Ryan Lee wrote: > I've added a Timelot extension for Exhibit, much like the Timeline and > mapping extensions currently in use. It's in a developmental stage. > > http://ryanlee.org/2008/03/rsy/rivalry.html
That is super cool. We should link to that from both the timeplot and the exhibit pages! > We're aware of some of the logged errors and their source. The main > issue we'd like to resolve now before moving forward is how best to > model time series information in RDF. So far we've come up with a > couple scenarios. > > The first case is illustrated in the above example, where every point on > the plot is also an item in the Exhibit database. As you can see, this > allows you to modify the graph and move around decades just by making > facet selections. > > The second case is one where modifying series via facets is of little > use. Far better for scaling (keeping the total number of items down) > would be to encapsulate the entire time series in some sort of data > structure, like a comma separated list of tuples in a string, attached > to an item. > > I suspect orienting a model around time series makes that particular > grounding difficult to use in other situations. Maybe that's just the > price. Thoughts? Other models? > > Interested parties can watch the wiki page below as things stabilize. > > http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Exhibit/2.0/Timeplot_View > -- 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
