AW: software to generate lod clouds

Knud, Kingsley:

Thank you for the hints. Since OmniGraffle is restricted to the Mac environment, I used yED Graph Editor (http://www.yworks.com) which works with graphml. So I can use a template to produce the nodes and edges, and the (organic, hierarchical etc.) layout tools of yED to build a layout to a large extent automatically.

In case somebody feels the same needs, I post the template here.

Cheers, Joachim

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<graphml xmlns="http://graphml.graphdrawing.org/xmlns/graphml" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:y="http://www.yworks.com/xml/graphml" xsi:schemaLocation="http://graphml.graphdrawing.org/xmlns/graphml http://www.yworks.com/xml/schema/graphml/1.0/ygraphml.xsd">

  <key for="node" id="d0" yfiles.type="nodegraphics"/>
  <key attr.name="url" attr.type="string" for="node" id="d1"/>
  <key attr.name="description" attr.type="string" for="node" id="d2"/>
  <key for="edge" id="d3" yfiles.type="edgegraphics"/>
  <key attr.name="url" attr.type="string" for="edge" id="d4"/>
  <key attr.name="description" attr.type="string" for="edge" id="d5"/>
  <key for="graphml" id="d6" yfiles.type="resources"/>

  <graph id="G" edgedefault="directed">

<tmpl_loop name='nodes_loop'>
    <node id="<tmpl_var name='id'>">
      <data key="d0">
        <y:ShapeNode>
          <y:Geometry height="<tmpl_var name='diameter'>" width="<tmpl_var name='diameter'>"/>
          <y:Fill color="<tmpl_var name='color'>" transparent="false"/>
          <y:BorderStyle color="#000000" type="line" width="1.0"/>
          <y:NodeLabel alignment="center" autoSizePolicy="content" fontFamily="Dialog"
              fontSize="12" fontStyle="plain"><tmpl_var name='label'></y:NodeLabel>
          <y:Shape type="ellipse"/>
        </y:ShapeNode>
      </data>
      <data key="d1"></data>
      <data key="d2"></data>
    </node>
</tmpl_loop>

<tmpl_loop name='edges_loop'>
    <edge source="<tmpl_var name='from'>" target="<tmpl_var name='to'>">
      <data key="d3">
        <y:PolyLineEdge>
          <y:LineStyle color="#000000" type="line" width="1.0"/>
          <y:Arrows source="short" target="short"/>
          <y:BendStyle smoothed="false"/>
        </y:PolyLineEdge>
      </data>
      <data key="d4"/>
      <data key="d5"/>
    </edge>
</tmpl_loop>

  </graph>
</graphml>



> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Knud Hinnerk Möller [mailto:knud.moeller@deri.org] 
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 20. Mai 2009 15:06
> An: Neubert Joachim
> Cc: public-lod@w3.org
> Betreff: Re: software to generate lod clouds
> 
> Hi Joachim,
> 
> all I know is that the original LOD cloud figure on the ESW 
> wiki [1] is made with OmniGraffle [2]. Whether or not there 
> is some automatic process involved I don't know.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Knud
> 
> [1] 
> http://esw.w3.org/topic/SweoIG/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/Li
> nkingOpenData
> [2] http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/OmniGraffle/
> 
> On 20.05.2009, at 13:20, Neubert Joachim wrote:
> 
> > Hi, all you creators of these fancy LOD clouds,
> >
> > which software did you use to accomplish this?
> >
> > I suppose there are more people like me who are drawing outlines of 
> > their special corner of the cloud (library metadata and 
> economics, in 
> > my case). It could make sense to exchange tools, and maybe 
> data also.
> >
> > Perhaps somebody has already built a tool which transforms a set of 
> > voID descriptions to input for a layout program for final manual 
> > finishing?
> >
> > Cheers, Joachim
> > --
> > Joachim Neubert
> > IT Development
> > German National Library of Economics (ZBW)
> >
> >
> 
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