A comment on new LGD release
Richard Cyganiak
This page describes my favourite pub:
http://linkedgeodata.org/page/node480399721
Maybe this page could also contain a link back to the LGD Browser? Centered on the node, perhaps with the node selected? So after clicking the link, I'd like to end up with a view like the attached screenshot.
Finally, both in the HTML node view and in the LGD browser, it would be really genius if you could link back to OSM. In a perfect world, a view on OSM where I can directly edit the pub's data (or add Massimo's another bar in the same street that's currently missing from OSM) would only be a click away from the linked data URI above :-)
Thanks again for all the hard work, and for making this terrific resource.
Richard
Claus Stadler
Thank you very much for your feedback!
I like your suggestions and they should be implemented.
However right now there is a deadline for a publication of LGD on May
6th, and since I was busy with coding (and hacking ;) for this release,
I urgently need to do some writing now. So please take my apologies that
I might need to delay these improvements for a while right now.
Ideally I think for Linked Data URIs, rather than presenting the "naked"
data when viewing the HTML view of a resource, the user should be
presented a page with an integrated view of the map, depiction and
abstract from DBpedia and maybe more data from GeoNames.
Additionally, there should be a toggle button to switch back to a sparse
view as it is now (useful for developers, and people who get annoyed by
the loading times of the map when they just want to look at some data) ;)
Best regards,
Claus
Richard Cyganiak
Thanks for the response.
> So please take my apologies that I might need to delay these improvements for a while right now.
No worries! :-)
> Ideally I think for Linked Data URIs, rather than presenting the "naked" data when viewing the HTML view of a resource, the user should be presented a page with an integrated view of the map, depiction and abstract from DBpedia and maybe more data from GeoNames.
I couldn't agree more!
> Additionally, there should be a toggle button to switch back to a sparse view as it is now (useful for developers, and people who get annoyed by the loading times of the map when they just want to look at some data) ;)
Well, this might be just me, but I actually find a Turtle representation more helpful than those minimalist “sparse data view” HTML pages. (Assuming the Turtle is presented to be readable, that is, it has @prefixes correctly configured, uses reasonable indentation and ordering of triples etc.)
Compare
http://linkedgeodata.org/page/node480399721
and
http://linkedgeodata.org/page/node480399721.n3
The difference in usability for a developer really isn't that large. In the HTML, links are clickable, but that's the main difference really.
So, I'd say focus on high-quality pure data for developers, and usable and attractive web pages for all your other visitors.
All the best,
Richard