David,
I don't think it's confusing, but the locations were incorrect and steps
were missing. I suggest something like this on the
http://simile.mit.edu/piggy-bank/install-screen-scrapers.html page:
Install
To install a screen scraper start from its Semantic Bank page (e.g.
http://simile.mit.edu/bank/bank?command=focus&objectURI=http%3A%2F%2Fpeople.
csail.mit.edu%2Fdfhuynh%2Fresearch%2Fdownloads%2Fscreen-scrapers%23mozilla-a
ddons-list-scraper&). Click the [data coin icon] in the lower right of the
page and wait a moment while the scraper's description is copied to your
computer. Then click the Save button in the lower left, the [disabled gear
icon] should appear in the upper right. Click the [disabled gear icon] in
the upper right to activate the scraper, the icon should be replaced by the
[enabled gear icon].
I'll put this in Jira...
Thanks again,
Brian O.
On 3/14/06 2:02 PM, "David Huynh" <dfhuynh_at_csail.mit.edu> wrote:
> Brian,
>
> After you see the URL changes, you still need to click Save on the
> scraper you want and then the gear icon will appear.
>
> Clicking on the coin icon only brings the data from the Semantic Bank
> into a temporary database on your machine. You then need to permanently
> save a scraper (into your "My Piggy Bank" database) before you can
> activate it. I know, it's confusing and we will try to fix it later.
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
>
> Brian Osborne wrote:
>
>> Jake,
>>
>> OK, so I'm looking at the NCBI Pubmed Screen Scraper page at simile, I click
>> the coin icon on the lower left corner of the window, the URL in the address
>> field on top then reads:
>>
>> http://127.0.0.1:1978/piggy-bank/b2d9186b92baec9dd3e7ec71475ec7bf/model11422
>> 91441072
>>
>> So, it looks like _something_ is happening locally. However, after waiting a
>> few minutes I don't see any disabled gear icons anywhere, and in the lower
>> left the coin icon is gone, nothing there. Did I follow your instructions
>> correctly?
>>
>> Thanks again,
>>
>> Brian O.
>>
>>
>> On 3/14/06 12:39 PM, "jkglenn_at_umich.edu" <jkglenn_at_umich.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Ah, that sound familiar...
>>>
>>> You need to first save the RDF that describes the scrapers before you
>>> can activate them. Click the coin icon first; you should then see the
>>> disabled gear icon appear. Click that to activate the scraper.
>>>
>>> Jake
>>>
>>> Quoting Brian Osborne <osborne1_at_optonline.net>:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Simile group,
>>>>
>>>> Iım a bit perplexed as Iım not seeing the icon or icons that are said to be
>>>> necessary for scraper installation or activation. Let me just say that I
>>>> believe that Piggy Bank is installed as its icon is up there in the toolbar
>>>> and clicking on it shows me the ³My Piggy Bank² page. Thereıs also a Piggy
>>>> Bank sub-menu in Firefoxıs Tool menu. Finally, the ³Browse Tidbits on This
>>>> Page² menu command seems to work, for example, when invoked at the Semantic
>>>> Bank page and I see [data coin icons] on particular pages.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> From the docs at
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> http://simile.mit.edu/piggy-bank/install-screen-scrapers.html:
>>>>
>>>> install
>>>>
>>>> To install a screen scraper, you need to save its information (that you
>>>> have
>>>> collected) and to activate it. To activate a screen scraper, click on the
>>>> icon [disabled gear icon] at the upper right corner of the screen scraperıs
>>>> information. That icon will change to this icon [enabled gear icon] to
>>>> indicate that the screen scraper is activated.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If I go to the Semantic Bank page at simile.mit.edu I see pages dedicated
>>>> to
>>>> 23 scrapers, List View, yet I do not see any [disabled gear icons] on these
>>>> pages. If I go to a page dedicated to a scraper, like the NCBI PubMed
>>>> Screen
>>>> Scraper page, I do not see a [disabled gear icon]. Iım assuming one or both
>>>> of these pages are the ³screen scraper information² pages, yes? I do see
>>>> links labelled ³focus on these values² on some of the scraperıs pages,
>>>> upper
>>>> right, but no [disabled gear icon].
>>>>
>>>> Details:
>>>>
>>>> Mac OS X 10.4.5
>>>> Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1)
>>>> Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
>>>>
>>>> Your thoughts?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Brian O.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
Received on Tue Mar 14 2006 - 19:50:28 EST