Uche Ogbuji, IBM developerWorks
SIMILE (Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and Information in unLike
Environments) is a research project developing tools to share diverse
collections of data and digital media. SIMILE is a joint project of
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the W3C, and it has
produced some real gems. One of these is Exhibit, which allows you to
produce Web pages with widgets the user can use to quickly comb through
large collections of data.
Exhibit makes this easy and requires little
programming. It is developed by David Huynh, with contributions from
others on the SIMILE team. This article explains how the Exhibit Web
library allows you to construct functional and visually attractive user
interfaces without much work, once you have good 'LOD' available. Linking
Open Data (LOD) is a community initiative for moving the Web from
separated documents to a broad information space of data. The principles
of LOD are very important, but when a Web developer has a deadline
looming it's not always easy to put "important" into perspective. Exhibit
is one of those tools that takes a grand idea and uses it to actually
make a developer's life easier. If you have a collection of information
and you need to present it to users so they can easily see it in context
and find details they care about, take advantage of the large head start
Exhibit offers.
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