- From: Sören Auer <auer@seas.upenn.edu>
- Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 10:31:59 -0400
- To: public-semweb-ui@w3.org
Lloyd.Rutledge@cwi.nl wrote: > The ISWC committee has accepted our Semantic Web User Interaction > workshop proposal. Congratulations! With Powl [1] and recently OntoWiki (see [2] for a preliminary demo) I'm developing with fellows two complementary UIs for the Semantic Web. From my experience the current paradigm shift from static or dynamically generated web pages towards interactive web applications could really advance user interfaces for the Semantic Web and foster their larger deployment. Conventional Web technologies do not support large data sets to be handled at the client (browser) side. But this is usually needed when working with larger knowledge bases. To overcome this limitation, reloading of web pages becomes necessary. This approach is time consuming and requires multiple user interactions. Recently, with the deployment of more sophisticated Web browsers, supporting modern JavaScript and XML technologies, mixed server and client side web applications became possible (e.g. AJAX). I would really appreciate if the workshop could contribute on employing this paradigm shift for semantic web UIs, for example by: * defining requirements for (dynamic) reusable widget sets for semantic web UIs * development strategies for the dynamic, interactive combination of such widgets * approaches and their comparison for domain independent ontology presentation (e.g. Fresnel, Xenon etc.) * presenting strategies to minimize required user interactions to achieve certain goals (e.g. building a query, adding information etc.) --Sören [1] http://powl.sf.net [2] http://3ba.se -------------------------------------------------------------- Sören Auer - http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~auer +1 (610) 804-5142 University of Pennsylvania, Dep. of Computer & Inform. Science
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