- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:20:27 -0400
- CC: public-lod@w3.org
All, Quick note re. the Firefox Linked Data Sources extension ( "rdfb.xpi") : 1. Download to your local filesystem 2. Use File | Open from Firefox to load (this isn't a properly signed XPI at the current time) Kingsley > > All, > > In an attempt to "kill many birds with a single stone" here is a #swig > logger session link > <http://chatlogs.planetrdf.com/swig/2008-06-22#T20-23-40> covering the > thinking behind a new extension re. are realising for Firefox 2.x and > 3.x (of course other browsers to follow). > > Gist of the matter: > We are adding: View | Linked Data Sources, to browsers, so that Linked > Data is revealed to Web Users as the 3rd of the following options: > > 1. View Rendered Page (what you get by default) > 2. View Page Source (how you look at the markup behind the page) > 3. View Linked Data Sources (how you look at the raw data behind the > page; the data the page puts in context in rendered form) > > Of course, the same applies to the Browser Context Menus, meaning: > "Linked Data Sources" occurs as an option (for completeness this will > be changed to: "View Linked Data Sources"). > > Our extension uses an HTTP Proxy (Sponger) which is associated with > RDFizers (think of these as RDF analogs of ODBC/JDBC Drivers, but for > Web Data). Thus, you can increase or decrease the quality of the > linked data graph via the Cartridges/Drivers that you plug into your > data spaces. > > Also note, the recent enhancement to Semantic Radar now makes it > possible to incorporate Linked Data Browsers/Viewers from a myriad of > providers (OpenLink, Zitgist, Marbles, DISCO, Tabulator etc.), which > is great, but you will note that the new plugin doesn't mandate any > discovery of RDF. It simply takes a URL and then RDfizes it whenever > you take the: "View | Linked Data Sources" menu or context menu route. > > The initial cut of the extension is at: > http://myopenlink.net:8890/~kidehen/Public/rdfb.xpi > > Of course, there are a few updates on the way later this week(mostly > aesthetic bar the non functioning "Search" feature). That said, you > can get to the essence of what I am talking about via the initial > release. > > Related: > > 1. My Linked Data Planet Keynote > > <http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/presentations/Creating_Deploying_Exploiting_Linked_Data2/Creating_Deploying_Exploiting_Linked_Data2.html> > > (thanks to RDFa and the Bibliographic Ontology it's now possible > to model Presentations (Slideshows) ) > 2. Other Slidy Presentations from OpenLink > <http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/Whitepapers/index.htm> enhanced > with RDFa annotations. > > > Final note: since we already have a Cartridge/Driver for Slidy based > data sources, you can also view the data behind any Slidy > presentation. Of course, the context fidelity of the graph would be > low (i.e. low linked data resolution) without RDFa or some other > Linked Data exposure mechanism, but if you have a meta cartridge (e.g. > the kind that Zitgist delivers via it's exploitation of UMBEL aided > Named Entity Extraction and Disambiguation), you don't even require > RDFa en route to context fidelity (HIgh Def. Linked Data), you just > slot that cartridge into your data space. > > BTW - http://community.linkeddata.org/ods remains open to community > members seeking both a data space and an easy place to get an Entity > URI :-) > -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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