[XESAM] Minutes of meeting 2007-05-15

[Joe Shaw]

Hi,

On 5/21/07, Evgeny Egorochkin <phreedom.stdin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not sure what you mean by "knowing how to display",

Simply that code has to exist which pulls specific information
provided and displays it in an optimal way.  For instance, displaying
some sort of widget for a "person" rather than a URI.

It must also know how to filter information so that a user isn't
overwhelmed.  For a person, inundating the user with all possible
information about that person in little more than a key-value format
isn't useful.  Otherwise we might as well just be displaying the FOAF
file itself and not bothering to parse it. :)

> but when app encounters meta-data outside of the core or known onto, it has
> to deal with it nevertheless.

Beagle's policy has always been to drop this information, actually.
If we can't present it sanely to the user, it probably won't be useful
to them.  (There is also the conscious decision that Beagle is just a
search tool -- it largely provides information "at a glance" to the
user; if they want details, another application is better suited than
we could ever be.)

> The more structured the onto is, the more opportunities the app
> has to present/process the data properly.

Sure, but doesn't the app have to know about this?

Joe