RE: Piggy-Bank feedback

From: Dailey, Nathaniel \(Contr.\) <"Dailey,>
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 11:59:18 -0500

I wonder what happens if you take it to SWOOGLE ?

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From: DuCharme, Bob (LNG-CHO) [mailto:bob.ducharme_at_lexisnexis.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 11:56 AM
To: 'general_at_simile.mit.edu'
Subject: Piggy-Bank feedback


It looks great, and the step-by-step "Have Fun with It" part is very useful. It's the kind of thing that most free software is sorely lacking as a way to get to step 2 with the software.
 
I'm sure the "Developer's Guide" is a big project itself, but just a few paragraphs there as well will be really helpful. Specifically, while the User's Guide refers to "semantic information tidbits ... that Piggy-Bank retrieves from links embedded within the web page you're currently viewing" and browsing "to a web-page with semantic data," having a little more detail about what Piggy-Bank looks for and what it does with it will encourage more people to add such metadata. (Woo-hoo! An app that checks for and does something with RDF metadata accompanying a web page!)
 
My guess based on a bit of experimenting: Piggy-Bank looks for link elements in a web page's head element that have a _at_type value of "application/rss+xml" or "application/rdf+xml" and loads the triples that it finds in the resource identified by the _at_href attribute. Does it do anything with any other attributes of the link element, such as @rel and @title?
 
You might want to start a Wiki page or something where people can add URLs of web pages that have metadata that looks good in Piggy-Bank, and then you could add that Wiki to the list of three links on the "This webpage contains no information tidbits that can be saved" default sidebar.
 
Bob
 
Received on Tue Feb 01 2005 - 16:59:01 EST