RE: Simile Deliverables review; apr 27 deadline

> Hmm... This must have a call I missed. But I very much support the 
> acquisition of collections which SIMILE can be publicly demonstrated.

> The simple demonstration of using Longwell to navigate the merge of 
> W3C's Technical Report metadata and Organization metadata has been 
> extremely helpful in providing wider audiences a better understanding 
> of some of the issues Simile is addressing.

> http://www.w3.org/2004/04/simile/browse/index.html

Hi Eric,

Thanks for bringing this to my attention, I had seen a screenshot of this
that Ryan had circulated, but didn't realise it was up and running. Well
done Ryan!

The only thing is my original intention with Longwell was to definitely not
have any naked URIs in the UI! I think they are ok for RDF savvy folks, but
not for the rest of the world.

So I would be very keen to try to improve how the data is rendered. Some of
this can be done by rules processing - for example one potentially useful
rule would be if a document is a version of another resource, then that
documents inherits the title of that resource so for example
http://www.w3.org/1999/08/WD-SVG-19990812 would get the title Scalable
Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.0 Specification. However unfortunately not all
abstract specs have titles, so that wouldn't solve everything. Another rule
would propagate titles the other way, e.g. there is one version of
http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-concepts/ that does have a title, so if an object
does not have a title, and another object is a version of it and does have
the title, then add the title to the first object. 

From the user point of view, I think there are some more useful possible
facets e.g. year (this would involve some syntatic processing to extract the
information from date). Contributor and author would also be useful, but
Longwell has a difficulty dealing with bNodes at the moment which I think we
need to fix.

Dr Mark H. Butler
Research Scientist, HP Labs Bristol
http://www-uk.hpl.hp.com/people/marbut

Received on Thursday, 29 April 2004 11:05:59 UTC