Very cool. Great idea. I've been trying to get people using Exhibit through Drupal CMS because of it's ease of use. Of course, that plugin/module doesn't help much with the javascript/html coding, most the data part. I think both the plugin and your distribution site sounds like great ideas. Just earlier today I was browsing the web looking for SIMILE projects *in the wild.* It's a fun exercise looking how others use the same tools. (http://geo42.com/sites/simile/resources.html for a limited start)
A few thoughts on Datapress, well, mostly it's future plans... Feel free to ignore everything I say! (I'm just getting started with SIMILE projects and semantic web concepts.) - I'm not sure I would have each exhibit actually load the data while browsing. I would just use screenshots with basic metadata about each, such as number of entries, type of features, organization, etc... I'd love to see which entries use a timeline, ve mapview, use timeplot, ve different types of data streams, etc... - A nice ajax-like search would go well here. Either a "exhibit of exhibits" or probably better would be a server-based faceted search engine like apache solr. - When "playing" an exhibit, how about just showing the exhibit on it's own page? I use lightbox/thickbox for several items myself and not sure if it really works here. If you're sticking with Wordpress for the Youtube-like implementation, I would think of each exhibit as a page/post. Just a thought. - How about offering comments on each exhibit? Maybe ratings as well? This could work with a hot topics area, or most viewed, or highest rated, etc... - It be nice to offer various skins, layout plus color schemes. Based on what features they add (facet side bars, timeline, etc..) you could suggest a layout style. Maybe build this around Wordpress themes. I wonder in Wordpress is you can display separate pages with it's own theme? (I have some experience in Wordpress but not much.) Again, very cool, just like most things coming out of the SIMILE projects! - John ************************************************** John Callahan Geospatial Application Developer Delaware Geological Survey, University of Delaware 227 Academy St, Newark DE 19716-7501 Tel: (302) 831-3584 Email: [email protected] http://www.dgs.udel.edu ************************************************** Adam Marcus wrote: > Hello Simile Widgets friends! > > A few of us from Haystack have been working on a way to allow the > average person with a web presence to configure an Exhibit by way of a > graphical user interface. We've started with a WordPress plugin that > introduces Exhibit to the blogging world. Our plugin is called > DataPress, and is available here: > > http://projects.csail.mit.edu/datapress/ > > If you have a wordpress installation and want to include exhibits in > your posts or pages without doing a lot of html and javascript > hacking, take a look at this plugin. If you want to play around with > DataPress before installing it, we've set up a demo site at: > > http://projects.csail.mit.edu/datapress/demosite (username/password = > demo/demo) > > Our next steps will be to offer DataPress as a centrally hosted option > (think YouTube or ManyEyes) so that it can be embedded in any web page > while still being configured through a more convenient web interface. > Since this is an early release, we're looking for any suggestions you > might have as to how to improve our tools. We're excited to get your > advice and comments, and to see how bloggers use the tool! > > -Ted and Adam > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIMILE Widgets" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
