- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 18:50:50 -0500 (EST)
- To: Guus Schreiber <schreiber@cs.vu.nl>
- Cc: RDF Interest Group <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Guus Schreiber wrote: >Charles McCathieNevile wrote: > >OK. I will make the timeline for task forces 2-6 months. Having said >that, I think it would be good to focus on "low-hanging fruit": things >that can realistically be achieved in a short time frame. Fair enough. >> >> An interesting aspect of work for this group might also be in the >> visualisation and manipulation of Semantic Web information - although it is >> unlikely that we could produce Recommendation Track work along these lines, >> exploring different ways of representing the information to users might be a >> great help in developing tools that people other than specialists can use >> with comfort. One interesting aspect of this work is in developing >> representations of queries, that can be formulated by people without learning >> a syntax designed for a machine. While XML, N3 and so on are human-readable >> by comparison to compiled java byte-code, they are still for the technically >> inclined who are prepared to learn them - potentially excluding a vast number >> of creators or users of RDF applications. > >Sounds very interesting, but unless there is some particular method that >has been worked on and used, it is likely to be too much >research-oriented and therefore outside the scope of this WG. BTW I see >the work on the relationship to UML as visualization support. Indeed UML might be considered. There are also the approaches to presenting information used in IsaViz/RDFAuthor/GraphViz etc, presenting things as tables, etc. I was thinking more in terms of collectng the different approaches in use - something that might take a month - as a useful source of ideas for ways to build interfaces. cheers Chaals
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