- From: Thomas B. Passin <tpassin@comcast.net>
- Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 09:08:44 -0500
- To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
[<tony_hammond@harcourt.com>] > > I wondered what people think of using QNames for properties in (especially) > SVG graphics and tucking away the URIs into XLinks. See: > > http://www2.elsevier.co.uk/~tony/cookbook/ > > Resource URIs are also truncated (but linked), as are literals. This allows > for more detail to be compressed into a single screen shot. As an example > the "Extended Article" SVG is much easier to read than if it had been > decorated with full-blown URIs. Would be neat if some of the other > GraphViz-based tools (Validator, IsaViz, etc) supported an option to render > in this more compressed form. Seems to me that the property URIs are not of > primary interest to the *human* reader but instead deflect attention from > the main subject matter. > Displayable labels are always a problem. The obvious thing to do is to have a "label" property and display that if it is present, but if that convention isn't followed, what should be displayed? The Topic Map people have paid a lot of attention to naming and labeling, with scoped names and variant names. The work could be used for RDF- another convention, of course. Cheers, Tom P
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