Consuming Linked Data by Humans
Consuming Linked Data TutorialInternational Semantic Web Conference
2009
Consuming Linked Data by Humans
• HTML Browsers• Linked Data Browsers• Faceted Browsers• On-the-fly Mashups• Come up with another paradigm and become
the next …
HTML Browsers
Links to other URIs
<span rel="foaf:interest"><a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Database"
property="dcterms:title">Database</a>, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data_integration" property="dcterms:title">Data Integration</a>, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Semantic_Web" property="dcterms:title">Semantic Web</a>, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" property="dcterms:title">Linked Data</a>, etc.</span>
HTML Browsers
• RDF can be serialized in RDFa• Have you heard of– Yahoo’s Search Monkey– Google Rich Snippets?
• They are consuming RDFa• But WHY?
Because there is life beyond ten blue links
Google and Yahoo are starting to crawl RDFa!
The Semantic Web is a reality!
The Reality
• Yahoo is crawling data that is in RDFa and Microformats under a specific vocabularies – FOAF– GoodRelations– …
• Google is crawling RDFa and Microformats that use the Google vocabulary
• How much of this is Linked Data– I don’t know
Linked Data Browsers
Linked Data Browsers
• Not actually separate browsers. Run inside of HTML browsers
• View the data that is returned after looking up a URI in tabular form
• (IMO) UI lacks usability
Linked Data Browsers
• Tabulator– http://www.w3.org/2005/ajar/tab
• OpenLink– http://ode.openlinksw.com/
• Zitgist Dataviewr– http://dataviewer.zitgist.com/
• Marbles– http://www5.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/marbles/
• Explorator– http://www.tecweb.inf.puc-rio.br/explorator
• Sema5 (??)– http://sema5.com
Faceted Browsers
http://dbpedia.neofonie.de
On-the-fly Mashups
http://sig.ma
What’s next?
Time to create new and innovative ways to interact with Linked Data
This may be one of the Killer Apps that we have all been waiting for
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mosaic_browser_plaque_ncsa.jpg
It’s time to partner with HCI community
Visual Interfaces to the Social and Semantic Web (VISSW 2010)
http://www.smart-ui.org/events/vissw2010/
Questions?