Re: write-once, re-use elsewhere theasurus tools

Al,

have you get cvs access to our server yet?
I've started checking in code I'm working on - it's hopefully got the 
pluggable-innable approach we're after. I'm going to develop the results 
object modelling - which is going to be especially important re the 
development of a web browser 'frontend' to the the service - I think you 
were interested in developing this bit yourself, right?

Nikki

--On Tuesday, May 04, 2004 14:16:16 +0100 "Miles, AJ (Alistair) " 
<A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk> wrote:

>
> Just to pick up and emphasise this comment from Dan ...
>
>> What we can do, though, is take these
>> as use cases for evaluating the _machine_ interface defined
>> in the SKOS
>> API. We can ask ourselves whether such a UI could be built against
>> any/all SKOS servers that meet the API. This opens up the prospect of
>> write-once, re-use elsewhere thesaurus browsing tools...
>>
>
> Having re-usable thesaurus browsing components, esp. for web pages, is for
> me a major driver of the SKOS work - I'd really like to be able to support
> the d-lib & thesaurus communities, where folks are currently putting a lot
> of energy into implementing bespoke UIs that talk to their uniquely
> structured database and hence aren't re-usable by anyone else.
>
> Whether the current SKOS API supports the full range of functionality
> required by thesaurus browsing and searching components is the acid test
> for the API, and this requirement is a major driver for it's continued
> development.  So comments and descriptions of what a thesaurus browser
> ought to be able to do are very valuable here.
>
> Just a final word, it really is astonishing to me the extent to which some
> large organisations seem to be implementing large and monolithic
> information systems end-to-end, with little or no thought as to how they
> can unplug and reuse some of these components in the future as systems
> and requirements evolve, or make them available outside their own
> organisation as part of a shared infrastructure or distributed service.
> I reckon there's a big opportunity for some very simple and yet very
> valuable work to be done in this area.
>
> Al.
>
>



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Received on Tuesday, 4 May 2004 09:28:08 UTC