Hands-On with ExhibitPresenting Research Products in a 'Simple'

and Standards-based Fashion !

Shawn Day Queen’s University Library - 2 December 2013

Upcoming Seminars and Workshops!

‣ 9 December - Telling Stories with Data – Collections Visualisation for Arts and Humanities Scholars (OMEKA)

‣ January - Digital Project Management ‣ Februrary - Hands On Workshop – Data Visualisation for

Presentation ‣ February - Social Scholarship – Tools for Collaborative Research ‣ March - Data Visualisation for Textual and Spatial Analysis

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‣ More to come: http://qubdh.co.uk

Objective‣ To understand through hands-on 'doing' whether Exhibit

might be of use in your research programmes !

‣ Exhibit was developed at MIT to provide a lightweight framework for the presentation, searching and faceted browsing of digital collections. Exhibit lets you easily create web pages with advanced text search and filtering functionalities, with interactive maps, timelines, and other visualizations

Integrated Database of Text Files‣ Simple

Combining Data Views

So What can you do with it? In Education

And in Fact for those with us two weeks ago … ‣ DHO:Discovery

Who is SIMILE?‣ Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and Information in

unLike Environments ‣ MIT Project - 2003-2011 ‣ MIT Library, W3C, Mellon-Funded ‣ A collection of tools to enhance inter-operatibility

between digital objects ‣ Led to the SIMILE Widget Community

Others‣ Appalachian (LogIns) ‣ Fresnel (RDF Library) ‣ HTTPTracer (Traffic Sniffer) ‣ jsTEX (TEX Render for Firefox) ‣ Zotz (publish from Zotero to Exhibit) ‣ Potluck (mixes Data from multiple Exhibits)

Babel‣ Format Conversion between

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‣ Get things ready for other tools …

Citeline‣ Exhibit custom tweaked between

CSail and MIT Libraries ‣ Dedicated to rendering interactive bibliographies ‣ Wizard to take from bibtex to a full Exhibit ‣ Connectivity to Zotero (http://zotero.org)

Gadget‣ An XML Inspector ‣ Display XML context

in a graphical andbrowsable manner

‣ Open Source ‣ Free ‣ Approachable

Longwell‣ An RDF Data Browser ‣ Customisable ‣ Graphical ‣ Comes from the Flamenco project that pioneered the

concept of faceted browsing: "allow users to move through large information spaces in a flexible

manner without feeling lost" "use of metadata is integrated with free-text search, allowing the user to follow links, then add search terms, then follow more links, without

interrupting the interaction flow"

Piggybank‣ Collect information from the Web ‣ Save information for future use ‣ Tag information with keywords ‣ Search & Browse collected information ‣ Retrieve saved information ‣ Share information you have collected ‣ Install screen scrapers - with SIMILE Solvent

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‣ Similar to Evernote

RDFizers‣ Tools to convert to RDF ‣ RDF for interoperability -

Linked Open Data ‣ Context + Content

‣ JPEG -> RDF ‣ MARC/MODS -> RDF ‣ OAI-PMH -> RDF ‣ EMail -> RDF ‣ BibTEX -> RDF ‣ RAW -> RDF

‣ Flat -> RDF ‣ Weather -> RDF ‣ Java -> RDF ‣ Javadoc -> RDF ‣ Random -> RDF ‣ iCal -> RDF ‣ RDF -> iCal ‣ Garmin -> RDF ‣ XLS -> RDF ‣ CSV -> RDF ‣ etc…

RDF is Cool Because …

Source: Wattenberg and Viegas, Flickr Seasons Source: FlickCurl: http://librdf.org/flickcurl/

