Re: Survey on Faceted Browsers for RDF data ?

Dear Bernadette, all

I can surely share my list, and I'll do as soon as I find some time to give
it some structure and write in proper english...

Honestly I got a bit stuck asking myself "What exactly am I looking for"?
In other words: what is exactly a faceted browser for RDF data? Does it
mean that it has to query a SPRQL endpoint with no intermediaries, in
real-time? In fact, this approach is not the best in my opinion...one
probably needs to materialize data in some other more facets-friedly system
(e.g. solr, elastic search) to gain good performances (I might be wrong but
this is what my - limited - experience told me). Then I started asking
me...if you put a SPARQL connector, then every existing faceted browser can
be a RDF data faceted browser...
So...what is the kind of tools that you think should go in this list? All
existing systems that provide faceted browsing functionality? And what kind
of features should a comparison take into account? may be "how is it easy
to connect a tool to a SPARQL endpoint"? not sure...

best,

Christian

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 7:17 PM, Bernadette Hyland <bhyland@3roundstones.com
> wrote:

> Hi Christian,
> If you produce a list of platforms/browsers for RDF, you'd create a
> valuable resource for the open data / Web of data community.  Thanks in
> advance.  Please share with the list when completed.
>
> Please add the *Callimachus Project* to your list.[1]  Callimachus is an
> Open Source web application server. It's an actively supported Open Source
> project that commercial companies, including 3 Round Stones support.
> Callimachus is on GitHub.[2]
>
> Used by government agencies, healthcare organizations and scientific
> researchers, Callimachus is used to to rapidly build and visualize data
> from the public Web or behind the firewall. It uses a Linked Data
> approach and based on W3C data standards, including RDF.
>
> Developers use a range of JavaScript libraries for visualizations,
> including D3 and Google Charts. Here is a sampling of apps that use
> Callimachus -- I share these to show it goes well beyond faceted browsing.
>
>
> *Open Data Directory* - Simple app - A crowdsourced community run
> directory of organizations using Linked Data for projects, see the W3C Open
> Data Directory [3]
>
> *GeoHealth US* - In beta. GeoHealth.us <http://geohealth.us/> generates
> hundreds of millions of data-driven pages, including visualizations (heat
> maps, pollution reports, etc) related to environmental exposure and related
> diseases. It will be launched at the upcoming National Health Datapalooza
> in Washington DC in early June.[4]
>
> *ORGpedia* - A research project funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
> <http://www.sloan.org/> and led by New York University
> <http://www.nyu.edu/>Professor Beth Noveck's team at the Wagner School of
> Public Policy.[5]
>
> *WeatherHealth *- A pilot for Sentara Healthcare. It combines data from
> multiple government open data sites to demonstrate  the power of patient
> education for better health.[6]
>
> *Linked Data Books *website.[7] This community run site publishes
> resources for developers, executives and academics. It's open to anyone who
> wishes to add a publication to the list.  If during your research you
> identify some good books to add, please send us an email. The Linked Data
> Books website was created using the Callimachus Project.
>
> Lastly, Callimachus served as a reference implementation for the *Linked
> Data Platform*.[8]
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bernadette Hyland
> CEO, 3 Round Stones, Inc.
>
> http://3roundstones.com  || http://about.me/bernadettehyland
>
> ----
> [1] http://callimachusproject.org
>
> [2] https://github.com/3-Round-Stones/callimachus/
>
> [3] The Open Data Directory - see http://dir.w3.org
>
> [4] Environmental exposures & diseases mapper - see http://geohealth.us
>
> [5] ORGpedia - see http://3RoundStones.com/orgpedia
> <http://3roundstones.com/orgpedia>
>
> [6] Sentara WeatherHealth pilot - see http://3RoundStones.com/sentara
> <http://3roundstones.com/sentara>
>
> [7] Linked Data Developer site - see http://linkeddatadeveloper.com
>
> [8] W3C Linked Data Platform - see http://www.w3.org/2012/ldp/charter
>
> On Jan 23, 2015, at 6:42 AM, Christian Morbidoni <
> christian.morbidoni@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm doing some research to get a comprehensive (as much as possible) view
> on what faceted browsers are out there today for RDF data and what features
> they offer.
> I collected a lot of links to papers, web sites and demos... but I found
> very few comparison/survey papers about this specific topic. [1] contains a
> section on faceted browsers, but not so exhaustive, [2] mentions some
> interesting systems but is a bit outdated.
>
> So, my questions are:
> 1) Do someone know a better paper/resource I can look at for a survey?
> 2) Is someone currently working on a survey like this?
> 3) Does someone have notable additions to my list? (pasted at the end of
> the mail)
> At this stage I'm interested in both: automatic and configuration based
> browsers, free and commercial products, hierarchical and flat facets,
> "simple" and pivoting.
>
> thank you in advance
>
> best,
>
> Christian
>
>
> [1] Survey of linked data based exploration systems (2014)
> http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1279/iesd14_8.pdf
>
> [2] From Keyword Search to Exploration: How Result Visualization Aids
> Discovery on the Web
> http://hcil2.cs.umd.edu/trs/2008-06/2008-06.pdf
>
>
>
> My current, randomly ordered list:
>
> tFacets - http://www.visualdataweb.org/tfacet.php
>
> Exhibit (3) + Babel
>
> Virtuoso built-in search + faceted browser
>
> RDF-faceted-browser -Blog post:
> https://sheeeer.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/a-faceted-browser-over-sparql-endpoints/
>
>
> Facete -http://aksw.org/Projects/Facete.html
>
> PivotBrowser - http://www.sindicetech.com/pivotbrowser.html
>
> Rhizomik - http://rhizomik.net/html/
>
> /facets
> Paper: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~media/publications/iswc06.pdf
>
> gFacets - Paper:
> http://www.sfb716.uni-stuttgart.de/uploads/tx_vispublications/eswc10-heimErtlZiegler.pdf
>
>
> Flamenco
>
> Nested Facets Browser - Demo:
> http://people.csail.mit.edu/dfhuynh/projects/nfb/
> <http://people.csail.mit..edu/dfhuynh/projects/nfb/>
>
> Humboldt
>
> mSpace
>
>
>
>
>
On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 7:17 PM, Bernadette Hyland <bhyland@3roundstones.com
> wrote:

