SUO: Re: Web-based ontology browsers
From: "Philip Jackson" <phil.jackson@computer.org>
> > Why don't we use MathML ?
> > http://www.w3.org/Math/
> >
> > I'll bet that QuickBase will support it,
>
> Well I just now tried using some sample mathml in a Quickbase record... It
> just displays the mathml code itself, i.e. it doesn't display an
equation...
>
> > if not then I will bet
> > that Intuit
> > could be persuaded to add that support to their way cool web service.
If
> > not, then i suppose, we can go somewhere else.
>
> Maybe they can be persuaded-- I suppose it wouldn't hurt to ask them about
> it.... It would be a nice feature for Quickbase in general to be able to
> have fields that have "HTML" or "MathML" or "XML" data type, where
Quickbase
> would provide an appropriate presentation engine for data in such
fields....
We might end up with too many things on our wish list for Intuit to want to
keep pace. For example I think we need the ability to read and write RDF
directly into the db. If this ontology is to grow with the help of
automated tools, we need at least to be compatible with the state-of-the-art
automated tools that are being constructed for these purposes. At the
same time, it's the data that's important here. Quickbase will probably be
adequate to help us start collecting data. As long as we can get the right
kind of data in and out of Coda, we can always pick it up and put it
somewhere else. But on the other hand if we dumb down the data to adapt to
Quickbase, we'll need to schedule a lot of busy work for someone down the
line when we want to show things in all their glory. Unless there's some
kind of budget for this, maybe we should avoid it.
> > Incidentally who is paying Intuit's bill ?
>
> Intuit provides Quickbase for free to the public, for small databases...
> Once a quickbase gets over a certain size, they charge a monthly fee. Viz.
> https://www.quickbase.com/p/cost.stm The Coda database is still small
> enough that there isn't any charge for it... If Coda were to reach the
2-15
> megabyte size range, then we'd have to look for a source of $15/ month...
Well your current db shows:
Owner/Manager: ieee_suo
Last modified: Today, 12:34 PM
Records: 39
2% full
... so, according to my interpretation, that's 2% of 3 meg, yet there's
almost nothing there. I have this fear that we will exceed the max capacity
of the Premium package, which I take to be 50 meg (~$50/month), way before
this gets interesting.
Seth Russell