Re: PiggyBank install feedback

From: Stefano Mazzocchi <stefanom_at_mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 16:20:14 -0700

MacKenzie Smith wrote:
> From a usability perspective, my opinion is that there should be 3 stages:
>
> 1. collect -- combines 1 and 2. I don't see why anyone would go to the
> bother of collecting a bunch of RDF that they didn't want to save beyond
> the browser session... what's the use case for that?

Do this simple test: go on simile.mit.edu and click on the data coin....
a lot of that information might even be anonymous nodes that you have no
idea what they are.

Personally, I save a fraction of the data I collect, so I would be very
much against this.

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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
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