Re: Survey on Faceted Browsers for RDF data ?

Hi Christian,
My PhD student Thiago Nunes is working on something related - a model-based framework for data exploration. You can see a partial description of the work in the same IESD'14 proceedings [1]. It is aimed at a generalization of faceted browsers, i.e. it considers a broader class of exploratory environments, of which faceted browsers are just a particular case.
As part of his work, he has analyzed several environments including faceted ones, in a systematic way that allows comparing functionalities using a reference model. He has covered several of the ones you mention, plus several you didn't include. The survey you mention doesn't include several browsers reported in the literature, including Explorator [2] and RExplorator [3].
In addition, in this evaluation, there is a clear separation between interface functionality and exploration functionalities, each of which require different models, criteria and processes do be used in performing evaluations. 
I've asked Thiago to complement this  info with more details.

Cheers
D
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[1] http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1279/iesd14_6.pdf <http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1279/iesd14_6.pdf>
[2] http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-538/ldow2009_paper2.pdf; http://www tecweb.inf.puc-rio.br/Explorator. 
[3] http://goo.gl/tGHBZW

> On Jan 23, 2015, at 09:42  - 23/01/15, Christian Morbidoni <christian.morbidoni@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> I
> I'm doing some research to get a comprehensive (as much as possible) view on what faceted browsers are out there today for RDF data and what features they offer.
> I collected a lot of links to papers, web sites and demos... but I found very few comparison/survey papers about this specific topic. [1] contains a section on faceted browsers, but not so exhaustive, [2] mentions some interesting systems but is a bit outdated.
> 
> So, my questions are:
> 1) Do someone know a better paper/resource I can look at for a survey?
> 2) Is someone currently working on a survey like this?
> 3) Does someone have notable additions to my list? (pasted at the end of the mail)
> At this stage I'm interested in both: automatic and configuration based browsers, free and commercial products, hierarchical and flat facets, "simple" and pivoting.
> 
> thank you in advance
> 
> best,
> 
> Christian
> 
> 
> [1] Survey of linked data based exploration systems (2014)
> http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1279/iesd14_8.pdf <http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1279/iesd14_8.pdf> 
> 
> [2] From Keyword Search to Exploration: How Result Visualization Aids Discovery on the Web
> http://hcil2.cs.umd.edu/trs/2008-06/2008-06.pdf <http://hcil2.cs.umd.edu/trs/2008-06/2008-06.pdf> 
> 
> 
> 
> My current, randomly ordered list:
> 
> tFacets - http://www.visualdataweb.org/tfacet.php <http://www.visualdataweb.org/tfacet.php>
> 
> Exhibit (3) + Babel 
> 
> Virtuoso built-in search + faceted browser
> 
> RDF-faceted-browser -Blog post: https://sheeeer.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/a-faceted-browser-over-sparql-endpoints/ <https://sheeeer.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/a-faceted-browser-over-sparql-endpoints/> 
> 
> Facete -http://aksw.org/Projects/Facete.html <http://aksw.org/Projects/Facete.html> 
> 
> PivotBrowser - http://www.sindicetech.com/pivotbrowser.html <http://www.sindicetech.com/pivotbrowser.html> 
> 
> Rhizomik - http://rhizomik.net/html/ <http://rhizomik.net/html/> 
> 
> /facets
> Paper: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~media/publications/iswc06.pdf <http://homepages.cwi.nl/~media/publications/iswc06.pdf> 
> 
> gFacets - Paper: http://www.sfb716.uni-stuttgart.de/uploads/tx_vispublications/eswc10-heimErtlZiegler.pdf <http://www.sfb716.uni-stuttgart.de/uploads/tx_vispublications/eswc10-heimErtlZiegler.pdf> 
> 
> Flamenco 
> 
> Nested Facets Browser - Demo: http://people.csail.mit.edu/dfhuynh/projects/nfb/ <http://people.csail.mit..edu/dfhuynh/projects/nfb/>
> 
> Humboldt
> 
> mSpace
> 
> 
>