Take a look at http://people.csail.mit.edu/karger/Exhibit/example.html and you'll see that "thing" has three children first, second, and third. If you look at the data file http://people.csail.mit.edu/karger/Exhibit/data.js you will see that those children were introduced using two separate mentions of "thing"
mowi wrote: > Hi David, > > I tried it like you said and made a third excel sheet for the > connections. The authors are now connected to the articles but > instead of multiple authors only the last author got connected to the > article in the JSON file. I used Babel to convert the excel file to > JSON. I have also tried to convert to JSONP but that didn`t matter. > Any ideas? > > On Feb 19, 2:52 pm, David Karger <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It's ok; you can use author and article as ID even if they appear >> multiple times. First do the obvious thing, creating items for the >> exhibit corresponding to the authors and articles (using author name as >> id for the authors, and article title as id for the articles): >> {type: "Author", id: "name of author", affiliation: "affiliation of >> author"...} >> {type: "Article", id: "title of article", year: "year of publication", ....} >> >> Finally, take your relationship table. Suppose it has a row (authorX, >> articleY) >> add another fragment of json to the collection of "items": >> {id: "articleY", author: "authorX"} >> Do this for every row. This will accomplish what you want. >> >> To understand what is going on, note how exhibit will interpret these >> final fragments from the relationship table. It will say "ok, this >> person is specifying an item whose id is articleY and has an author >> property with value authorX. But I already know about an item whose id >> is articleY---namely, the one that was defined at the beginning of type >> "Article". So, I'm not going to create a new item with id articleY. >> Instead, I will _merge_ the attributes of the new item (in particular, >> the author relationship to authorX) into the already existing item. And >> if that item already has a value of the author property, because I >> already saw an author of that article, then I will _add_ authorX as an >> additional value for the now-multivalued author property on articleX." >> >> mowiwrote: >> >>> hi, >>> I have some data with many to many relationships just like the >>> articles and authors in the example website about ISWC 2007 + ASWC >>> 2007.http://people.csail.mit.edu/dfhuynh/projects/graph-based-exhibit/grap... >>> >>> there it is solved by putting multiple persons in the "author" field. >>> >>> I have a problem getting multiple values in one field because the >>> data is from acces 2003. I have got one table with articles, one with >>> authors and one with relationships. The relationship list has three >>> columns:id (which I do not really use), author and article. Can i also >>> do it like that in exhibit? how can I do that? >>> In the example you use ".author.affiliation" to get a value from the >>> author list in the article overview. Author is an id there. In my >>> relationship list both author and article cannot be id because they >>> appear multiple times. >>> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIMILE Widgets" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
