David Huynh wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> From David Karger's suggestion, I've adapted Longwell to serve as the
> browsing interface for RDF data collected through my Mozilla Firefox
> extension. This adaptation might be of use to someone else, too, for the
> following changes:
>
> 1. Several "facades" are supported simultaneously for browsing data
> coming from more than one ontology. A facade is a configuration for
> browsing, including a set of facets, a set of properties to index, a set
> of classes to display, a set of views. From this definition, each
> Longwell server currently has one facade only.
nice!
> 2. Facet values can be literals. (This might help with Steve Hughes'
> problem as documented in the thread "Data discussion".)
way cool!
> 3. There is support for browsing all terms indexed by Lucene (in
> addition to free text search).
yeah, this could be useful.
> 4. There is support for sorting the search results.
oh, cool
> 5. Data can be added on the fly to the corpus by just browsing Firefox
> to RDF/XML or N3 data files, or to webpages that link to such files.
outstanding!
> To customize this extension so that it understands one's own ontology,
> modify the config.n3 file in this directory:
>
> [drive]:\Documents and Settings\[user id]\Application
> Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[profile id]\piggy-bank\system
David, I really like everything you mentioned... but I think you forgot
to tell us where to find it :-)
Ah, if you want to commit it directly to the svn tree, I'll be glad to
give you commit access.
Thanks much for your effort, it's very appreciated!
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Stefano Mazzocchi
Research Scientist Digital Libraries Research Group
Massachusetts Institute of Technology location: E25-131C
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Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 email: stefanom at mit . edu
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