Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
> 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!
Thanks for David (Karger) for forwarding this.
People, find David's awesome Piggy-bank RDF Firefox extension at
http://people.csail.mit.edu/people/dfhuynh/research/downloads/piggy-bank/
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Stefano Mazzocchi
Research Scientist Digital Libraries Research Group
Massachusetts Institute of Technology location: E25-131C
77 Massachusetts Ave telephone: +1 (617) 253-1096
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 email: stefanom at mit . edu
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