TriQL.P - Trust policies enabled Semantic Web browser released.

Hi all,

we have released the "TriQL.P Trust Policies enabled Semantic Web Browser".

The TriQL.P browser allows web surfers to collect information together with
provenance meta-information from the Web. The collected information can be
filtered using a wide range of user-definable trust policies based on
information context, information content, ratings and digital signatures. In
order to facilitate the user’s understanding of the filtering decisions, the
browser can create natural language explanations why displayed information
fulfils a selected trust policy.

The TriQL.P browser is based on the Piggy Bank [1] plug-in for Firefox
developed by the SIMILE project. Piggy Bank extracts Semantic Web content
from Web content as users browse the Web. Wherever Semantic Web content is
not available, Piggy Bank can invoke screenscrapers to re-structure
information within web pages into Semantic Web format. The extracted
information can be browsed, sorted and searched using a comfortable
user-interface. David, Stefano and Ryan, thanks for this cool tool :-).

The TriQL.P browser extends Piggy Bank with the ability to: 
+ collect information together with provenance meta-information. 
+ filter collected information using user-definable trust policies. 
+ explain why displayed information fulfils the selected trust policy. 
+ import and export information using the Named Graphs [2] data model and
the RDF/XML, TriX and TriG syntaxes.

Screenshots and documentation about the browser are found at
http://www.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/suhl/bizer/TriQLP/browser/

The following people have contributed to the development of the TriQL.P
browser:
+ Richard Cyganiak implemented NG4J and the TriQL.P query engine. 
+ Oliver Maresch implemented of reputation-based trust metrics. 
+ Tobias Gauss implemented the integration into Piggy Bank.

We are very interested in your opinion about the browser and thankful for
additional ideas.

Cheers,

Chris



[1] http://simile.mit.edu/piggy-bank/
[2] http://www.w3.org/2004/03/trix/


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Chris Bizer
Freie Universität Berlin
Phone: +49 30 838 54057
Mail: chris@bizer.de
Web: www.bizer.de

Received on Tuesday, 21 June 2005 09:02:32 UTC