<http://www.flickr.com/photos/dajobe/196308964/> flickr:photo <http://farm1.static.flickr.com/57/196308964_b34cb0af68.jpg>, <http://farm1.static.flickr.com/57/196308964_b34cb0af68_m.jpg>, <http://farm1.static.flickr.com/57/196308964_b34cb0af68_o.jpg>, <http://farm1.static.flickr.com/57/196308964_b34cb0af68_s.jpg>, <http://farm1.static.flickr.com/57/196308964_b34cb0af68_t.jpg> ; places:place [ places:id "WM3JEXSbBZqqRtGA" ; places:placeid "2467327" ; places:type "location" ; a places:Place ], [ places:id "WM3JEXSbBZqqRtGA" ; places:name "Pacific Grove" ; places:placeid "2467327" ; places:type "locality" ; a places:Place ], [ places:id "AQ4UpRqYA5l0BiyF.A" ; places:name "Monterey" ; places:placeid "12587696" ; places:type "county" ; a places:Place ], [ places:id "SVrAMtCbAphCLAtP" ; places:name "California" ; places:placeid "2347563" ; places:type "region" ; a places:Place ], [ places:id "4KO02SibApitvSBieQ" ; places:name "United States" ; places:placeid "23424977" ; places:type "country" ; a places:Place ] ; dc:subject "jellyfish" ; dcterms:created "2006-07-22T22:28:50Z"^^xsd:dateTime ; dcterms:creator [ a foaf:Person ; foaf:maker <http://www.flickr.com/photos/dajobe/196308964/> ; foaf:name "Dave Beckett" ; foaf:nick "dajobe" ] ; dcterms:dateSubmitted "2006-07-23T18:16:13Z"^^xsd:dateTime ; dcterms:issued "2006-07-23T18:16:13Z"^^xsd:dateTime ; dcterms:modified "2007-02-25T07:45:46Z"^^xsd:dateTime ; dcterms:rights <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/> ;

Referee‣ Crawls Web Logs and Determines

Who is Referencing your site

Seek‣ Adds Faceted Browsing to Thunderbird

Semantic Bank‣ Ties Longwell <——> Piggybank ‣ Create a Library of Linked Contextual

Information for Use in Collaborative Environments

‣ Publish feed as RDF

Solvent‣ Firefox Extension to Help Write Screenscarpers ‣ Web <—> Piggybank

Welkin‣ View RDF as a Graph

Timeline

Timeplot

Why‣ Simple ‣ Javascipt - Approachable - Example Based ‣ Modular ‣ Standards Based ‣ Doesn’t Require Server Technology ‣ Browser Based ‣ Allows focus on content not on the technology

Why‣ Free, no cost ‣ Easy to use ‣ No programming skills required ‣ Open source platform ‣ Get involved, share your expertise, write code or add a demo ‣ Scalable - Staged mode scales to hundreds of thousands of items ‣ Lightweight publishing framework for building interactive web pages of

linked data ‣ Supports search (Scripted mode), faceted navigation, interactive displays ‣ Easy to reconfigure and extend ‣ Supports customised data display

Setting the Stage‣ What Do You need to Make the Magic Happen? ‣ A Text Editor - NotePad or Text Wrangler ‣ A Web Browser - Firefox? ‣ A Data Manipulation Tool - Excel, GoogleDocs?

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‣ A Dataset ‣ An Open Mind ‣ A Few Hours ‣ Willingness to Play

Preparing your data for use in Exhibit‣ Input Formats ‣ Exhibit JSON ‣ Google Spreadsheet ‣ Generic JSONP ‣ From Babel ‣ BibTex ‣ Excel ‣ Exhibit Page ‣ JPEG ‣ RDF/XML ‣ Tab-Separated Values

‣ Output Formats ‣ Exhibit JSON ‣ RDF/XML ‣ Semantic MediaWiki ‣ Tab-Separated Values ‣ BibTex

Structuring Your Data‣ Rows and Columns ‣ A Row is an object in the collection ‣ A Column is a piece of metadata

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‣ The Header is the First Row ‣ Let’s See an example

Let’s Start with our Data

Point Babel at your Excel Data File

Data Files‣ An Array of Items ‣ Each Item a record ‣ Each items has properties ‣ Each property has a value ‣ Propeties surrounded by "" quotes

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‣ Each Item muct have two properties: ‣ Label ‣ Type

Copy the Exhibit JSON produced

Validate the JSON produced

This is Where We Are Going

Exhibit in a Nutshell

Data json file

Description html file

Browsable/Searchable/Visual

Website 'the Exhibit'

What Exhibit Does (Programatically)‣ A web page is loaded ‣ The web page pulls in more code (the Exhibit framework) ‣ A lightweight database is created (within the browser) ‣ The Exhibit Object is created ‣ It extracts from the HTML the user interface ‣ It loads the data into memory ‣ It ten populates the database ‣ It waits for user interaction

