Re: The Return of Cards?

From: Richard Wallis <richard.wallis_at_nyob>
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 14:04:55 +0100
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
"Individual pieces of content aggregated together into one experience."
Isn't that linked data?

No, but UI components such as cards that create the experience can be built
and connected easier/better if the data underpinning them is linked.

~Richard.




On 4 October 2013 13:42, Nickeson, Walter
<wnickeson_at_library.rochester.edu>wrote:

> "Individual pieces of content aggregated together into one experience."
> Isn't that linked data?
>
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> NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of James Weinheimer
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> Subject: [NGC4LIB] The Return of Cards?
>
> With the rise of mobile computing and the smaller screen sizes, even
> including tiny screens such as Google Glass, the current direction in
> information design is to present the information as a card. Here is an
> article about it, where they discuss several advantages of cards, "Why
> cards are the future of the Web"
> http://insideintercom.io/why-cards-are-the-future-of-the-web/. The author
> writes: "This [i.e. the multiple shapes and sizes of screens] is driving
> the web away from many pages of content linked together, towards individual
> pieces of content aggregated together into one experience" and the author
> shows how Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, Spotify and other sites are moving
> to card displays.
>



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