"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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> Rush Rhees Library
> University of Rochester
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Next generation catalogs for libraries [mailto:
> NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of James Weinheimer
> Sent: Friday, October 04, 2013 6:54 AM
> To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> 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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Received on Fri Oct 04 2013 - 09:05:21 EDT