Exercise 1Putting Your Data on the Web

In Its Simplest Form‣ <html> ‣ <head> ‣ <title>MIT Nobel Prize Winners</title> ‣ <link href="nobelists.js" type="application/json" rel="exhibit/data" /> ‣ <script src=http://static.simile.mit.edu/exhibit/api-2.0/exhibit-api.js type="text/javascript"></script> ‣ <style></style> ‣ </head>

!‣ <body> ‣ <h1>MIT Nobel Prize Winners</h1> ‣ <table width="100%”> ‣ <tr valign="top”> ‣ <td ex:role="viewPanel”><div ex:role="view"></div></td><td width="25%”>browsing controls here…

</td></tr> ‣ </table> ‣ </body> ‣ </html>

index2-1.html

Know Your Data - Semantic { "items" : [ { type : "Nobelist", label : "Burton Richter", latlng: "42.359089,-71.093412", discipline : "Physics", shared : "yes", "last-name" : "Richter", "nobel-year" : "1976", relationship : "alumni", "co-winner" : "Samuel C.C. Ting", "relationship-detail" : "MIT S.B. 1952, Ph.D. 1956", imageURL : "http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1976/

richter_thumb.jpg" }, ……… ]}

nobelists.js

A Simple but Subtle Result index2-1.html

Stepping It Up - Faceted Browsing‣ Explore data in context ‣ Filter data by attributes

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‣ Extract the metadata from the data

The Faceted Browsing Code<div ex:role="facet" ex:expression=".discipline" ex:facetLabel="Discipline"></div>

<div ex:role="facet" ex:expression=".relationship" ex:facetLabel="Relationship"></div>

<div ex:role="facet" ex:expression=".shared" ex:facetLabel="Shared?"></div>

<div ex:role="facet" ex:expression=".deceased" ex:facetLabel="Deceased?"></div>

Leveraging the Context of the Data index2-2.html

A Sidenote on Interchange‣ That Little Orange Button

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‣ A Lot of Power ‣ Regardless of how you provide

data —> Exhibit will export ina variety of forms

Search Code<div ex:role="facet" ex:facetClass="TextSearch"></div>

index2-3.html

Initial Sort Code<div ex:role="view" ex:orders=".discipline, .nobel-year"></div>

index2-4.html

Provide Possible Sort Options<div ex:role="view" ex:orders=".discipline, .nobel-year" ex:possibleOrders=".label, .last-name, .discipline, .relationship, .shared, .deceased, .nobel-year"></div>

index2-5.html

Add a Table View<div ex:role="exhibit-view" ex:viewClass="Exhibit.TabularView" ex:columns=".label, .imageURL, .discipline, .nobel year, .relationship-detail"

ex:columnLabels="name, photo, discipline, year, relationship with MIT"

ex:columnFormats="list, image, list, list, list" ex:sortColumn="3" ex:sortAscending="false"> </div>

Now There’s Some Changes! index2-6.html

Table Considerations‣ Header Titles - Sortable ‣ Full table styling now available ‣ Tables require knowing data formats

Working with Lenses<table ex:role="lens" class="nobelist"> <tr><td><img ex:src-content=".imageURL" /></td> <td><div ex:content=".label" class="name"></div> <div><span ex:content=".discipline" class="discipline"></span>, <span ex:content=".nobel-year" class="year"></span></div> <div ex:if-exists=".co-winner" class="co-winners">Co-winners: <span ex:content=".co-winner"></span></div> <div ex:content=".relationship-detail" class="relationship"></div> </td></tr> </table> !

Can You See what has happened?

index2-7.html

Thinking Aesthetically <style> body { margin: 1in; font-family: "Helvetica","Arial", "Lucida Grande","Tahoma",sans-serif; background-color: #F7F8E0; background-image:url('nobel-prize2.png'); background-repeat:no-repeat; } footer { margin: 1in; font-family: "Helvetica","Arial", "Lucida Grande","Tahoma",sans-serif; background-color: #FFFFFF; } table.nobelist { border: 1px solid #ddd; padding: 0.5em; } div.name { font-weight: bold; font-size: 120%; } .discipline { } .year { font-style: italic; } .relationship { color: #888; } .co-winners { } </style>

index2-7.html

To Take Stock‣ We have taken a datafile and created a website that

displays that data; ‣ We have added means for the user to search, sort and

filter the data; ‣ We have added a new view to that website so that a user

can choose different means to view the data; ‣ We have started to style the textual presentation.

