[seek-kr-sms] GrOWL -metadata panel design.

[Shawn Bowers]

I am not entirely sure what you are asking. If you could craft up some 
screen shots of what you are thinking that would really help.

My general opinion is that namespace names are useful (if people 
organize ontologies around these), namespaces (as URIs) for people to 
view are not and shouldn't be integrated into the graphical interface. 
If someone really wants to see them, then I would suggest using a 
different window (for "expert" mode) that lists namespace names and 
their corresponding URI.

Also, how do you see people using namespaces in your editor? How are you 
going to present them to a user in terms of modeling constructs? E.g., 
are you going to view each namespace as an "ontology"? Are there 
operations you are planning on supporting over namespaces (like get all 
concepts from a namespace)?


Shawn


Serguei Krivov wrote:
> Hi All,
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> We are getting close to graphic editing support for main owl constructs- 
> this was a difficult part. Now we can also think about easy things like 
> icons for editing toolbox and  editing metadata for ontologies.  The 
> later point however brings certain hard questions. Metadata pane should 
> contain comments, author information and namespaces-imported, default 
> etc. If authors info and comments could easily go into one more side 
> panel,  it may be not so easy with namespaces. There are at least 3 options:
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> #1 Put namespaces on side panels. Pros –easy to make, cons- namespaces 
> will be wrapped since they need long field
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> #2 Put namespaces on popup dialog. Pros- easy to make, cons –not 
> aesthetically appealing
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> #3 Create tab panel. One tab contains present view , another contains 
> metadata view. Pros- aesthetically appealing, cons – perhaps may require 
> more work.
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> Would you please vote or give your suggestions. Any better option (#4, #5,…)
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> Thanks,
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> Serguei
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