Re: Web Charts

This paper we wrote might be relevant, since it shares similar ideas

https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1034/LeboEtAl_COLD2013.pdf


On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 11:16 PM Martin Georg Skjæveland <martige@ifi.uio.no>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> this reminds me of something I made a while back:
>
>   https://mgskjaeveland.github.io/sgvizler/
>
> which has been taken further by someone else to
>
>   https://bordercloud.github.io/sgvizler2/
>
> Not as sophisticated as your describe, I think, but along the same
> lines.
>
> Martin
>
> On Wed, 2023-05-10 at 21:20 +0000, Adam Sobieski wrote:
> > Semantic Web Interest Group,
> >
> > Hello. I’m not sure which other W3C mailing lists, if any, might also
> > be interested in these ideas but, as they involve Semantic Web
> > technologies, I'm writing here, today, to share some ideas pertaining
> > to charts-related markup which could be utilized from HTML.
> > Starting simply, we might consider that charts have: (1) data, (2)
> > scripting logic with which to produce document structure from that
> > data, and (3) a means of styling the produced document structure for
> > presentation and display.
> >
> > <chart version="1.0">
> >   <data type="application/rdf+xml" >...</data>
> >  <script type="text/javascript" src="..." />
> >  <style type="text/css" src="..." />
> > </chart>
> >
> > Next, we might consider that charts' data could be stored in remote
> > resources.
> >
> > <chart version="1.0">
> >   <data type="application/rdf+xml" src="..." />
> >   <script type="text/javascript" src="..." />
> >   <style type="text/css" src="..." />
> > </chart>
> >
> > Next, towards more advanced scenarios, we might consider that charts
> > might, instead of having static data provided, obtain dynamic data by
> > querying service endpoints, e.g., using SPARQL.
> >
> > <chart version="1.0">
> >   <query endpoint="..." type="application/sparql-query">...</query>
> >  <script type="text/javascript" src="..." />
> >   <style type="text/css" src="..." />
> > </chart>
> >
> > We might also consider specifying some attributes for these query-
> > related elements which pertain to the refreshing of data, e.g., for
> > indicating whether a chart was user-refreshable (per context menus),
> > whether it refreshed on a timer, and/or any other behaviors
> > pertaining to its input data.
> >
> > Any thoughts on these preliminary ideas pertaining to "Web charts"?
> > Are these initial ideas possible with existing technologies, e.g.,
> > Web Components?
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Adam Sobieski
> > http://www.phoster.com
> >
> > P.S.: I thought of these ideas while updating theWikianswersproject
> > proposal: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikianswers .
> >
>
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