Dan Brickley wrote:
Ah, we're an excitable bunch around here ;)
Regardless of whether these data URLs are available, the UI work is
exciting and I'm glad you shared it with the W3C lists. If others have
smart ideas for visualising and navigating RDFesque datasets (whether
closed or open by various definitions), let me be clear: they're very
welcome to post them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I hope our enthusiasm
hereabouts for open data doesn't discourage people for sharing
innovative UI ideas. We need all the help we can get! :)
In similar vein, it's well worth SW people poking around
http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/
http://processing.org/ and similar, ... the fact that these don't
(yet....) natively support RDF is no reason not to learn from them...
Thanks, Dan!
I think that even small things can make the SW effort feel more
welcoming, and more open, toward people with less interest in data
modeling and data linking. For example, the ISWC conferences have been
using a page layout format of one column 4.5" wide (wasting 4" on a
letter-size page). Most screenshots are landscape-oriented. So people
who want to show screenshots in ISWC papers either have to resize their
screenshots to unreadable sizes, or crop them. If there's an opportunity
to adopt a two column layout, allowing screenshots to stretch across the
columns, that would make someone like me a little happier publishing UI
work to ISWC. :-)
Maybe folks on these lists who are interested in publishing UI work to
ISWC can vote if they want a more accommodating page layout...
Thanks for listening!
David
