- From: Stefano Mazzocchi <stefanom@mit.edu>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:53:43 -0700
- To: SIMILE General <general@simile.mit.edu>, semantic-web@w3.org
On behalf of the SIMILE project, I'm proud and happy to announce the release of version 2.4 of the Longwell RDF on-line faceted browser. Longwell is the presentation engine that powers most of our RDF browsing tools (such as Piggy Bank and Semantic Bank) as well as our demos for semantic interoperability of metadata and the conference banks (such as for ISWC 2005), but it was never release standalone because we didn't think it was usable enough. After some substantial rewrites in both the internals and the usage methodology, and substantial profiling and memory-leak analysis, we are now confident that Longwell can be a valuable tool for anybody that works with RDF data as a way to easily browse and evaluate RDF datasets. Built around the second generation of the Sesame triple store, Longwell provides you with pluggable and extensible "configurations". For example, a Semantic Bank and a Conference Bank are now repackaged inside of Longwell as configurations and it's easy to modify them and adapt them to your needs. This release of Longwell is also the first to embed the Fresnel presentation ontology for RDF, which is used by Longwell to style the individual data objects. For more information, for links to the download section or for links to live demos where you can try Longwell online, visit the Longwell home page at: http://simile.mit.edu/longwell/ Happy RDF Browsing! -- Stefano Mazzocchi Digital Libraries Research Group Research Scientist Massachusetts Institute of Technology E25-131, 77 Massachusetts Ave skype: stefanomazzocchi Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA email: stefanom at mit . edu -------------------------------------------------------------------
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