[Data-modeling] [Developers] Schema Visualisation app

[Stefano Mazzocchi]

Philip Kendall wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 01:42:29PM +0100, Philip Kendall wrote:
>> Some of you may have already seen Kirrily's tweet, but if not... a little
>> app while people may be interested in:
>>
>> http://schemaviz.freebaseapps.com/
> 
> Mildly updated version now published:
> 
> * Node shapes now indicate the display style of the type (ellipse:
>   standard, rectangle: CVT, triangle: enumeration)
> * New option to show included types via dotted edges (this deliberately
>   excludes /common/topic)
> * New option to ignore "common types" (those in /type, eg integer, text,
>   etc). This can make the graph significantly simpler and (I think)
>   easier to understand in some cases (try American Football)
> * One bugfix: if a domain contains more than 100 types (I'm looking at
>   you, /location), then the app would fail as it only fetched half the
>   data.
>   There's still an issue with /location in that the graphviz server
>   times out if given the full graph, but it does work if you turn *off*
>   "show included types" and turn *on" "ignore common types".
> 
> Thanks to Jeff, Iain and Ed for their suggestions. Any more welcome :-)

Phil,

I'm trying to integrate schemaviz into the freebase schema explorer and 
I'm thinking that it would be way cool to show directly a thumbnail for 
people to click on, for that I would need the schemaviz to be able to 
able to answer something like

  http://schemaviz.freebaseapps.com/image?domain=/whatever

and redirect to the right image, that way I could embed it as a 
clickable thumbnail in the domain page of the schema explorer.

Thoughts?

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Stefano Mazzocchi                              Application Catalyst
Metaweb Technologies, Inc.                      stefano at metaweb.com
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