Sherman,
Good to see more faceted browsing work on LOD!
Will you be considering showing actual data or is showing the schema
your end goal? For example, I typed in "Microsoft", and I couldn't seem
to get any information about Microsoft. I only saw that there are some
other things related to Microsoft, e.g., people, but I couldn't see what
those things are (e.g., specifically, such as Bill Gates). I'd like to
show you what I mean but I can't seem to get a permanent link to the
state of the app.
David
Sherman Monroe wrote:
Hi All,
Taking inspiration from Longwell[1] and Parallax[2], I present yet
another linked data browser[3]. It uses the Virtuoso Facets Web
service API [4] and runs against the public LOD cloud instance of
Virtuoso [5]. I believe such faceted search UIs could be a nice
compromise between SPARQL and a full-blown Cypher-based NL user
interface[6].
Feedback appreciated.
Hints:
- Click a breadcrumb at the top to navigate your query path
- Click "Your query" to view the filter details, click the nodes there
to navigate the path, click the icons there to modify the filter
- Click the *green plus sign button* to add a filter
- Click the *blue undo button* to unbound a node value
Notes:
I was amazed in the many instances where I got better results from LOD
dataspace than from Google/Technorati/Wikipedia. For example,
searching Monopoly, then filtering to the /umbel-sc:MentalSituations/
category gave me a nice (and in some cases humorous) list of Monopoly
knock-offs. I tried finding such a list on the WWW with no luck
<http://www.google.com/search?q=Monopoly%20knockoffs>. Kingsley tells
me that Entity Rank [4] has to do with this, but I wonder whether this
quality will stick as the cloud increases.
References:
[1] http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Longwell
[2] http://mqlx.com/~david/parallax/ <http://mqlx.com/%7Edavid/parallax/>
[3] http://ec2.monrai.com:8890/facets
[4] http://lod.openlinksw.com/fct/facet_doc.html
[5] http://lod.openlinksw.com
[6] http://cypher.monrai.com
Enjoy,
--
Thanks,
-sherman
I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your
soul prospers
(3 John 1:2)
