- From: Matthias Samwald <samwald@gmx.at>
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 02:44:46 +0200
- To: <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>, <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
>> 2. We also have an RDF Browser Components (basically browser >> independent tabulator) 3. iSPARQL was built using OAT The mail did not contain a link to iSPARQL, but I found a demo via Google: http://demo3.openlinksw.com:8890/isparql/ It seems to be an Ajax environment where you can draw Sparql queries as graphs. Looks very nice and might be practical for more complex queries, or in cases where users do not want to deal with writing Sparql queries as text -- however, it the interface is still quite technically oriented and might still be too demanding for the average internet user (including biomedical researchers). >> 2. http://demo.openlinksw.com/DAV/JS/demo/index.html for live >> demo of toolkit Looks like a good AJAX toolkit, however I can see mostly one feature that is really geared towards RDF, namely the Graph visualizer (you can reach it via a click on "complete widgets" and then on "rdf graph"). It looks astounding for a plain Javascript application, especially with the pseudo-spherical layout. However, it suffers the same drawbacks of other RDF graph visualizers in that it looks good but is of modest practical value. If no labels are shown, you can only guess what is what; if labels are shown, the whole graph gets too cluttered. Still, we might look into this for our demo -- maybe a slightly modified version that outputs filtered RDF graphs can be useful. >> 3. http://demo.openlinksw.com/DAV/JS/rdfbrowser/index.html live >> browser demo Seems ok, but still quite rudimentary. Probably not our first choice for faceted browsing / visualisation in general. cheers, Matthias Samwald
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