Backend functionality requirements

Frontend ideas/requirements

• View/navigate/browse resource
  • Views should cascade
    • example: resource "Paul" points to another resource, his birthdate
  • Simple transition to edit mode
    • but no "edit" buttons all over the place (display onmouseover?)
  • Breadcrumbing
    • Browsing resources/walking through resources should not require closing the currently viewed resource
  • Heavily use tooltips
    • esp. interesting for wikis for disambiguation of hyperlinks
  • Provide good interface for backlinks
    • Ideas needed here.
• Edit resource
• Create resource
• Find resource
  • Quick browser for...
    • providing RDF objects for instance-valued properties
      • create new resource on the fly in quick browser
    • finding properties/classes
  • Simple search support (going though long lists/trees without CTRL-F is no fun)
  • Search should find natural resources, not RDF resources
    • e.g., search for a date should find movies, persons, ..., not instances of Date
• Provide context for search results
  • A snippet to display for a full text search hit that explains why the resource has been found
• Features should scale
  • No "all known resources" lists which get loaded en bloc into the frontend
• Get short resource description
  • Label
  • Property-based fingerprint
  • Adjustable verbosity (compare to 3D "level of detail" features :-)
  • Can be used for cascaded viewing and tooltips
• Advanced search
• (Natural) resource viewer/listing
  • Support for restrictions (what resources to show in list)
  • Support for different views (show labels, show fingerprint, show icon, show abstract, show complete contents => just as known from file browser)
  • Integrate advanced search here?

Object-Oriented Resource Access

[Budva component: WrappedNodeComponent]

List of frontend components

• Wiki markup viewer/editor
  • Dojo's rich text editor?
  • Server-supported autocompletion support
  • Annotations for text passages
• Search box
• Quick browser
  • Faceted browsing?

APIs for components/vodules

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