4.3 'InContext' Visualiser

[Bèta] www.surf.nl/InContext - RDF Navigation toolkit for Enhanced Publications build in JavaScript and CSS

Introduction

The visualiser ... let's you navigate through RDF relations in a smooth and understandable way. The objects in an enhanced publication are presented nice and clean like one reads a news paper to discover interesting material, and click on it to read details. The visualiser is playfull, friendly interfaced, usable and creates information scent for more discovery of information.

Showcases

Demo video
Demo aggregation snapping shrimps* Centrum voor Openbare Orde Handhaving
Communicatie met burgers over overstromingen
Escape project aggregation
Flyer about InContext visualiser: in Dutch and English
NEW! - LiveContext == InContext Test and Showcase Centre for Developers (Load your RDF, and tweak the configuration settings.)

Graphic Design / Interaction Design

Final-Design-2011-01-12b - Presentation Website

Licence

Opensource: Apache License 2.0

Use of the software should be reported to Max Kemman, see contact details! We would like to measure the interest, in order to have enough body for starting an Open Source Community.

Download

The source code has been released at Google Code on 10 March 2011.

InContext Visualiser v1.1 - Stable Release - InContext-v1.1.zip
for the stable and latest releases see Google Code Downloads and Source

Changelog

This is the changelog before release on Google Code, v1.1.1 has been released as v1 on Google Code.

For the current changelog, we refer you to Google Code updates

v1.1	Update: Jquery updated to v1.4.4
v1	Initial release

LiveContext - Test and Showcase Centre for Developers

What is it?
LiveContext is the InContext Test and Showcase Centre for Developers.

With the InContext visualiser you can visualise RDF. InContext uses a schema that acts as ‘glue’ between your data and the visualisation. The schema and configuration tell InContext which elements of your data to visualise and how to display properties of certain elements in the visualisation.

When you want to see the way InContext visualises your RDF, you can use LiveContext, without having to set up your own InContext environment. When you want to modify the way InContext visualises your RDF, you can use LiveContext to make changes in the configuration.

Who is it for?

Webdevelopers

How does it work?

Load up your (enhanced publication) data in RDF/XML or RDF/JSON format, either by pasting the source into the appropriate textbox on the ‘source’ tab directly or by providing a URL that references valid data at a remote location on the web.

Input your own data in the input fields on the tabs ‘source’, ‘configuration’ and ‘schema’. By customising the configuration parameters and the schema on the ‘configuration’ and ‘schema’ tabs you can manipulate the visualisation.

Where can I find LiveContext?

The following link wil send you to the LiveContext Test Centre: http://surf.showcase.surfnet.nl/livecontext/

About:

The InContext visualiser and LiveContext are developed by SURFfoundation within the SURFshare program.

You can find detailed (technical) information about InContext on the InContext information page: http://www.surffoundation.nl/InContext

For more information, please contact Magchiel Bijsterbosch or Maurice Vanderfeesten.

Bug reports!

If you find any bugs, please place an announcement on the issue tracker.
Bug reports can be made by anyone!
http://code.google.com/p/surf-incontext/issues/list

Developers

Commits, bugfixes and feature requests should be managed properly. We would like to start an Open Source Community. So please report any use of the visualiser, commits you would like to make, bugs you have found, bug fixes you have made, feature requests and forks you would propose.

We have put the code and builds on the Google Code project SURF-InContext. Commits can be made in subversion. Please send an email to the project owners if you want to make contributions to the project.
http://code.google.com/p/surf-incontext/

NEW! - LiveContext == InContext Test Center for Developers (Load your RDF, and tweak the configuration settings.)

Credits for Initial development

Many thanks: This initial result is created with the effort from many people from organisations whom we would like to thank for their enthusiasm, effort and creativity:

Participating Institution: University of Twente. - Dennis Vierkant & Jan Gutteling
Developer Studio: Q42 - Coen Bijpost & Michel Post
Design Studio: EdenSpiekermann_ - Joost Holthuis & Niek van der Linde
Sponsor: SURFfoundation - Maurice Vanderfeesten & Max Kemman
Quality Control: Enhanced Publications Sounding Board Group - Martin Slabbertje, Arjan Hogenaar, Steff Scagliola, Saskia Woutersen, Barbara Sierman, Thomas Place en Marc van den Berg.