Re: ANN: Linked Data/Semantic Web Application - RKBExplorer

Hugh
is fantastic to see 'the sw' in my usual browser , brilliant work

especially the faceted browsing

thoughts:
 and some aspect of the navigation and visualization could be improved.

clicked on some resources and found lots of info, but could not get to the
resource , (systems keeps on opening windows of information but never opens
the document) would be nice to have a way maybe color code/flag  to
distinguish information about the resource from the resource itself, for
those who are in a hurry to find the doc

Some of the nomenclature may benefit from some translation
'
resolvabe uri (uh? maybe add plain language on mouseover)

You can also view the global equivalence
closure<http://www.rkbexplorer.com/sameAs/?uri=http%3A%2F%2Flaas.rkbexplorer.com%2Fid%2Ftech-report-b6d3d6e73e1441aa58f95df993668f33>across
all repositories.  (what?)

etc

properly labelled, it wold be a good opportunity to learn
about these terms

will contact you offlist for more thoughts

cheers

PDM



On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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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