Re: Vocabulary browser requested

Philipp Heim wrote:
> 
> Hi Andy,
> 
> we are currently working on a RDF browser that supports user's 
> understanding of available properties for further exploration. We call 
> our browser gFacet because of the combination of graph-based 
> visualization and faceted filtering techniques. If you are interested 
> have a look at www.gFacet.org <http://www.gFacet.org>
> 
> The demo on the webpage is limited to a dummy dataset but we are working 
> on a version that allows browsing dbpedia.
> 
> I look forward to get your opinion!

This is really very nice! I'm not sure such general interfaces will ever 
  work for all mainstream Web users, but there is a huge audience 
approximated by "MS Access users" for whom this should be a good fit.

What it does remind me of (conceptually not visually), is the design 
behind http://mqlx.com/~david/parallax/ in which you navigate through 
sets of things rather than individuals. I wonder if you could explore 
the same example 'query' in both this and Parallax (whether using 
DBPedia data or Freebase data...).

cheers,

Dan

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Received on Tuesday, 2 December 2008 14:29:43 UTC