- From: Thomas Baker <tom@tombaker.org>
- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:54:34 -0400
- To: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Cc: public-rdf-wg@w3.org
Sandro wrote: > It all makes sense to me now. It's so simple: > > http://www.w3.org/2011/rdf-wg/wiki/Layers The Layers metaphor fits nicely with the Lens (or View or whatever) metaphor. In (simplified) optics, a lens is a layer (of glass) placed between the viewer and an object. Tom On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 02:30:54PM -0400, Kingsley Idehen wrote: > >>>What I like about "lens" is that a lens, almost by definition, somehow alters > >>>-- magnifies, distorts, refracts, corrects, whatever -- the view. As I see it, > >>>people are seeing the context from a particular (point of) "view", > >>>"perspective", or "angle", but they are seeing it _through_ the "lens". It is > >>>this instrument -- the lens -- that interests us, not the thinking underlying > >>>the design of the lens. > >... > > > >>How about: "context lenses" ? > >> > >>A context oriented lens is basically a specific kind of view. > >Hey, that's not bad! Together with "corrective lenses", "historical lenses", > >and "zoom lenses" -- without getting _too_ fancy with the typology -- I see the > >makings of a halfway entertaining presentation. > > > >Tom > > > >P.S. With "a specific kind of view", I don't think you mean to imply that > >"context lens" is somehow formally a sub-class of some broader notion of view, > >do you? Just checking. > > Not formally, more about an "application cue" which can be grounded > in the data via a relation. Basically, this relation asserts that > you look at (or view) the dataset in a certain way etc.. > > > > -- > > 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 > > > > > > -- Tom Baker <tom@tombaker.org>
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