On 23/09/2007, David Huynh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi David,

> Timegrid should be able to read the same data files as Timeline.

Excellent, thanks.

> Please note that Timegrid has not been officially released so you use it
> at your own risk :). Mason Tang is Timegrid's author and he'll be
> continuing its development soon until it's good enough for a 1.0 release.

Hooray for Mason Tang!

> We have, however, tried to use Timegrid in conjunction with Exhibit to
> build this client-side only web app for picking classes at MIT
>     http://picker.mit.edu/

Looking good.

> What sort of data are you loading into Timegrid if I may ask? We're
> trying to understand / predict what people will do with it.

I'm starting to use an online triplestore as a personal database. The
immediate thing, for which Timegrid should be perfect, is showing my
activity log. Working remotely I need to report on my activity, but my
own memory doesn't support recording that for more that a couple of
hours ;-). So I've hacked a minimal little Java desktop app in which I
can quickly enter what I'm doing right now and post it off to the
store (the entries can be folksy-tagged, and I can also type them as
to-do items with priorities... but it's still very rough - source is
at : http://n2.talis.com/svn/playground/danja/quicklog/ ).

I'm using a Talis Platform store, running a SPARQL query on the endpoint:

http://api.talis.com/stores/danja-dev1/services/sparql

- pushing that through an online XSLT service and rendering the result
in Timegrid. I'm gluing the bits together using PHP.

In the first instance I think I'll just do a broad SELECT, grab
anything with a dc:date. Later I'll probably put together some more
focussed queries, starting with just the activity log.

I think Timegrid might lend itself to reuse on the Platform, if you
take a look at the store search interface at:

http://api.talis.com/stores/danja-dev1/items

(try "quicklog" as a query string) the results are returned as
enriched RSS 1.0 - it'd be nice to offer a Timegrid view as an
alternative.

Cheers,
Danny.

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http://dannyayers.com
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