- From: Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 16:13:17 +0000
- To: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- CC: "<public-lod@w3.org>" <public-lod@w3.org>
Thanks Kingsley. Yeah, OK, you got me - anything is better than vi :-) Trouble is, of course, many of my friends don't have text editors. On 7 Aug 2013, at 14:35, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote: > On 8/7/13 9:11 AM, Hugh Glaser wrote: >> On 7 Aug 2013, at 13:26, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> >> wrote: >>>> <snip /> >>>> Personally I would love to have something better than vi to edit my FOAF, much as I love it :-) >>> It now exists :-) >>> >> Ooo, go on Kingsley, give me hint as to what it is? :-) >> Hugh >> >> > Any editor or text editing tool that works for you. The file create, save, and share pattern is what compliments this approach. Thus, create, edit, and then save to your local (or shared) drive (worst case) and then publish to the Web via your own Web Server or via 3rd part storage provider services. > > Editing Turtle content by hand works well for little chunks of Linked Data. Spreadsheet tools also work well too for producing CSV that's (modulo header) Turtle or N-Triples etc.. > > > The pieces: > > 1. Text Editing Tool -- whatever suits your user and usage profile > 2. Web Publication -- via your own Web Server or third party services (note Norman's example re how to re-route to your down domain). > > Personally, at the presentation layer, I don't have any notion of "better" or "best" since I've always seen that pursuit as being impossible for humans targets. Basically, this is a classic "horses for courses" type challenge that's best addressed by infrastructure dexterity as exemplified by the architecture of the world wide web (AWWW). > > Data, Context, and Interaction (DCI [1] pattern which builds on the MVC pattern [2] ) should be loosely coupled. > > Links: > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data,_context_and_interaction > [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model–view–controller . > > -- > > Regards, > > Kingsley Idehen > Founder & CEO > OpenLink Software > Company Web: http://www.openlinksw.com > Personal Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen > Twitter/Identi.ca handle: @kidehen > Google+ Profile: https://plus.google.com/112399767740508618350/about > LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen > > > > >
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