- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 10:17:40 -0400
- To: Steffen Lohmann <slohmann@inf.uc3m.es>
- CC: public-lod@w3.org, semantic-web@w3.org, dbpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net
On 4/7/11 10:16 AM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: > On 4/7/11 9:42 AM, Steffen Lohmann wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> we are happy to announce the launch of http://www.visualdataweb.org - >> a website that provides an overview of our past and current attempts >> to make the Data Web visually more experienceable. In particular, it >> lists some of the visual tools we developed along with screencasts >> and live demos accessing DBpedia. >> >> Besides the already known tools RelFinder and gFacet, the website >> presents SemLens for the first time, a new tool that supports the >> visual exploration of RDF data via scatter plots and semantic lenses. >> All three tools are implemented in the open source framework Adobe >> Flex and can be tried out online without local installation (only >> Flash player is needed). Have fun playing around with these visual >> tools and discover relationships, correlations, and dependencies that >> you have not been aware of before. >> >> Best >> Philipp & Steffen >> >> P.S.: Please note the tiny "DBpedia-meter" on the tool pages showing >> up-to-the-second status information on DBpedia endpoint availability. >> A red status means high endpoint traffic - in this case, you should >> better check back later, as many other people also access the DBpedia >> endpoint at the same time and the live demos work only very slow or >> not at all. >> >> P.P.S.: If you like this project and have related ideas, research >> results and/or developments, consider to submit your work to the >> workshop "Interaction and Visualization in the Data Web" (IVDW 2011) >> that we are organizing in conjunction with the conferences >> INFORMATIK2011, KI2011, and MATES 2011 in beautiful Berlin this year >> (note that parts of these events are in German). Please find more >> information about the IVDW 2011 workshop at: >> http://ivdw2011.visualdataweb.org >> > Steffen, > > Very nice! > > Quick question re. SemLens, do you not have a permalink feature? > Remember, you added this to RelFinder, its also very important here, > in short its always important. > > Have you considered a Map control? For instance, I did the following > with your default demo settings: > > 1. Picked 'Liberal Democrats' Should have said: 'Liberal Democracies' :-) > 2. Selected the default class > 3. Selected Longitude and Latitude as properties of interest > 4. Got the Graph and Table views re. your analytics. > > The Map control is a logical addition re. the workflow above :-) > > -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen President& CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen Twitter/Identi.ca: kidehen
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