Re: SIMILE work

Dear Mark,

The three tasks you suggest sound quite reasonable.  I am already 
working on the second (generating a UI via a web browser).   Upon the 
advice of students familiar with the previous attempt, I'm starting 
again from scratch.  Currently, I am coding methods that will render the 
Haystack display in HTML.  Later, we will have to decide how to manage 
communication between Haystack and the browser, in particular, to handle 
changes in the display triggered either by the user (e.g., by mouse 
movements in the native Haystack UI) or by the underlying data store 
(e.g., because agents have entered new data in the store).  Also, we 
will have to decide how to handle special purpose UI elements that are 
implemented in a mixture of Adenine and Java (e.g., the calendar 
application) rather then entirely in Adenine.  However, we need not 
solve the general problem right away, because we can develop UI elements 
for SIMILE in a way that facilitates the use of a web browser.

I will start taking a look at both the Artstor data and the email 
discussions about canonicalization of creator names.  I may not be able 
to develop much of an opinion about the issues here for a few weeks, 
because I will be out of the country for ten days starting this weekend. 
 However, I will still be checking my email while I am away.

Regards,

Steve

Received on Wednesday, 5 November 2003 09:58:35 UTC