- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 20:20:03 +0200
- To: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- CC: Daniel Schwabe <dschwabe@inf.puc-rio.br>, David Huynh <dfhuynh@alum.mit.edu>, Linked Data community <public-lod@w3.org>, semantic-web@w3.org
On 30/5/09 15:50, Kingsley Idehen wrote: > Danbri: have you had time to work on the generic faceted browsing spec > we discussed a few weeks ago? Even a rough dump Wiki-style will do re. > getting all interested parties engaged. Nothing written up yet, but am just back from a digital libraries conference (http://www.slideshare.net/danbri/understanding-the-standards-gap) which left me with a definite sense it's worth doing. And also that RDFesque thinking is much more visible throughout the library scene than say 10 years ago (FRBR and related efforts). I'll try to bash something into wiki or blog in next week or so... Basic idea in a nutshell is that SPARQL is great for data access, but there may be additional query-oriented data structures worth spec'ing based around the set-oriented navigation very nicely articulated by David Huynh in the Parallax screencast. And that if such a structure could be exchanged between systems we could hope that the navigational paradigm it supports could be found in various concrete UIs, and that the results of exploring data this way could become useful and standard artifacts in the public Web, rather than just bookmarks within some specific system. cheers, Dan
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