Linked Open Colors

Linked Open Colors was announced on April Fools Day, 2011. But, for those of us who are interested in the semantics of visualizations, it is interesting related work.

• http://purl.org/colors -> http://linkedopencolors.moreways.net/

http://purl.org/colors/rgb/255,0,0

LOC's Datahub entry

Their code base is at https://bitbucket.org/moreways/loc, and https://www.openhub.net/p/loc provides an interesting summary of the code base. I forked it here.

Our uses:

• 3 locations in Graffle's GRDDL
• Once in SVG's GRDDL
• 3 locations in 2vsr Visual Strategy

Related work

• http://datavisualization.ch/inside/how-we-created-color-scales/
• https://github.com/balletrocstar/Linked-Open-Colors/wiki/Running-Linked-Open-Colors