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‣ Let’s take a quick look at our data before we go further

Giving Co-Winners Credit"types": { "Nobelist" : { "pluralLabel":

"Nobelists" } },

index2-8.html

Being Grammatically Correct"properties": { "co-winner": { "valueType":

"item" } },

index2-8.html

Exercise 2Adding New Visual Dimensions to your Exhibit

index2-8.html nobelists1.js

Add a Timeline<script src="http://api.simile-widgets.org/exhibit/2.2.0/extensions/time/time-

extension.js" type="text/javascript"></script> !

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<div ex:role="view" ex:viewClass="Timeline" ex:start=".nobel-year" ex:colorKey=".discipline"> </div>

Add a Timeline index2-9.html

Timeline Considerations

Dates‣ ISO - 8601 ‣ So What’s That?

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‣ At Minimum YYYY ‣ YYYY-MM-DD or ‣ YYYY-MM ‣ YYYY

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‣ hh:mm:ss

A Note on Exhibit and 'ViewPanels'‣ If you change: ‣ <td ex:role="viewPanel"> ‣ to ‣ <td> ‣ You get a very different (non-tabbed presentation)

index2-91.html

The Thumbnail View‣ Add the following ViewPanel to your html file:

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<div ex:role="view" ex:viewClass="Thumbnail" ex:showAll="true" ex:orders=".discipline" ex:possibleOrders=".label, .last-name, .discipline, .relationship, .shared, .deceased, .nobel-year">

index2-95.html

The Thumbnail View index2-95.html

Exercise 3Adding a Spatial Dimension

Add a Map View<script src="http://static.simile.mit.edu/exhibit/extensions-2.0/map/map-extension.js"></script>

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<div ex:role="view" ex:viewClass="Map" ex:latlng=".latlng" ex:pin="true"> </div>

Add Map View index2-10.html

Geospatial Considerations‣ Have you got an hour or two or days? ‣ Can choose from Google versus OpenStreetMap ‣ Multiple Location for each item ‣ Getting the long lat data you need - geocoding ‣ Lenses Apply to the Bubble displayed

What Else Can You Add?Views ‣ Bar Charts ‣ Line Charts ‣ Calendars ‣ Scatter Plot ‣ PivotTables ‣ Timeplots

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Facets ‣ Lists ‣ Numeric Range ‣ Text Search ‣ Tag Cloud ‣ Slider ‣ Image ‣ Heirarchical

Exhibit in a Nutshell‣ Pros ‣ Simple ‣ Lightweight ‣ No server required ‣ A host of visualisations ‣ Embeddable in other

systems - ExhibitPress !

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‣ Cons ‣ Limited Scalability ‣ Some cross-browser

issues ‣ Restrictions on Look and

Feel ‣ Extensive customisation

means getting into code

Making Exhibit Choices‣ There is a Stable Proven Choice - Exhibit 2.2 ‣ There is an all new more standards-compliant Exhibit 3 ‣ Exhibit 3 comes in Two Flavours ‣ Exhibit Scripted - Like Exhibit 2 with streamlining and some

visual improvements ‣ Exhibit Stages - Server Based, Robust, Scalable and the Future

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‣ Exhibit 2.2 offers all whizzy features ‣ Exhibit 3 is faster but not fully ported (if you need maps?) ‣ Exhibit 3 Staged is a new, powerful, professional tool

Alternatives‣ Aeon Timeline ‣ WordPress ‣ Drupal ‣ Stay Tuned for CMS…

Where to Go Next‣ http://qubdh.co.uk/events/an-introduction-to-exhibit

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‣ Links ‣ Examples ‣ A different sort of tutorial: ‣ The Exhibit Wiki and GitHub Pages

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‣ http://www.simile-widgets.org

Upcoming Seminars and Workshops!

‣ 9 December - Telling Stories with Data – Collections Visualisation for Arts and Humanities Scholars (OMEKA)

‣ January - Digital Project Management ‣ Februrary - Hands On Workshop – Data Visualisation for

Presentation ‣ February - Social Scholarship – Tools for Collaborative Research ‣ March - Data Visualisation for Textual and Spatial Analysis

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‣ More to come: http://qubdh.co.uk

Thank YouShawn Day - s.day@qub.co.uk - @iridium

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