On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 11:10 PM, Niels-Oliver Walkowski
walkow...@nowalkowski.de wrote:
Dear Zim Community,
I am writing to you because in the last weeks there was an idea going
around in my head which I think I just want to drop just to see what
reactions it raises and what kind of feedback I may get, so it maybe will
be clearer for me, if this idea makes sense, is reasonable, fits or not.
The background: I am doing my PhD about so called Enhanced Publications,
digital native publications, mostly on the basis of the OAI-ORE standard
and Semantic Web related. As these approaches are al very science related
they don't fit to humanities research and they also have strong epistemic
commitments which a humanities point of you can not share. In my PhD I
approach the topic from a analytical and theoretical point of you, but what
I really would like to do, is to build up - or try to build up - an
authoring tool which is capable of building such Enhanced Publications
which reflects my results and humanities research needs (as I understand
them).
I looked out for existing software which could be interesting in this
context and which technically was build within my scope. As I personally
used Zim in the past and Zim is made in Python, it felt a good idea to
connect it with this idea. At this point compared to my vision three areas
of further development would have to be done. As Enhanced Publications are
fundamentally aggregations of resources of any type which build up a
compound object the integration and metadata description of these objects
must be possible (it must not be processable), the possibility of semantic
markup and integration/editing of schemas is essential, the combination of
several segments (wiki pages) in one view must be possible.
The tasks are somehow substantial which is the reason for me hesitating
and just asking for feedback. It would interest me if you just see a point
of connection between what I described and Zim, if there maybe is an
interest of such a development within the Zim community, what thoughts you
have reading these lines and also some more precise things, like: Could
such a development reasonable be done as a plugin or is a branch a better
solution. I am still more in a process of playing with thoughts and it
would help me a lot to hear what you think.
I agree with Marco that some real world examples would help tremendously to
understand what it is that you are looking for.
What may or may not be related is the work I'm doing to integrate cards
in zim.
Basically this will be a plugin that adds inline objects in zim pages that
contain a couple of fields. These fields can be e.g. properties of an
object being described.
A concrete example would be to use zim as a book catalog. I would want to
define a book card that contains fields like Title, Author etc. The
Title would be a text field, the Author could be a linked field referring
to another page with info about the author.
This become semantic in the way that fields can be links that have a type
(e.g. the type author in the example above) this forming a triple of the
source page, the target page and the type of relation. Next step of course
is to integrate such objects in the search dialog, link map visualization
etc.
Does this relate to what you are thinking about ?
Regards,
Jaap
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