- From: David Huynh <dfhuynh@alum.mit.edu>
- Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:53:23 -0700
- To: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- CC: public-lod@w3.org, semantic-web@w3c.org
Dan Brickley wrote: > Ah, we're an excitable bunch around here ;) > > Regardless of whether these data URLs are available, the UI work is > exciting and I'm glad you shared it with the W3C lists. If others have > smart ideas for visualising and navigating RDFesque datasets (whether > closed or open by various definitions), let me be clear: they're very > welcome to post them to semantic-web@w3.org. I hope our enthusiasm > hereabouts for open data doesn't discourage people for sharing > innovative UI ideas. We need all the help we can get! :) > > In similar vein, it's well worth SW people poking around > http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/ > http://processing.org/ and similar, ... the fact that these don't > (yet....) natively support RDF is no reason not to learn from them... Thanks, Dan! I think that even small things can make the SW effort feel more welcoming, and more open, toward people with less interest in data modeling and data linking. For example, the ISWC conferences have been using a page layout format of one column 4.5" wide (wasting 4" on a letter-size page). Most screenshots are landscape-oriented. So people who want to show screenshots in ISWC papers either have to resize their screenshots to unreadable sizes, or crop them. If there's an opportunity to adopt a two column layout, allowing screenshots to stretch across the columns, that would make someone like me a little happier publishing UI work to ISWC. :-) Maybe folks on these lists who are interested in publishing UI work to ISWC can vote if they want a more accommodating page layout... Thanks for listening! David
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