Re: displaying and browsing RDF [Was: Solid Auth for web browser extensions]

Hi Melvin,

On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 09:42:59PM +0200, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
> I’ve put together a very early-stage Chrome extension for SolidOS, which
> you can check out here:

FWIW, this looks similar to the work we described back in 2019 in
https://hal.science/hal-02283368v1 and
https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/collab_cwldbe/ except
for the solid-orientation of your extension.

The research article is in French, but since "AI" is everywhere, you
should easily get an automatic translation.

You may find in there a couple useful bibliographic references to
previous work or a couple ideas to reuse (citations always welcome).

We paused our work on this browser extension because we found that in
the wild it was very difficult to get data with the proper content
type, web sites with proper HTTP negociation, etc. For details, see
the "future work" section of the article or the 3 last pages of the
FOSDEM slidedeck.

We retargeted what we did for this extension to be able to browse
sparql endpoints and called it https://sparqlexplorer.app/

For a quick tutorial, read
https://semweb.pro/conference/2024/presentation/presentation-du-logiciel-libre-sparqlexplorer/

Today I think that the right scope to share things is a library of
frontend components that are ontology-specific and that you can feed
with a piece of RDF to have it displayed. Last year I talked about it
with Michiel De Jong and a couple other people IIRC.

It would look like this:

<SKOSConcept data={mypieceofrdf} />

or

<FOAFPerson data={apersoninrdf} />

We have shared something similar under the AGPL licence at
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@logilab/sparqlexplorer-views

Read the source at
https://forge.extranet.logilab.fr/open-source/SemWeb/generic-views/-/tree/branch/default/src/components

Best,

-- 
Nicolas Chauvat

logilab.fr - services en informatique scientifique et gestion de connaissances

Received on Friday, 9 May 2025 07:54:59 UTC