I had started to migrate the examples from the old wiki and elsewhere on the web over to the new wiki. While doing so, it made sense to me to include other resources, like blog posts or third-party apps that make use of SIMILE widgets. It also made sense to include information from all SIMILE projects. So, I created an Exhibit (powered by a Google Spreadsheet) of all the resources I found and linked them from the new wiki home:
http://www.simile-widgets.org/wiki/ (up to 153 resources!) A few thoughts... 1. It would be nice if this Exhibit was not on my server (geo42.com) but rather directly on simile-widgets.org. (and styled a bit nicer as well!) I've tried a few things to add the necessary javascript components to the wiki but I do not believe I have permission to do so. Is this something worthwhile to add to the main s-w.org site? 2. Using a Google spreadsheet is the best way I know for community maintenance of this data. It's easy to turn into a JSON feed as input to Exhibit. My first thought was to create a new wiki page for each resource, tag it sufficiently, then somehow generate a JSON feed with all the appropriate tags as attributes. I can do this in Drupal but couldn't figure it out with Mediawiki. (that method is probably overkill anyway.) If necessary, does anyone have another idea besides a Google spreadsheet? (of course, a custom PHP/MySQL app would work if anyone wants to code it up.) 3. The attributes in the spreadsheet are very limited: title, description, SIMILE project, type of resource, In The Wild or homegrown, does it include a map, does it include a graph, and URL. Of course, it'd be nice to have things like a screenshot image, the software version, features used, date published, person/org, etc... However, IMO, this information would be difficult to maintain. As well, I don't know how to find that information easily for many of the entries. Although some info *may* be better than none. Any thoughts here? (Wouldn't it be nice to have a script that went through the URLs of each resource, tested the URL to make sure it's alive, and parsed the HTML/javascript code to determine which SIMILE product it's using and what features are enabled? :-) ) - 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 ************************************************** David Karger wrote: > > David Huynh wrote: > >> Rob wrote: >> >> >>> Hey, >>> >>> I am in the process of creating an exhibit which highlights all the >>> eateries on the MIT campus. Right now, I'm trying to think of >>> classifier values that will allow users to filter through these >>> eateries. >>> >>> This is what I have so far: >>> >>> American, Breakfast, Bakery, Cafe, Catering, Deli, Desert, Dinner, >>> Ethnic, Grocery, Healthy, Lunch, Made on Order, Mexican, On the Go, >>> Pizza, Prepared, Pub, Soup, Sit Down, Sushi, Vegetarian >>> >>> >>> >> That sounds like "cuisine". >> >> > Actually I would break it down further, into e.g. cuisine (american, > mexican, sushi), meal (breakfast, lunch, dinner), preparation (made to > order, on the go, prepared...) > > You might also look at this exhibit for some ideas: > http://gvn.rhizomatics.org.uk/glasgowguide.html > > (which is on the examples page at > http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Exhibit/Examples , which should really get > migrated to the new wiki). > >> >> >>> I'd appreciate any suggestions you have that would help filter the >>> eateries even more. >>> >>> >>> >> How about... >> - price range: $, $$, $$$,... or, $10 - 15, $15 - 20, ... >> - delivery? >> - open hours >> - accept credit cards? >> - geolocation >> - health rating >> - free wi-fi? >> - has vegetarian dishes? >> - has student discount? >> - ambiance >> - how many T stops away, distance to closest T stop >> >> David >> >> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
