Compatibility

• All AmbientWebs & TreeMagic components and systems are upwardly and cross-platform compatible
• Cross-browser independence including IE7+, FF2+, Opera 9+

Technologies

• Ambient Intelligence technologies to include concepts of:
• Ubiquitous Computing
• Semantic Web (Web 2.0 / 3.0) Approaches and Methods
• JSP / Servelts
• MySQL as Database Engine
• HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Linux or Windows server capable (Linux prefered)
• XML,XML schema, RDF,OWL, SPARQL
• XML provides a surface syntax for structured documents, but imposes no semantic constraints on the meaning of these documents.
• XML Schema is a language for restricting the structure and content elements of XML documents.
• RDF is a simple data model for referring to objects (”resources”) and how they are related. An RDF-based model can be represented in XML syntax.
• RDF Schema is a vocabulary for describing properties and classes of RDF resources, with a semantics for generalization-hierarchies of such properties and classes.
• OWL adds more vocabulary for describing properties and classes: among others, relations between classes (e.g. disjointedness), cardinality (e.g. “exactly one”), equality, richer typing of properties, characteristics of properties (e.g. symmetry), and enumerated classes.
• SPARQL is a protocol and query language for semantic web data sources

Constraints/Performance Objectives

• w3.org compliant
• High transaction load
• High load DB
• High degree of scalability(small to extremely large)
• Multi-lingual interface and content to include support for western, arabic, hebrew, asian languages, etc.

Architectural principles

• Core systems support multiple data types including: image, voice, media, video, interactive games, etc.
• Object Oriented design
• eCommerce capable
• Social networking capable