- From: Christian Morbidoni <christian.morbidoni@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 20:08:29 +0100
- To: Linking Open Data <public-lod@w3.org>
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Thank you all for the replies and the useful info. I'll go trough all of them asap and will bother you again if I have some question :-) best, Christian On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 6:08 PM, Thiago Nunes <thiagorinu@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Christian, > To the best of my knowledge you are right, there is not much survey on > faceted browsers. In addition to the works you’ve surveyed, I would > recommend the book in [8], section 4.2. The remaining references I added > comprise tools/models for faceted search. > > Please let me know about your advances. I'm very interested in faceted > browsing. > > Best Regards, > Thiago > > 2015-01-23 12:31 GMT-02:00 Daniel Schwabe <dschwabe@gmail.com>: > >> 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 >> -- >> Daniel Schwabe Dept. de Informatica, PUC-Rio >> Tel:+55-21-3527 1500 r. 4356 R. M. de S. Vicente, 225 >> Fax: +55-21-3527 1530 Rio de Janeiro, RJ 22453-900, Brasil >> http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~dschwabe >> [1] 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 >> >> [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 >> >> >> [3] Lee, B., Smith, G., Robertson, G. G., Czerwinski, M., & Tan, D. S. >> (2009). FacetLens: exposing trends and relationships to support sensemaking >> within faceted datasets. In *Proceedings of the 27th international >> conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI 09* (p. 1293). >> New York, New York, USA: ACM Press. doi:10.1145/1518701.1518896 ( >> http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/80530/chi2009-facetlens.pdf) >> >> [4] Ferré, S., & Hermann, a. (2012). Reconciling faceted search and >> query languages for the Semantic Web. *International Journal of >> Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies*, *7*(1), 37. ( >> https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00779925/document) >> > [5] Hermann, A., & Ducass, M. (2011). Semantic Faceted Search : Safe and >> Expressive Navigation in RDF Graphs.( >> http://iswc2011.semanticweb.org/fileadmin/iswc/Papers/Research_Paper/01/70310176.pdf >> ) >> > [6] Yogev, S., Roitman, H., Carmel, D., & Zwerdling, N. (2012). Towards >> expressive exploratory search over entity-relationship data. In *Proceedings >> of the 21st international conference companion on World Wide Web - WWW ’12 >> Companion* (p. 83). New York, New York, USA: ACM Press. >> doi:10.1145/2187980.2187990 (http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2187990) >> > [7] Buschbeck, S., Jameson, A., Spirescu, A., Schneeberger, T., Troncy, >> R., Khrouf, H., … Hyvönen, E. (2013). Parallel faceted browsing. In *CHI >> ’13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems on - CHI EA >> '13* (p. 3023). New York, New York, USA: ACM Press. >> doi:10.1145/2468356.2479601 ( >> http://www.seco.tkk.fi/publications/2013/buschbeck-et-al-chi-2013.pdf) >> > [8] White, R. W., & Roth, R. A. (2009). Exploratory Search: Beyond the >> Query-Response Paradigm. *Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, >> Retrieval, and Services*, *1*(1), 1–98. >> doi:10.2200/S00174ED1V01Y200901ICR003 (Section 4.2) >> > [9] Google Refine (Open Refine): http://openrefine.org/ >> > My current, randomly ordered list: >> >> tFacets - 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/ >> >> >> Facete -http://aksw.org/Projects/Facete.html >> >> PivotBrowser - http://www.sindicetech.com/pivotbrowser.html >> >> Rhizomik - http://rhizomik.net/html/ >> >> /facets >> Paper: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~media/publications/iswc06.pdf >> >> gFacets - Paper: >> 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 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >
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