Re: Survey on Faceted Browsers for RDF data ?

Thank you all for the replies and the useful info.
I'll go trough all of them asap and will bother you again if I have some
question :-)

best,

Christian

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 6:08 PM, Thiago Nunes <thiagorinu@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Christian,
> To the best of my knowledge you are right, there is not much survey on
> faceted browsers. In addition to the works you’ve surveyed, I would
> recommend the book in [8], section 4.2. The remaining references I added
> comprise tools/models for faceted search.
>
> Please let me know about your advances. I'm very interested in faceted
> browsing.
>
> Best Regards,
> Thiago
>
> 2015-01-23 12:31 GMT-02:00 Daniel Schwabe <dschwabe@gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi Christian,
>> My PhD student Thiago Nunes is working on something related - a
>> model-based framework for data exploration. You can see a partial
>> description of the work in the same IESD'14 proceedings [1]. It is aimed at
>> a generalization of faceted browsers, i.e. it considers a broader class of
>> exploratory environments, of which faceted browsers are just a particular
>> case.
>> As part of his work, he has analyzed several environments including
>> faceted ones, in a systematic way that allows comparing functionalities
>> using a reference model. He has covered several of the ones you mention,
>> plus several you didn't include. The survey you mention doesn't include
>> several browsers reported in the literature, including Explorator [2] and
>> RExplorator [3].
>> In addition, in this evaluation, there is a clear separation between
>> interface functionality and exploration functionalities, each of which
>> require different models, criteria and processes do be used in performing
>> evaluations.
>> I've asked Thiago to complement this  info with more details.
>>
>> Cheers
>> D
>> --
>> Daniel Schwabe                      Dept. de Informatica, PUC-Rio
>> Tel:+55-21-3527 1500 r. 4356        R. M. de S. Vicente, 225
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>> http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~dschwabe
>> [1] http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1279/iesd14_6.pdf
>> [2] http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-538/ldow2009_paper2.pdf; http://www
>> tecweb.inf.puc-rio.br/Explorator.
>> [3] http://goo.gl/tGHBZW
>>
>> On Jan 23, 2015, at 09:42  - 23/01/15, Christian Morbidoni <
>> christian.morbidoni@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>> I
>> 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
>>
>>
>> [3] Lee, B., Smith, G., Robertson, G. G., Czerwinski, M., & Tan, D. S.
>> (2009). FacetLens: exposing trends and relationships to support sensemaking
>> within faceted datasets. In *Proceedings of the 27th international
>> conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI 09* (p. 1293).
>> New York, New York, USA: ACM Press. doi:10.1145/1518701.1518896 (
>> http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/80530/chi2009-facetlens.pdf)
>>
>>  [4] Ferré, S., & Hermann, a. (2012). Reconciling faceted search and
>> query languages for the Semantic Web. *International Journal of
>> Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies*, *7*(1), 37. (
>> https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00779925/document)
>>
> [5] Hermann, A., & Ducass, M. (2011). Semantic Faceted Search : Safe and
>> Expressive Navigation in RDF Graphs.(
>> http://iswc2011.semanticweb.org/fileadmin/iswc/Papers/Research_Paper/01/70310176.pdf
>> )
>>
> [6] Yogev, S., Roitman, H., Carmel, D., & Zwerdling, N. (2012). Towards
>> expressive exploratory search over entity-relationship data. In *Proceedings
>> of the 21st international conference companion on World Wide Web - WWW ’12
>> Companion* (p. 83). New York, New York, USA: ACM Press.
>> doi:10.1145/2187980.2187990 (http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2187990)
>>
> [7] Buschbeck, S., Jameson, A., Spirescu, A., Schneeberger, T., Troncy,
>> R., Khrouf, H., … Hyvönen, E. (2013). Parallel faceted browsing. In *CHI
>> ’13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems on - CHI EA
>> '13* (p. 3023). New York, New York, USA: ACM Press.
>> doi:10.1145/2468356.2479601 (
>> http://www.seco.tkk.fi/publications/2013/buschbeck-et-al-chi-2013.pdf)
>>
> [8] White, R. W., & Roth, R. A. (2009). Exploratory Search: Beyond the
>> Query-Response Paradigm. *Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts,
>> Retrieval, and Services*, *1*(1), 1–98.
>> doi:10.2200/S00174ED1V01Y200901ICR003 (Section 4.2)
>>
> [9] Google Refine (Open Refine): http://openrefine.org/
>>
>    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
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>

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