Exhibit (part of the
SIMILE Project
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) is a lightweight, structured-data publishing framework that allows developers to create
web pages with support for sorting, filtering and rich visualizations. Oriented towards
semantic web-type problems, Exhibit can be implemented by writing rich data out to
HTML then configuring some
CSS
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and
JavaScript code.
Overview
Technically, Exhibit is a collection of JavaScript files to be included in a
web page. When Exhibit pages are loaded by a
browser, the JavaScript reads in one or more
JSON
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation, pronounced ; also ) is an open standard file format and data interchange format that uses human-readable text to store and transmit data objects consisting of attribute–value pairs and arrays (or other ser ...
data files and builds a local database in the memory of the machine running the browser. Data can then be filtered and sorted directly in the browser without having to re-query the server. The design of Exhibit is optimized for browsing
faceted data.
The Exhibit code base is currently being developed by members of the SIMILE Project at
MIT.
References
External links
Website of the Exhibit WidgetExhibit WikiOfficial SIMILE Project website
Web development software
Semantic Web
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