- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:02:53 -0400
- To: "Richard H. McCullough" <rhm@pioneerca.com>
- CC: Sherman Monroe <sdmonroe@gmail.com>, richard.hancock@3kbo.com, Azamat <abdoul@cytanet.com.cy>, SW-forum <semantic-web@w3.org>, public-lod@w3.org, Chris Wallace <chris.wallace@uwe.ac.uk>
Richard H. McCullough wrote: > The mapping between files/directories and instances/classes > is a natural one, and allows you to use your file system intuition > when thinking about classes. > > The *mKE* browser (see http://mkrmke.org/) translates a > "hierarchy outline" into an ontology, or a file system. > > The *mKR* language used to "talk" to mKE provides a convenient > notation for doing the searches that you mention here. The mKR > equivalent of your query "Kiwi a bird" is > > *Kiwi isa* ?;* Kiwi a ? ; Is what happens via SPARQL at http://lod.openlinksw.com, which is a hug RDF Quad Store. Remember, you can click on the "SPARQL" button at anytime to unveil the underlying SPARQL associated with your query. It what happens when "razorbase" makes a call to the service via its REST API. I don't know how you've come to assume something different is happening, or how we seem to be providing an alternative solution to this basic issue. Links: 1. http://lod.openlinksw.com -- quad store 2. http://lod.openlinksw.com/facet_doc.html -- about this service (e.g. Entity Ranking as basis for ordering relative to context). Kingsley > ** > In file system terms, this *question* literally means to start at > "Kiwi", which can be either a file or directory, and walk all > paths up to "/", the root directory of the file system. > > Dick McCullough > http://mkrmke.org > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Sherman Monroe <mailto:sdmonroe@gmail.com> > *To:* richard.hancock@3kbo.com <mailto:richard.hancock@3kbo.com> > *Cc:* Azamat <mailto:abdoul@cytanet.com.cy> ; SW-forum > <mailto:semantic-web@w3.org> ; public-lod@w3.org > <mailto:public-lod@w3.org> ; Chris Wallace > <mailto:chris.wallace@uwe.ac.uk> > *Sent:* Friday, June 05, 2009 7:32 PM > *Subject:* Re: sameas.org > > Chris, > > On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 6:46 PM, <richard.hancock@3kbo.com > <mailto:richard.hancock@3kbo.com>> wrote: > > Hi Azamat, > > one thing I would like to be able to do is enter a search > query similar to > the following: > > "Kiwi a bird" > > using the "a" to indicate "rdf:type" and to substitute for > "bird" the > classes known to represent that concept. The search would then > be made > with the substituted list of classes specifying the entity type. > > > This would indeed be a better UI, however, disambiguation will be > challenging in the wild. Any UI based on state-of-the-art tech > will require the user to disambiguate. One could say that > lod.openlinksw.com <http://lod.openlinksw.com> and razorbase are > browsers which encourage user to disambiguate her way to the > desired results. > > I've prepared some slides [1] which presents the file system > metaphor as a useful approach for linked data browsers. I think it > offers a nice alternative to the more natural UI you're describing. > > [1] http://www.slideshare.net/guest02493a3/razorbase-examples-part-4 > > -sherman > -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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