Re: [Gzz] Space in RDF structure

[Tuukka Hastrup]

On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Benja Fallenstein wrote:
> > I'm trying to figure out how to create a feel of space in an RDF 
> > structure, even though the structure can be very dense and the same nodes 
> > are shown many times when we traverse the structure more than one hop. I 
> > fear that without spatiality it won't be easy to navigate in the 
> > structure. Excplicit spatiality is an option in PP type applications.
> 
> How about simply turning off most of the properties most of the time, as 
> in zzstructure where only 2-3 dimensions are shown at once? E.g. if you 
> only turn on the properties making up a list/tree, then you will be able 
> to browse that list/tree quite naturally.

I'm referring more to the Euclidean geometry of the structure: We talked 
about zzstructure being "locally Euclidean" (if you could say so of a 
discrete structure), and I don't see how we can provide for that in RDF. 
RDF property simply isn't a dimension. For instance, you could've built 
grids and cubes in plain zzstructure.

Of course in RDF, we could limit some properties to have the limit of 
single statement per node. 


Instead of turning off most of the properties most of the time, a bigger 
impact I didn't previously realise is in only showing each node only once 
per view. That's what we did also in Gzz. I presume this helps with many 
RDF structures.

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