RE: Disco Hyperdata Browser, a server-side alternative to Tabulator

Hi Chris, Hi Tobias,

Congratulations - this is very cool. Sure enough I have a question... :)

(How) Does Disco handle HTTP 303 redirects?

For instance, I have a slash URI for myself [1] upon which content negotiation is performed. User-agents dereferencing this URI will receive a HTTP 303 to either [2] or [3] depending on the content types accepted. This is based on the Best Practices for Publishing RDF Vocabs recipes, and seems to work fine according to my testing.

However, when I first entered my URI into Disco I got the "No Information to Display" error. After I then entered the URI of the RDF description of me at [3], entering [1] again did produce a page of info about me, taken from my RDF description.

So, it seems that my RDF description correctly references my URI, there's just a problem dereferencing slash URIs that are also content negotiated. URIs in the revyu.com space such as [4] are configured in the same way and suffer the same problem.

Are you able to shed any light on this for me? Or have I missed something obvious?

Cheers,

Tom.

[1] http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/tom/
[2] http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/tom/about/html
[3] http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/tom/about/rdf
[4] http://revyu.com/people/martinp/


> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-semweb-ui-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:public-semweb-ui-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Chris Bizer
> Sent: 15 January 2007 16:12
> To: semantic-web@w3.org; semantic_web@googlegroups.com; 
> public-semweb-ui@w3.org
> Cc: Tobias Gauß
> Subject: ANN: Disco Hyperdata Browser, a server-side 
> alternative to Tabulator
> 
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> we have released the Disco - Hyperdata Browser today.
> 
> Disco is a simple browser for navigating the Semantic Web as an 
> unbound set of data sources. The browser renders all 
> information, that 
> it can find on the Semantic Web about a specific resource, as an HTML 
> page. This resource description contains hyperlinks that allow you to 
> navigate between resources. While you move from resource to resource, 
> the browser dynamically retrieves information by dereferencing HTTP 
> URIs and by following rdfs:seeAlso links.
> 
> More information about the browser is found at 
> http://sites.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/suhl/bizer/ng4j/disco/
> 
> As the browser is a server-side application, you can test-drive the 
> browser without installing anything on your machine. To start the 
> browser, just click on http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/rdf_browser/
> 
> You can also follow our example Semantic Web Ride which demonstrates 
> how the Disco browser is used to navigate information about Tim 
> Berners-Lee from different Semantic Web sites 
> http://sites.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/suhl/bizer/ng4j/disco/#example
> 
> Comments, bug reports and suggestions for improving the browser are 
> very welcome.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chris Bizer and Tobias Gauss
> 
> 
> --
> Chris Bizer
> Freie Universität Berlin
> Phone: +49 30 838 54057
> Mail: chris@bizer.de
> Web: www.bizer.de
> 
> 
>

Received on Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:25:26 UTC