hi David, indeed! i saw this announcement just after posting my question and thought that was awful weird as well... your editable exhibit looks great, and i will try something similar for now.
Thank you all for the ideas about a DB backend, though i would prefer to keep it lightweight and persist to JSON file instead if i can (the updates are from a single person, no concurrency for now). DB would be handy though if we were to expand to allow data updates from all our admin users, to handle locking and concurrency issues... thanks -k On Mar 2, 2:09 pm, David Karger <[email protected]> wrote: > funny, i just posted an announcement yesterday of a new tool for a > "WYSIWYG editable exhibit":http://projects.csail.mit.edu/Exhibit/Dido/ > > It supports dynamic update of simile exhibits. You can edit the data > right in the page exhibit view, then save the file to persist the > changes. Right now, the data is stored in the file with the exhibit, > which may or may not fit your purposes. Managing a separate data file > is definitely on the todo list. > > Another approach some people have taken is to keep their data in a > google spreadsheet. Exhibit can read those directly, and you can edit > the spreadsheet to change your data (and add items using a google form). > > On 3/2/2010 8:56 AM, kumarachi wrote: > > > Hi, > > > we have been using Simile Exhibit and Timeline internally at my > > company for a year now, and everyone's pleased with these. However, i > > may be the only one not so pleased with things because I maintain the > > tools, and the data -- and as the tools have become more widely used, > > i am having to update the data more and more frequently - which leads > > me to wonder if there has ever been built a tool or online form to > > either dynamically or otherwise update the JSON or XML data? > > > My current workflow is a little painful: i enter data into an excel > > sheet, then send that manually to Babel (tried the Babel service > > version, but it makes the first display quite slow), and then ftp my > > result JSON file over to the host machine. > > > SO -- I would like to develop an interface to directly add to the JSON > > or XML data file from an online form. > > Has anyone done this or can share some thoughts and ideas about how > > to? > > > thanks > > -k -- 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.
