- From: Marja-Riitta Koivunen <marja@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 19:46:03 -0400
- To: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>, RDF Interest Group <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
Here is a link to the x3d work (the new xml based vrml standard). http://www.web3d.org/x3d.html Marja At 06:38 PM 4/4/00 -0400, Dan Brickley wrote: > >Quick note to say thanks for the interest in RDFViz, the GraphViz based >tool for laying out RDF graphs for display. > > http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/discovery/rdf-dev/rudolf/rdfviz/ > >Thanks to the work of Stephen North and the other GraphViz folk, RDFViz >can now generate simple SVG and VRML visualisations of RDF data graphs. >I didn't do much to take advantage of this for RDFViz except provide a >web-based wrapper for the -TSVG and -TVRML command line flags :-) > >When I'm happy with a version 1.0 of RDFViz I'll get a copy hosted on a >W3C box and bundle up the scripts. In the meantime I was hoping to set >people thinking about RDF, SVG, VRML... All of these can be represented in >XML (not sure about status of the VRML in XML work though). We can go >to SVG and VRML from XML/RDF data graphs (either using RDF 1.0 syntax, >other RDF-like syntaxes such as SOAP, or XSLT transformations. Question >is: can we go the other way, ie. extract the abstract structure from an >SVG or VRML diagram...? > >This is where Semantic Web screenscraping [1] meets Web Accessibility... >Once everyone uses XML for everything, what more can we say about the >abstract structures that are common across our various uses of >XML? eg. Could an organisational chart in SVG or VRML be self-describing >enough to allow applications to extract the RDF model it represents? > >Dan (hoping to prompt a reply from the WAI folks...) > > > >[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Mar/0103.html > >
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