FACADE Topics : User Interface

Early wireframes version of top-level U/I navigation for FACADE

Pages from the FACADE research project wiki that have been categorized as related to the Software Development of the User Interface

Both Exhibit software and Longwell software and the export of data from DSpace to populate each.

This set of wiki pages has been collected to a single PDF.

(Page sort order is alphabetical by title.)

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ExhibitNotes

Exhibit screenshot: 3D CAD model thumbnail (PDF) with metadata record, against Timeline View.

N.B. Earlier version of Exhibit use (June 2008).

Developer notes on data formats (N3, JSON) as used in initial Exhibit prototype (June 2008).

June08 Demo Source

N.B. Earlier version of Exhibit use (June 2008).

Detailed installation procedures for initial Exhibit prototype, stand-alone use (June 2008).

Links to source code bundles: Facade-demo-rake.zip (41Mb); Jun08-exhibit.zip (11Kb).

Longwell Configuration

A few details of Longwell that will require configuration based on the data-set generated from the PIM.

Longwell Management and Troubleshooting

How to start, stop Longwell instances. Correction of possible corruption as well.

PIM Build UI Application

Describes the Build UI application (buildui.jar -- source code found in PIMTools.zip) which exports the PIM to an RDF-driven UI such as Longwell or Exhibit.

Prototype Two/Longwell as UI

[Image: Table of facets discovered, their unicity, usefulness as

Table of facets discovered, their unicity, usefulness as "Starting Points," and inclusion in our OWL.

Topics include "top-level" navigation (wireframes), Longwell starting points, the "canned" Timeline for our privileged Designs and Outputs.

Draft study of the facets available, with estimates on their level of unicity (high, med., low).
Sample PIM representation of a File, and as rendered in Longwell.
Sample HTML mockups of Longwell "Fresnel Lens" (see below)

Mockups of Simple "Lens" Layouts

Simple studies in data layout for FACADE, for use by Longwell in its Fresnel lens display technology.

Design-d0001Lensv2.html - Layout for Design Object 3D model, with two derivative files
Design-d0005SETLens.html - Layout for Set of Designs (2D Drawings)
Table16+2DesignsOutputsSetsRoof.html - Capturing Layout of Longwell tabular search/filter results
Mockup Layout Display Spreadsheet used to generate HTML (.xls)

Prototype Two/Preparing PIM for Longwell

Longwell screenshot: Images view, showing set of thumbnails of filter results.

Outlines the procedure to create the complete RDF graph required to drive the Longwell UI.

Basic steps are:

Acquire the PIM graph created by the PIM Tools including CWB, excluding provenance.
Ensure every Subject has a meaningful or at least decorative rdfs:label property.
Add pim:fullText property to Files with indexable text available.
Add pim:download property to every File.
(Maybe? Add Thumbnail/preview property for image preview.)

Longwell screenshot: full-text search results, showing 3D CAD model metadata record.

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Software development of the user interface components to FACADE