Thanks Kingsley. Yeah, OK, you got me - anything is better than vi :-) Trouble is, of course, many of my friends don't have text editors.
On 7 Aug 2013, at 14:35, Kingsley Idehen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8/7/13 9:11 AM, Hugh Glaser wrote: >> On 7 Aug 2013, at 13:26, Kingsley Idehen <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>>> <snip /> >>>> Personally I would love to have something better than vi to edit my FOAF, >>>> much as I love it :-) >>> It now exists :-) >>> >> Ooo, go on Kingsley, give me hint as to what it is? :-) >> Hugh >> >> > Any editor or text editing tool that works for you. The file create, save, > and share pattern is what compliments this approach. Thus, create, edit, and > then save to your local (or shared) drive (worst case) and then publish to > the Web via your own Web Server or via 3rd part storage provider services. > > Editing Turtle content by hand works well for little chunks of Linked Data. > Spreadsheet tools also work well too for producing CSV that's (modulo header) > Turtle or N-Triples etc.. > > > The pieces: > > 1. Text Editing Tool -- whatever suits your user and usage profile > 2. Web Publication -- via your own Web Server or third party services (note > Norman's example re how to re-route to your down domain). > > Personally, at the presentation layer, I don't have any notion of "better" or > "best" since I've always seen that pursuit as being impossible for humans > targets. Basically, this is a classic "horses for courses" type challenge > that's best addressed by infrastructure dexterity as exemplified by the > architecture of the world wide web (AWWW). > > Data, Context, and Interaction (DCI [1] pattern which builds on the MVC > pattern [2] ) should be loosely coupled. > > Links: > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data,_context_and_interaction > [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model–view–controller . > > -- > > Regards, > > Kingsley Idehen > Founder & CEO > OpenLink Software > Company Web: http://www.openlinksw.com > Personal Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen > Twitter/Identi.ca handle: @kidehen > Google+ Profile: https://plus.google.com/112399767740508618350/about > LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen > > > > >
