Re: visualizer for Linked Data Fragments

Hi Alfredo,

> The point is just to improve user experience in a more graphical way for common users.

Makes sense!

> Talking with some colleagues recently on a mailing list about Open Data here in Italy it appears that there is a lack of good tools for exploring datasets

If you want my two cents on that:
researchers (who are a big part of the Open Data community)
are not rewarded for their work on such tools.

The issue is that these tools are hard to evaluate
(What can you do? Only user testing?)
and hence, hard to publish on the main conferences
such as ISWC / ESWC / WWW.
While some interest has gone out to visualization,
it is very hard to get such work accepted.
As such, few people get paid to do it.

> I think start introducing the Linked Data Fragment this way could also be a good idea, since one of the things that I'd like to have is the ability to mashup resources which are not actually obtained by a SPARQL query at all :-) and this is probably possible by introducing LDF.

Yes, such mash-ups would be nice to show off functionality.
I hope I can convince a student to work on something like that :-)

> Good to know that a facet browser is already in production (which is one of the options we have cited on the ML, in some way).

You'll probably hear from it in a couple of months :-)

> Hope I express the idea in a clear way: the point is not only on fancyness, but it appears several users are scared by too simple or let's say too textual interfaces, even if one provides them the explanations on how to use them. I think the approach of LDF could greatly simplify access to things which are too much complex for a common user (such as SPARQL endpoints, or even RDF repositories), but in order to test this it could be useful to introduce a more friendly UX, just that. What do you think about?

True! How did you like the things posted here by Pieter?
- http://ewi.mmlab.be/ba/all?subject=http://data.kbodata.be/organisation/2_228_124_444%23id
- http://triples.demo.thedatatank.com/all

Best,

Ruben

Received on Tuesday, 5 August 2014 09:50:02 UTC