Thanks for keeping Exhibit going. At my university, we use it quite a lot. (The latest site I know of is at: http://www.udel.edu/udbooks/) It's good to see a path forward for the project.
>From my experience, and form talking with others around here putting up Exhibits, the primary requested new features/enhancements in 3.0 would be: - Scalable to a larger number of records. 100K would satisfy most uses I know of (which I'm sure will change once it's available.) - Keeping state, either through a URL or by clicking away from the Exhibit and then coming back. (this is probably the most often complaint I get from users) - Documentation for non-trivial functions. It's common to want to process the data before it gets displayed in a facet, lens, or view, which I've accomplished creating simple mapping functions inside the Exhibit framework. Documentation on adding custom mapping functions and how to use existing expressions and functions is needed. - Editing would be useful, as long as the changes are propagated back to the data source (Google Spreadsheet, json doc.) I also agree with many of the other suggestions from previous posters. For the Exhibit server (staged mode), would the Data Services support relational databases as a data source, such as Postgres, MySQL, sqlite, maybe Oracle? Even if server side scripts would need to be modified, the ability to expose a table (or more) as an Exhibit would be great. Also, I just viewed a presentation on a project of the Library of Congress called Recollection, http://recollection.zepheira.com/. Recollection has a very nice GUI Exhibit Builder, with the ability for them to host your own exhibits, and more features to come. Since Exhibit 3.0 project is partially supported by LOC with a partnerships with Zepheria, is there any co-development going on between these two projects? The code for recollection will also be released as open source. - John *********************************** John Callahan, Research Scientist Delaware Geological Survey University of Delaware URL: http://www.dgs.udel.edu ******************************* On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 10:00 PM, mackenzie <[email protected]> wrote: > Yep, you are correct -- Timeline (i.e. the standalone widget) is not > included in the Exhibit 3 project. But the timeline view inside > Exhibit will be updated to work with the new Exhibit framework... > > MacKenzie > > On Mar 7, 7:11 am, mwra <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Feb 22, 3:09 am, mackenzie <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi wjw, > > > > > Unfortunately, changing current Exhibit display widgets is outside the > > > scope of the Exhibit3 project since we have to focus on the stuff we > > > promised the funder. > > > > Do I read that correctly as to mean Timeline is not being updated as > > part of Exhibit 3? I'm looking into another Timeline-based project and > > just wondered if it was about to chnge (no big deal either way). I do > > recall seeing reference to an HTML5-based re-write. > > > > Regards > > > > Mark Anderson > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
