Thomas Winningham wrote: > 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 I missed that! Excellent! > > 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 Yes, it also wouldn't be too hard to put up an interface to your own database consisting of a textbox for CONSTRUCT queries, say, piping the results through Babel (or a local RDF/XML->Exhibit JSON converter) which an exhibit beneath the box would visualise.
What would be /really/ good though, would being able to connect Exhibit up to an endpoint (or several) and have it dynamically retrieve, load, (and probably discard again) data as you browsed through it. Not sure how that could be done though. > > this is perhaps more powerful and lighter weight than a lot of > analysis tools I've seen in enterprise solutions. I'm a little embarrassed to admit that when I first heard of Exhibit, I thought 'ho humm, a fancy dhtml table-sorter thing for small datasets'. All too gradually did it dawn on me what an impressive data visualisation and browsing platform Exhibit actually is. Keith _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
