VAMP ≈ Web 2.0?

Web 2.0 is a hype based on wish thinking from technically non-knowledgeable commentors that have scratched the surface of web collaboration tools such as google doc, Wikipedia and other wikies. Discounting old and weak standards such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript (an oldish Scheme), there is need of some qualified data and metadata information transfer, and I suspect the VAMP Project might become a replacement of the Good Ole Web. The missing parts are the new browsers, replacing the old web browsers for being protectionistic and obstructing the development of web standards, foremost Gecko/Mozilla who systematically deviate, and Internet Explorer who systematically non-develops and claims "market standard" while not standardizing. To the hell with them! Throw out the old shit and make a new web!

The pilot applications sketched in the VAMP PDF:

• Museum AstroKiosk
• Planetarium Visualization
• Online Sky Navigation Software
• Desktop Planetarium Software
• Stellarium

The architecture requires an Astronomy Visualization Metadata (AVM) format and VAMP Server Databases.

I would suggest – in the long run – to consider enhancing the AVM and scope of interest to other sciences.

★ TODO: write an article at Citizendium (requires an account), or one at Wikipedia.