After more than 6 months of very hard work, I'm very happy to announce the immediate availability of the new generation of Piggy Bank, the firefox extension that turns your browser into a mashup platform using semantic web technologies.
This release introduces several major features, including: - screen scrapers are executed in a sandbox for increased security - cache and scraping have been redesigned to prevent memory leaks - added support for Timeline, Welkin and fixed Google Maps support - Added Fresnel support - Added GRDDL support - Drastically simplified the scraping API - Ships with DSpace scraper that works on all DSpace installations - 'data coin' appears on all web pages A note of warning: due to the changes in the security model, the scraping API had to be redesigned. This means that all screen scrapers that worked on 2.x versions of Piggy Bank will not work on version 3.0 without modification. Documentation on how to perform such migration will appear soon. Piggy Bank will be found (along with a revamped and wikified documentation) at http://simile.mit.edu/piggy-bank/ - o - I'm also happy to announce the availability of Solvent 2.0, which has been ported to the new 3.0 scraping API (and the documentation has been updated). Solvent will be found at http://simile.mit.edu/solvent/ - o - Enjoy. -- Stefano Mazzocchi Digital Libraries Research Group Research Scientist Massachusetts Institute of Technology E25-131, 77 Massachusetts Ave skype: stefanomazzocchi Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA email: stefanom at mit . edu ------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
