- ARCHIVE / Information Architecture
- Towards a conceptual model for the domain of sculpture
For the next two years I’ll be collaborating with the Art of Making project. The project investigates the processes involved in the carving of stone during the Roman period, in particular it aims at analysing them using the insights and understanding Peter Rockwell (son of Norman Rockwell) developed during his lifelong experience as a sculptor. […]
- DJFacet: a faceted browser for Django
DJFacet is a pluggable module for the Django web application framework that allows you to navigate the data in your webapp using an approach based on ‘facets’. DJFacet relies entirely on the django models you’ve already defined within your project and on a configuration file where you can create the facets and assign them behaviour. […]
- KR workshop #2: introducing CIDOC-CRM and FRBR-OO
This is the second appointment with the knowledge representation seminar we’re having at CCH (Kings College, London). If you are in the area and are interested in taking part in this, please drop me an email. We’re looking at these topics from the specific perspective of the digital humanities, but even if your take on […]
- Knowledge Representation workshop @ CCH
Last month or so I started a Knowledge Representation workshop with my colleagues at CCH. The basic idea is to take a broad perspective on the various topics related to KR, and then focus on the digital humanities so to see how these approaches and technologies can be best applied to our domain. What is […]
- UML to django
Neat little project that will speed up your data modeling using django: think up an application model, formalize it by drawing a UML diagram using the freely available ArgoUML, and have it tranlsated into django models automatically. Just use uml-to-django and et-voila’: the application is ready in django!
- Representing hierarchical data with Django and MPTT
Apparently, you’ve got two options for managing hierarchical data in django – django-mptt and django-treebeard. I didn’t have any time to test both of them carefully, so I just played a bit with the first one (and with great results!). [p.s. the comparison table above is not mine, but I found it quite useful. Click […]
- Logic and Ontology
I found an interesting article on the SEP this morning, it seemed to me well written and clearly argumented. ‘Logic and ontology‘, by Thomas Hofweber. Defining logic and ontology is not an easy thing – maybe because it is just a truism to say that there is one unifying view of what they they are. […]
- Understanding Google’s BigTable
BigTable is google’s proprietary data storage system – and that’s what you’ve got to learn if you want to work with the Google Application Engine (a web application environment by which you can make use of Google’s powerful IT infrastructure free of charge). The talk below (from Google-IO 2008) helped me a lot in understanding […]
- DB visualize : The Universal Database Tool
I’ve been searching for something similar for along time. Just hook up a database, and et voila you can see it, modify and export it with a clean and fast interface. Among the many (really a lot) features you have: Database Browser: Tree based navigation through all database objects. Browse object details and invoke management […]
- Faceted Browsing: a conceptual map
UPDATE 8/6/11: I uploaded an improved version of the map Faceted search (navigation, or browsing) is a technique for accessing a collection of information represented using a faceted classification, allowing users to explore by filtering available information. A faceted classification system allows the assignment of multiple classifications to an object, enabling the classifications to be […]