Re: SKOS Play ! a free service to visualize SKOS data

Excellent choice of using Web Standards components such as D3.js and SVG.

One suggestion... for the interactive visualizations, give the user a
slider that can increase or decrease the nodes and text size, since they
are quite small by default. (some of us have to squint on netbooks and
others have fading LCD panels... :-)

Kudos Thomas !


On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 2:51 AM, Thomas Francart
<thomas.francart@sparna.fr>wrote:

> Hello
>
> I am pleased to announce here the availability of SKOS Play [1], a free
> application to render and visualize thesaurus, taxonomies or controlled
> vocabularies expressed in SKOS. SKOS Play can generate alphabetical index
> or hierarchical trees of SKOS data in HTML or PDF documents. It also
> integrates with d3js [2] to provide some graphical interactive
> representations of the data.
>
> Example SKOS data are included in the application for you to try : Eurovoc
> Thesaurus, Unesco Thesaurus, W Thesaurus (french national archives), and
> subject list from the New York Times ([3][4][5][6]). The application is
> currently limited to 5000 concepts due to hardware limitations.
>
> Your contributions are important : community feedback is most welcomed at
> [7], the code is open-source and accessible at [8]. Fell free to get in
> touch with me if you want additionnal information. You can help in
> reporting bugs, translating the application, suggesting appropriate
> visualisations, or contributing to the code.
>
> Future improvements to SKOS Play may include simple thesaurus alignment
> rendering, dynamically following linked concepts through their URIs, and
> additionnal visualizations.
>
> Hope you like it !
> Thomas
>
> [1] : SKOS Play : http://labs.sparna.fr/skos-play
> [2] : d3js : http://d3js.org/
> [3] : Eurovoc Thesaurus : http://eurovoc.europa.eu/
> [4] : Unesco Thesaurus : http://skos.um.es/unescothes/ and
> http://databases.unesco.org/thesaurus/
> [5] : W Thesaurus :
> http://www.archivesdefrance.culture.gouv.fr/gerer/classement/normes-outils/thesaurus/
>  [6] : New York Times subjects : http://data.nytimes.com/
> [7] : SKOS Play feedback page :
> http://www.google.com/moderator/#15/e=209fff&t=209fff.40
> [8] : SKOS Play source code :
> https://bitbucket.org/tfrancart/sparna/overview
>
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