cwrc / HuViz

LOD visualization tool for humanities datasets
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add a Setting to make nodes hidden not shelved by default #284

Open smurp opened 5 years ago

smurp commented 5 years ago

The idea here is to see to enable hidden being the default set for nodes, instead of shelved. There is a trade-off though, a less cluttered shelf at the cost of less ready access to nodes. Since it is not a pure win it ought to be a setting which presumably is off by default, since this would quite change the character of using HuViz.

This could be very pleasant for large datasets. One could still have things on the shelf, in fact the shelf could feel much more useful because it would only have the things the user put there explicitly. It might feel a little sparse and non-obvious though, so maybe this is a power-user feature? It might work quite nicely with large, unbounded datasets as are available through SPARQL. Also it might work quite naturally with a situation where the RAM was being purged of the nodes which are being ignored. Also, these features would probably work very nicely with a disk cache implemented as an IndexedDB.

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