Consuming Linked Data by Humans

Consuming Linked Data by Humans
Consuming Linked Data Tutorial
International 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

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

Tabulator
http://www.w3.org/2005/ajar/tab
OpenLink
http://ode.openlinksw.com/
ZitgistDataviewr
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?