(catching back up on this thread) On Apr 19, 2011, at 4:07 PM, John Callahan wrote:
> 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. Nice exhibit! ;) > 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. John, thanks for the independent confirmation regarding new features/enhancements in Exhibit3. It's good to hear from many perspectives we seem to be on the right path. > - Editing would be useful, as long as the changes are propagated back to the > data source (Google Spreadsheet, json doc.) Yeah... it's that last 'propagation' bit thats tricky. ;) > 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. Bingo ;) Building these interfaces to the specific end points you mentioned is out of scope for this phase of work, but thats exactly the direction we're headed. > 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? Recollection provides one example of a GUI exhibit building, event notification, exhibit embedding, data transformation and augmentation services (via akara http://akara.info) etc. Exhibit 3 will provide increased scalability for larger data sets and views, etc.. As you've suggested, these are indeed designed to be complementary projects. From an architecture perspective, they (Recollection, Akara, Exhibit3) are being built to play off each others strengths while maintaining independent code-bases and stand alone utility. > The code for recollection will also be released as open source. Yep. -- Eric Miller President, Zepheira "The Art of Data" http://zepheira.com/ tel:+1.617.395.0229 > > > - 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. -- 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]. 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