Semantic Web Dog Food

Presented at: Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2008)

by Georgi Kobilarov, Ian Dickinson

We present Humboldt, a novel user interface for browsing RDF data. Current user interfaces for browsing RDF data are reviewed.We argue that browsing tasks require both a facet browser's ability to select and process groups of resources at a time and a 'resource at a time' browser's ability to navigate anywhere in a dataset.We describe Humboldt which combines these two features in a single coherent interface.Our approach is based on the operation of \emph{pivoting}, which enables the user to move the focus of a browsing from one set of resources to a set of related resources.With repeated use of the pivot operation the user can browse anywhere in the data.We describe a preliminary evaluation of our approach and discuss its implications for further development.

Resource URI on the dog food server: http://data.semanticweb.org/workshop/LDOW/2008/paper/9

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