> Hi Christian,
> If you produce a list of platforms/browsers for RDF, you'd create a
> valuable resource for the open data / Web of data community.  Thanks in
> advance.  Please share with the list when completed.
>
> Please add the *Callimachus Project* to your list.[1]  Callimachus is an
> Open Source web application server. It's an actively supported Open Source
> project that commercial companies, including 3 Round Stones support.
> Callimachus is on GitHub.[2]
>
> Used by government agencies, healthcare organizations and scientific
> researchers, Callimachus is used to to rapidly build and visualize data
> from the public Web or behind the firewall. It uses a Linked Data
> approach and based on W3C data standards, including RDF.
>
> Developers use a range of JavaScript libraries for visualizations,
> including D3 and Google Charts. Here is a sampling of apps that use
> Callimachus -- I share these to show it goes well beyond faceted browsing.
>
>
> *Open Data Directory* - Simple app - A crowdsourced community run
> directory of organizations using Linked Data for projects, see the W3C Open
> Data Directory [3]
>
> *GeoHealth US* - In beta. GeoHealth.us generates hundreds of millions of
> data-driven pages, including visualizations (heat maps, pollution reports,
> etc) related to environmental exposure and related diseases. It will be
> launched at the upcoming National Health Datapalooza in Washington DC in
> early June.[4]
>
> *ORGpedia* - A research project funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
> <http://www.sloan.org/> and led by New York University
> <http://www.nyu.edu/>Professor Beth Noveck's team at the Wagner School of
> Public Policy.[5]
>
> *WeatherHealth *- A pilot for Sentara Healthcare. It combines data from
> multiple government open data sites to demonstrate  the power of patient
> education for better health.[6]
>
> *Linked Data Books *website.[7] This community run site publishes
> resources for developers, executives and academics. It's open to anyone who
> wishes to add a publication to the list.  If during your research you
> identify some good books to add, please send us an email. The Linked Data
> Books website was created using the Callimachus Project.
>
> Lastly, Callimachus served as a reference implementation for the *Linked
> Data Platform*.[8]
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bernadette Hyland
> CEO, 3 Round Stones, Inc.
>
> http://3roundstones.com  || http://about.me/bernadettehyland
>
> ----
> [1] http://callimachusproject.org
>
> [2] https://github.com/3-Round-Stones/callimachus/
>
> [3] The Open Data Directory - see http://dir.w3.org
>
> [4] Environmental exposures & diseases mapper - see http://geohealth.us
>
> [5] ORGpedia - see http://3RoundStones.com/orgpedia
>
> [6] Sentara WeatherHealth pilot - see http://3RoundStones.com/sentara
>
> [7] Linked Data Developer site - see http://linkeddatadeveloper.com
>
> [8] W3C Linked Data Platform - see http://www.w3.org/2012/ldp/charter
>
> On Jan 23, 2015, at 6:42 AM, Christian Morbidoni <
> christian.morbidoni@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm doing some research to get a comprehensive (as much as possible) view
> on what faceted browsers are out there today for RDF data and what features
> they offer.
> I collected a lot of links to papers, web sites and demos... but I found
> very few comparison/survey papers about this specific topic. [1] contains a
> section on faceted browsers, but not so exhaustive, [2] mentions some
> interesting systems but is a bit outdated.
>
> So, my questions are:
> 1) Do someone know a better paper/resource I can look at for a survey?
> 2) Is someone currently working on a survey like this?
> 3) Does someone have notable additions to my list? (pasted at the end of
> the mail)
> At this stage I'm interested in both: automatic and configuration based
> browsers, free and commercial products, hierarchical and flat facets,
> "simple" and pivoting.
>
> thank you in advance
>
> best,
>
> Christian
>
>
> [1] Survey of linked data based exploration systems (2014)
> http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1279/iesd14_8.pdf
>
> [2] From Keyword Search to Exploration: How Result Visualization Aids
> Discovery on the Web
> http://hcil2.cs.umd.edu/trs/2008-06/2008-06.pdf
>
>
>
> My current, randomly ordered list:
>
> tFacets - http://www.visualdataweb.org/tfacet.php
>
> Exhibit (3) + Babel
>
> Virtuoso built-in search + faceted browser
>
> RDF-faceted-browser -Blog post:
> https://sheeeer.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/a-faceted-browser-over-sparql-endpoints/
>
>
> Facete -http://aksw.org/Projects/Facete.html
>
> PivotBrowser - http://www.sindicetech.com/pivotbrowser.html
>
> Rhizomik - http://rhizomik.net/html/
>
> /facets
> Paper: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~media/publications/iswc06.pdf
>
> gFacets - Paper:
> http://www.sfb716.uni-stuttgart.de/uploads/tx_vispublications/eswc10-heimErtlZiegler.pdf
>
>
> Flamenco
>
> Nested Facets Browser - Demo:
> http://people.csail.mit.edu/dfhuynh/projects/nfb/
> <http://people.csail.mit..edu/dfhuynh/projects/nfb/>
>
> Humboldt
>
> mSpace
>
>
>
>
>