displays envisions people as able to make use of secondary display devices while interacting with artificial-intelligence assistants via their wearable computing devices (e.g., earbuds, glasses, pins, and watches) in both their smart homes and workplaces.

April 15, 2024

Channels 2.0 broaches that channels can be much more than just video containers or streams.

April 3, 2024

Wikinotebooks is a proposal for a Wikimedia project to enable new, wiki-style, multi-user collaboration for end-users with respect to notebook-based computing in a way tightly integrated with the Wikimedia software ecosystem. Considered are that end-users could bring client-side computing, e.g., Jupyter Lite, utilize their own remote resources, e.g., from their research institutions, employers, and other cloud service providers, or utilize Wikimedia Foundation resources.