Re: RDF to HTML templating

Thank you!

Wes Turner
On Dec 18, 2013 5:39 PM, "Henry Story" <henry.story@bblfish.net> wrote:

>
> On 18 Dec 2013, at 23:59, Wes Turner <wes.turner@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Again, I believe https://github.com/antoniogarrote/backbone does almost
> exactly what you are describing in regards to creating rdf  changesets from
> user-supplied input.
>
>
> Thanks Wes, I'll look at that. We were thinking of using Antonio's
> backbone lib anyway. In fact he came
> over to the "Weave the Web We Want" workshop we had at Mozilla in Paris
> late last month, [1]
> and we worked with it for a couple of days, but it's still very early
> stages and there were a few bugs.
> So we continued with rdflib for a bit which I had studied in more detail
> over the past year.
>
> We probably don't yet need much SPARQL support. Pointed Graphs seem like a
> very simple abstraction that can
> do most of what we need. It also works very well with the notion of
> Observables monad from the Rx JS library
> as shown here:
>
>
> https://github.com/stample/rww-play/blob/withPointedGraph/public/ldp/lib/pointedGraph.js#L68
>
> This allows us to follow links and skip into different graphs, in an
> asynchronous ways  which can be very useful.
>
> I'll look at Antonio's code more in detail. If I can get to the point of
> mastering it enough
> so that I can fix the bugs myself then that will be definitevely something
> I'll use.
>
> TimBL's rdflib is interesting initially because he has all the pieces for
> fetching graphs, and it keeps
> the HTTP metadata in the default store, using an ontology he developed for
> this purpose. This
> allows the the framework to know if it needs to update a remote graph when
> representations are outdated,
> and it would make it easy to do conditional GETs, PUTs etc... This could
> easily be ported to
> RDFStore I suppose, but I thought I'd first make sure I'd understand
> TimBLs thinking in detail first.
>
> Thanks again for the tip,
>
> Henry
>
>
> [1] https://github.com/stample/wiki/wiki/Weave-the-web-we-want
>
> Wes Turner
>
>
> Social Web Architect
> http://bblfish.net/
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