Dear Sherman,
It's great to have more activity, and all strength to you.
However, I would like to ask if you could modify some of your description to
more accurately reflect what it is doing.
Referring to the dataset as the "public LOD cloud instance of Virtuoso"
suggests that it is browsing all the LOD data, which it is not.
Also, I am not sure it is right to call it a "linked data browser"; I can't
work out how to use it to browse any other sites than the Virtuoso EC2 one.
Best
Hugh
PS Sorry to those who feel I have been here before, but I think there are
important things here.
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On 13/05/2009 18:42, "Sherman Monroe" <[email protected]> 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/
[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,
