ANN: Linked Data/Semantic Web Application - RKBExplorer

Dear Colleague,

We have revamped a lot of the RKB and RKBExplorer infrastructure since last
exposing it here, so you may well like to give it another visit at
http://www.rkbexplorer.com/

There you will find a user interface to a world of Linked Data, although it
is specifically designed to avoid exposing users to any Linked Data or
Semantic Web technologies directly. We hope it looks like a "normal" Web 1.0
or 2.0 site.

The RKBExplorer gives consolidated views on a core set of Linked Data sites
(listed at http://www.rkbexplorer.com/data and comprising about 100M triples
at 40 domains), plus the many external Linked Data sites and resolvable URIs
for which it then finds references, notably dbpedia.org. This external
knowledge is discovered by dynamic browsing as well as dynamic co-reference
analysis, and the knowledge base for this co-reference (exposed at
http://sameas.org/) currently has over 6M different entities from 20M URIs.

The user domain is of workers looking to explore many aspects of researchers
and research topics, although the emphasis is currently around Computer
Science, and especially Resilient Systems.

The underlying infrastructure for all this is very open, with RESTful
interactions, and so available to anyone; however the purpose of this email
is to draw attention to the RKBExplorer as a (hopefully) useful application,
and a possible system that you might choose to use to demonstrate the power
of Linked Data and the Semantic Web to others. Feel free to pass on the URI.
Feel free to contact me if you think you might like to use a service.

Best

Hugh Glaser and Ian Millard

http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/about/news/2602
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Received on Monday, 6 July 2009 20:14:34 UTC