Re: Showing the Semantic Web

Jeroen van der Ham wrote:
> 
> I think your topic is spot on. The Semantic Web should be shown more in 
> a literal sense! There should be better tools to visualize RDF.
> 
> Currently we have IsaViz. The graphs it produces from moderately sized 
> RDF files are awe inspiring and make it seem very complicated.
> They are improving things with GSS, but I think we need to go further. 
> Fresnel seems promising, but I haven't seen much happening there.

IsaViz [1] is not actually aimed at showing Semantic Web data to anybody 
in the "real world". Its representation is too low-level for that. You 
are right when you say GSS tries to improve this, but even with GSS [2], 
IsaViz is still aimed at people who want to get an understanding of the 
structure of their RDF model, and get a more graphical, node-link 
diagram-based representation of their data. That is mostly RDF *developers*.

For applications that try to present Semantic Web data and reach a 
broader audience, take a look at the various tools developed within the 
Simile project [3] such as Longwell and Piggy bank.  Other interesting 
tools out there include Haystack [4], mSpace [5] and Noadster [6].

[1] http://www.w3.org/2001/11/IsaViz/
[2] http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/12/03/gss.html
[3] http://simile.mit.edu/
[4] http://haystack.lcs.mit.edu/
[5] http://mspace.fm/
[6] http://homepages.cwi.nl/~media/demo/noadster/

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Received on Thursday, 19 January 2006 08:53:55 UTC