Re: Yet Another LOD cloud browser

Sherman,

Good to see more faceted browsing work on LOD!

Will you be considering showing actual data or is showing the schema 
your end goal? For example, I typed in "Microsoft", and I couldn't seem 
to get any information about Microsoft. I only saw that there are some 
other things related to Microsoft, e.g., people, but I couldn't see what 
those things are (e.g., specifically, such as Bill Gates). I'd like to 
show you what I mean but I can't seem to get a permanent link to the 
state of the app.

David

Sherman Monroe wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Taking inspiration from Longwell[1] and Parallax[2], I present yet 
> another linked data browser[3]. It uses the Virtuoso Facets Web 
> service API [4] and runs against the public LOD cloud instance of 
> Virtuoso [5]. I believe such faceted search UIs could be a nice 
> compromise between SPARQL and a full-blown Cypher-based NL user 
> interface[6].
>
> Feedback appreciated.
>
> Hints:
>
> - Click a breadcrumb at the top to navigate your query path
> - Click "Your query" to view the filter details, click the nodes there 
> to navigate the path, click the icons there to modify the filter
> - Click the *green plus sign button* to add a filter
> - Click the *blue undo button* to unbound a node value
>
> Notes:
>
> I was amazed in the many instances where I got better results from LOD 
> dataspace than from Google/Technorati/Wikipedia. For example, 
> searching Monopoly, then filtering to the /umbel-sc:MentalSituations/ 
> category gave me a nice (and in some cases humorous) list of Monopoly 
> knock-offs. I tried finding such a list on the WWW with no luck 
> <http://www.google.com/search?q=Monopoly%20knockoffs>. Kingsley tells 
> me that Entity Rank [4] has to do with this, but I wonder whether this 
> quality will stick as the cloud increases.
>
>
> References:
> [1] http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Longwell
> [2] http://mqlx.com/~david/parallax/ <http://mqlx.com/%7Edavid/parallax/>
> [3] http://ec2.monrai.com:8890/facets
> [4] http://lod.openlinksw.com/fct/facet_doc.html
> [5] http://lod.openlinksw.com
> [6] http://cypher.monrai.com
>
> Enjoy,
>
> -- 
>
> Thanks,
> -sherman
>
> I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your 
> soul prospers
> (3 John 1:2)

Received on Thursday, 14 May 2009 04:48:54 UTC