Re: Web Charts

Hi, 

this reminds me of something I made a while back:

  https://mgskjaeveland.github.io/sgvizler/


which has been taken further by someone else to

  https://bordercloud.github.io/sgvizler2/


Not as sophisticated as your describe, I think, but along the same
lines.

Martin

On Wed, 2023-05-10 at 21:20 +0000, Adam Sobieski wrote:
> Semantic Web Interest Group,
> 
> Hello. I’m not sure which other W3C mailing lists, if any, might also
> be interested in these ideas but, as they involve Semantic Web
> technologies, I'm writing here, today, to share some ideas pertaining
> to charts-related markup which could be utilized from HTML. 
> Starting simply, we might consider that charts have: (1) data, (2)
> scripting logic with which to produce document structure from that
> data, and (3) a means of styling the produced document structure for
> presentation and display. 
> 
> <chart version="1.0"> 
>   <data type="application/rdf+xml" >...</data> 
>  <script type="text/javascript" src="..." /> 
>  <style type="text/css" src="..." /> 
> </chart> 
> 
> Next, we might consider that charts' data could be stored in remote
> resources.
> 
> <chart version="1.0"> 
>   <data type="application/rdf+xml" src="..." /> 
>   <script type="text/javascript" src="..." /> 
>   <style type="text/css" src="..." /> 
> </chart> 
> 
> Next, towards more advanced scenarios, we might consider that charts
> might, instead of having static data provided, obtain dynamic data by
> querying service endpoints, e.g., using SPARQL. 
> 
> <chart version="1.0"> 
>   <query endpoint="..." type="application/sparql-query">...</query> 
>  <script type="text/javascript" src="..." /> 
>   <style type="text/css" src="..." /> 
> </chart> 
>  
> We might also consider specifying some attributes for these query-
> related elements which pertain to the refreshing of data, e.g., for
> indicating whether a chart was user-refreshable (per context menus),
> whether it refreshed on a timer, and/or any other behaviors
> pertaining to its input data. 
> 
> Any thoughts on these preliminary ideas pertaining to "Web charts"?
> Are these initial ideas possible with existing technologies, e.g.,
> Web Components?
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Adam Sobieski
> http://www.phoster.com 
> 
> P.S.: I thought of these ideas while updating theWikianswersproject
> proposal: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikianswers .
>

Received on Thursday, 11 May 2023 06:10:21 UTC