Re: data integration - how to make a portal

Danny Ayers wrote:
>> In fact: I wonder whether this outlook couldn't/shouldn't be 
>> combined with some sort of an exhibit type outlook (faceted 
>> stuff, that is). Ie, I could click on OWL, on, say, book, and 
>> some other stuff to get to a specific book quickly....
>>
>> The problem with exhibit is that it does not work really work 
>> with RDF data yet in the sense that one cannot easily combine 
>> it with dynamic data (essentially sparql queries)....
>>     
>
> But Longwell can!
>
> I've only personally tried the simplest configuration, which really is
> simple, it works pretty much out of the box. Drop some RDF/XML files in
> a particular directory and fire it up, voila, facetted browsing. For the
> portal app I imagine what would be required would be to hook its Sesame
> store to some kind of datasource management layer. 
>
> I believe there are already quite a few customised views of e.g. typed
> resources available, if anything else was needed I'm willing to bet the
> SIMILE folks would be happy to help out.
>
> http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Longwell
>
> online demos:
>
> http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Longwell_Demos
>   
Danny,

How do you get from Longwell to RDF exposed via SPARQL?  In short, how 
does this work when RDF and Longwell don't share locality?

We already have RDF that is SPARQL accessible. The SPARQL Protocol 
allows us to do whatever with the results (including XSLT 
post-processing). The port remains a post processing of SPARQL results 
task. It isn't more than that.

Kingsley
> Cheers,
> Danny.
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Received on Saturday, 21 July 2007 14:36:22 UTC