Keith, I've often thought that an Exhibit of an ad-hoc query or a specific RDF context is an insanely powerful and under used idea. I stumbled upon this when playing with Babel and its Exhibit capabilities. Now that there's a GET interface (that has even more powerful options than I thought of), you could do:
1) Use SPARQLer to create a query, and preview the results ala MSQUERY32 2) Cut 'n paste the URL into Babel (you could also tweak XSLT at this point, or use another web service in the middle). 3) Instant exhibit Its amazing to think of a query as setting the stage for further ad-hoc faceted analysis. This is almost the 2-part SPARQL query techniques to get to any view you want of RDF data as described by Danny Ayers in some of his blog posts. Very instant wow factor for me... this is perhaps more powerful and lighter weight than a lot of analysis tools I've seen in enterprise solutions. Thomas On 3/17/07, Keith Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi again folks, I realised that the semantic templating idea I discussed in my last post to this list could also be applied to Exhibit's JSON database format, and that this could provide a pretty neat bridge between an Exhibit and an RDF database. So I wrote a script to do it, and here's how it works: Provide a template exhibit json file as input. The script interprets the json template as a query/several queries and: queries the database, fetching the results injects the data back into the template ouputs the json file full of items. I told Stefano about the idea last night in the simile irc channel, and he pointed out that if a web service were to do this, it would provide an easy way for Exhibit authors to make exhibits of any RDF database with an endpoint. I think there could be some other interesting possibilities for the idea as well: It would be cool to see public endpoints allow Exhibit JSON as an input and output. I've written up some further explanation and thoughts with links to the code and an example exhibit at http://semwebdev.keithalexander.co.uk/blog/posts/Exhibit-JSON.html Again, constructive criticism of both the idea and the implementation are warmly invited. Cheers, Keith _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
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