On Sep 29, 2009, at 12:12 AM, Niels Mayer wrote:
> http://blogs.talis.com/n2/archives/722 > > Presenting BBC and NASA data using Freemix and SPARQL 16th July > 2009, 10:55 am by Leigh Dodds In: Tips and Tricks, Tutorials > One of the most interesting applications I saw at the recent > Semantic Technology conference was Freemix. The application, which > is currently in limited beta, allows anyone to easily create > customized views over data that they upload into the system. There’s > also the usual networking features providing an additional social > dimension to data sharing and publishing. As I understand it > Zepheira have plans for expanding the range of features in all sorts > of ways, including new visualisations, the ability to merge and > remix data from several sources, and naturally enough a commercial > version that can be deployed within the enterprise. The core of > Freemix is Simile Exhibit and a drag and drop interface for building > up an Exhibit presentation over data that the user has uploaded. > Data can be presented in several different ways, including simple > tabular spreadsheets and in the Exhibit JSON format. Exhibit > provides a number of different existing views suitable for > presenting data, including lists, tables, maps, timelines, etc. As a > web developer its straight-forward to build up your own Exhibits; > Freemix takes this to the next level, making it trivial to build a > presentation in just a few clicks, without the need to learn any > markup: you just have to understand your own data. > [...]http://zepheira.com/solutions/Freemix/ > > Freemix.it is a public (currently invitational beta) social > networking site for digital content. Freemix.it is built on the > Freemix platform and allows anyone to slice, show and rapidly share > data with colleagues and friends. Using Freemix.it, you can easily > transform data and create compelling Web pages with facets. You can > easily mashup content in a list or a table, or on a map, timeline, > scatter plot or pie chart. > > They also seem to use Exhbit in the company website: http://zepheira.com/team/ Indeed ;) We (Zepheira) use Exhibit as appropriate in various aspects of our work. The Freemix service cited above is one of these. While i'd be happy to discuss any of this in detail, i think it's sufficient to simply say we've found Exhibit a very useful and flexible tool to address a wide range of industry needs. I don't think any of the members of the Simile project have really stopped thinking about the potential of the work done or of where this work can go. Since its end, my particular interest has been on helping bridge some of this work with various practical needs of industry. While issues of Exhibit scalability are a limiting factor in many cases, we've been successful enough in demonstrating its applicability to continue funding various patches / fixes, enhancements such as the Open Layers and (real soon now) stable Timeplot integration into exhibit, etc. We hope to help address some of the issues of scalability shortly. ;) --eric (going back to lurk mode) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
