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<h1>Roadmap diagrams</h1>

<p>2001/04/30</p>

<p>Here are some roadmap diagrams which illustrate, broadly, dependencies
between</p>

<p>W3C activities both actual and contemplated. The granularity varies a
little. For example, st</p>

<p>the time to writing, Voice and XHTML seen as single nodes wheras in fact
they are each</p>

<p>composed of several items closely related.</p>
<ul>
  <li><a href="ws.svg">Web Services architecture under discussion</a>
  <a></a></li>
  <li><a href="sw.svg">Semantic Web components (simplified)</a> <a></a></li>
  <li><a href="swws.svg">Combination of Web Services and Semantic Web</a>
    <a></a></li>
  <li><a href="all.svg">All activities</a></li>
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<p>Note. These are all in <a href="/Graphics/SVG">SVG</a><a></a> - so if you
don't have a browser like <a href="/Amaya/">Amaya</a> which supports it out of
the box then you will need a plug-in.</p>
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<h2>How they were made</h2>

<p>The raw data of the diagrams was entered by hand in RDF, and then various
small</p>

<p>files written which use rules to extract subsets of information. Another
file of rules</p>

<p>(a stylesheet in effect) derives colors and styles from the types of nodes
and relationships.</p>

<p>See <a href="about.svg">diagram</a></p>

<p></p>

<p><img src="about.png" alt="data and style files are all in" /> </p>

<p>These are all fed into a generic RDF rule processor which combined the
information to produce the input data for the graph drawing program. An XSLT
script converts the RDF into the input format for the GraphViz software, which
then generates graphics files in a variety of formats. The SVG files produce
the best results, as they have the highest precison and can be zoomed. See <a
href="../../02pd/">DanC's converter</a> and ATT's open source <a
href="http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/graphviz/">GraphViz</a>.</p>

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<h2>Viewing SVG</h2>

<p>The <a href="/Amaya">Amaya</a> browser will display SVG natively.</p>

<p>There are a number of plugins for common browsers. <em>(The Adobe one is
controlled by the mouse, with combinations of Alt to move, Ctrl or Ctrl+Shift
to zoom , and has a right-click menu.  If you don't see anything at first,
wait for it to finish loading them try zooming ot or moving)</em></p>

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