The Tabulator Extension
The Tabulator Extension
Releases:
Use
to get the latest code from the
Tabulator
Merurial Repo
. To install, open the file created in Firefox
and follow the instructions.
Tabulator is also hosted on
addons.mozilla.org
. If
you download and install from
there
it will provide automatic updates through the Firefox Addon
Manager. But make sure you register on the site before downloading the
extension (Since the extension is hosted in the "Addons Sandbox", it
can only be downloaded by registered users).
But because Tabulator
is still not in a very stable state, we do not push builds to AMO
regularly.
So, please use
if you would like to play with the bleeding edge code.
Alternatively, you can download and install the some of the old releases from below.
2008-Nov-24: Tabulator Extension Release 0.8.7
(latest)
Install the 0.8.7 release of the Tabulator Extension
This release includes the "FOAF Pane" which lets you explore friends listed on your FOAF file and the instructions on how to create a "Web ID". It is also possible to create your FOAF file with some seed FOAF data on any WebDAV editable space, and add details later on.
For more information on the background on this work please refer to the position paper
Decentralization : The Future of Social Networking
Note: Make sure you turn on "Tools -> Data Browser -> Make Firefox RDF" upon installing the Firefox Extension. This is required because the FOAF ontology is not loaded if the accept header is not set to request RDF, and some labels will not be displayed properly.
(SVN revision level: 25295)
2008-Oct-13: Tabulator Extension Release 0.8.6
Install the 0.8.6 release of the Tabulator Extension
This release includes a hack to fix Tabulator caching. Now it is possible to reload the changes to an RDF document by clicking the Reload/Refresh button on the Firefox toolbar. Earlier you'd have to restart Firefox to see the changes you made.
This version also includes an embryonic version of an application which provides Polciy Based Access Control for tagging photos.
(SVN revision level: 24812)
2008-Aug-06: Tabulator Extension Release 0.8.5
Install the 0.8.5 release of the Tabulator Extension
This is yet another quick bug fix release to support Firefox 3.0.1. The functionalities of Tabulator are
not any different than the previous release. The change is only in the
install.rdf
, where it involves the max
Firefox version to be upgraded to 3.0.* from 3.0.0.*.
(SVN revision level: 24812)
2008-June-19: Tabulator Extension Release 0.8.4
Install the 0.8.4 release of the Tabulator Extension
This is a quick bug fix release to support Firefox 3.0. See the corresponding
tabulator issue
for more information.
(SVN revision level: 24790)
2008-March-20: Tabulator Extension Release 0.8.3
Install the 0.8.3 release of the Tabulator Extension
This release includes the following features:
Support for Firefox V3.0b
Justification User Interface for integrated policy explanations
This includes the following panes in addition to the default N3 view for data:
"Why?" pane to explore the justification proof trace in a step by step manner
"Lawyer's View" pane which gives a summary of the scenario and the justification
You may try the following examples after installing the extension:
Telephone company
denial of service
to someone connected to a CDT investigation
Application of international human rights law to
integration and use
of data from International Red Cross missing persons list with battlefield intelligence in Iraq.
More information about the Justification UI could be found in the
Justification UI how-to guide.
(SVN revision level: 17446)
2008-Febrary-01: Tabulator Extension Release 0.8.2
Install the 0.8.2 release of the Tabulator Extension
A quick release to get out important enhancement, about HTTP 303:
When you followd a link to an object for which the server
made 303 HTTP response,
the tabulator extension would show you the document
about the thing instead of the thing itself.
A bug has bem removed which would disrupt the formatting in
outline mode, for some things identified by several URIs.
When entering new data, a relationship between the
current think and some other thing, there is, at the top of the
list in the auto-complete menu the "New..." optio which
allows you to enter data about something the tabulator
hasn't seen in the new session. A new URI is made up for the thing,
in the document in which the data is being stored.
This functionality has been in some versions, but was not in the last.
(SVN revision level: 11864)
2007-December-31: Tabulator Extension Release 0.8.1
Install the 0.8.1 release of the Tabulator Extension
This release is still very alpha.
While the old features may be more stable, new ones have been added, which
will be less stable. But that's more fun, right? This release:
The system of 'panes' allows multiple views of an object
in outline view.
A list of the members of class;
The normal view of the properties of a thing;
A view "under the hood" of what happened when a thing was looked up on the web;
A social "Friend of a Friend" view of people (see below)
For an image, the image itself
For a web page, the web page itself.
The ones at the top of the list have priority, the first one which
applies being selected as the default.
The editing interface was different in the extension and online
versions, they have now been merged, but the merge might not have all the
features of both.
There remains a problem when following link to, or laoding from the URI bar,
something which teh server gives a HTTP 303 redirect code.
(A battle between Tabulator and Firefox).
Firefox follows the redirect, and so the display
isnot focussed on the original
thing; just (all) the information sent back is displayed.
Recently, An embryonic Social Networking view
of people allows you to easily
say you know someone, see which acquaintances you have in common.
28th August, 2007:
An
alpha version
of the Tabulator Extension is stil available. This release is still in testing.
The edit UI is generally usable, but still allows many edits that should not be allowed.
All bugs should be filed under the
Tabulator Issue Tracker
For general discussion, head to
Tabulator Extension - ESW Wiki
Alpha Release:
Install the alpha release of the Tabulator Extension
Introduction:
The Tabulator Extension is an extension for Firefox that provides a
human-readable interface for linked data.
It is based on the on-line
Tabulator
a web-based interface for browsing RDF.
Using Tabulator's outline mode, query views, and back-end code,
the Tabulator Extension integrates the browsing of linked data directly
into the Firefox browser, making for a more natural and seamless experience when browsing linked data on the Web.
A primary goal of the Tabulator Extension is to explore how linked data could be displayed in the next generation of Web browsers.
The extension aims to make linked data human-readable by taking a document and picking out the actual
things
that the document describes.
The properties of these things are the displayed in a table, and then the links in that table can be followed to load more data about other things in other documents.
The Tabulator Extension was originally developed during Summer 2007 by the
Tabulator Team
It is open source under the W3C Software License.
Installation:
To install the extension, click the download link in the Releases section.
Once the extension file is downloaded, it should automatically install.
After restarting Firefox, all documents served as application/rdf+xml and
text/n3 will be automatically loaded in the extension's outline view.
It may be necessary to disable other RDF-related extensions that could override the extension's capture of these documents.
Tutorial:
A tutorial for the Tabulator Extension can be found here:
Tabulator Extension Tutorial
US