Re: freebase parallax: user interface for browsing graphs of data

Georgi Kobilarov wrote:
> Kingsley,
>
>   
>> Visualizations are good, but graph visualizations are not the sole
>>     
> keys
>   
>> to the treasures that reside within a Graph.
>>     
>
> It's not about graph visualization. It's about user interaction for
> graph-based data.
>   
Georgi,

Is this an apropos or an insight addition?

My entire position about Linked Data solutions is centered on "User 
Interaction".  Note, I said: "Visualizations are good, but graph 
visualizations are not the sole keys to the treasures that reside within 
a Graph".

I regard "Data Access" as part of "User Interaction".   This is why the 
OpenLink Data Explorer extension (for instance) simply adds the ability 
to "View | Linked Data Sources" to its host browser.  All it is really 
doing is providing the user with a route to a beachead from which a 
query could be beamed (i.e. SPARQL + Full Text under the covers across 
the data sources in it's history).

Give users the  "option" to use their own cognitive skills to interact 
with the data (e.g. pivot, project, and traverse based on their own 
specific needs).

We are repeating a long history of not understanding intersection of 
"User Interaction" and "User Cognitive Skills" if we don't provide 
routes to the data behind subject projections.  This matter has been the 
same since advent of the IT era:

1. Executive Information Systems (what used to be called EIS)
2. Report Writing Systems (Cognos, Crystal Repors, Business Objects, 
Brio,  Forest & Trees, I can go on, used and worked with all of them)
3. Dektop Productivity Tools (Access, MS Query, Paradox, and many more)

"User Interaction" is a about a rich set of options that provide outlets 
for cognitive prowess. Programmers cannot acquire the domain expertise 
of an alien domain.

BTW - I also gave an "User Interaction & Linked Data" talk / demo [2] at 
the most recent Cambridge Semantic Web Gathering.

Links

1. http://ode.openlinksw.com
2. http://tinyurl.com/5pvbcz  -- a presentation remixing presentations 
by TimBL and I from LDP (focus on slides 14 to 21 as this is what ODE is 
all about revealing to the user as a Linked Data interaction option)



Kingsley
> Georgi
>
> --
> Georgi Kobilarov
> Freie Universität Berlin
> www.georgikobilarov.com
>
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: public-lod-request@w3.org [mailto:public-lod-request@w3.org] On
>> Behalf Of Kingsley Idehen
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 8:43 PM
>> To: Richard H. McCullough
>> Cc: David Huynh; public-lod@w3.org; semantic-web@w3c.org
>> Subject: Re: freebase parallax: user interface for browsing graphs of
>> data
>>
>>
>> Richard H. McCullough wrote:
>>     
>>> Very nice!!!
>>>
>>> How is your knowledge base structured?  What language?
>>>
>>> Can I download your program to my computer?
>>>
>>> Dick McCullough
>>> Ayn Rand do speak od mKR done;
>>> mKE do enhance od Real Intelligence done;
>>> knowledge := man do identify od existent done;
>>> knowledge haspart proposition list;
>>> http://mKRmKE.org/
>>>       
>> David,
>>
>> For purpose of clarity and broader discourse (I know we've been over
>> this in private), what is the Linked Data and/or Semantic Web oriented
>> value of this very cool visualization?
>>
>> Put differently, it would be nice if I could beam a query down the
>>     
> data
>   
>> graph exposed by you very nice visualization rather than being
>>     
> confined
>   
>> to the options presented by your application.
>>
>> At the very least, what's the harm in exposing the Freebase URLs in
>> these Web Pages? If you do that, at the very least, other user agents
>> can do stuff with the graphs (Linked Data) that you are visualizing.
>> The cost of this little tweak is extremely low and the upside
>>     
> extremely
>   
>> high.
>>
>> Cool stuff for sure, but I would like Parallax to be a nice Linked
>>     
> Data
>   
>> Web contribution also :-)  Freebase (basic) is part of the Web, but
>> Parallax is sort of confining me to a Freebase enclave by not exposing
>> URLs (where I currently see: javascript:{}).
>>
>>
>> My fundamental argument remains this:
>>
>> Visualizations are good, but graph visualizations are not the sole
>>     
> keys
>   
>> to the treasures that reside within a Graph. Effective traversal (e.g.
>> query beaming SPARQL or MQL) is also part of the puzzle, and it would
>> be
>> nice if we could always offer the visualization and the
>> graph-query-beam-beachhead as part of a single Web information
>>     
> resource
>   
>> deliverable. There are always reasons why one or more humans (due
>> inherent cognitive prowess) would seek to view the same data
>> differently, no matter how compelling the initial visualization, due
>>     
> to
>   
>> the fact that data visualizations are inherently subjective
>> projections.
>>
>> Links:
>>
>> 1. http://tinyurl.com/5of2qu - Abraham Lincoln as Linked Data from
>> Freebase  ( I get no triples with Parallax pages since the Freebase
>> Data
>> Sources aren't exposed)
>>
>> Note: The Freebase RDFization Cartridge (Wrapper, Scrapper etc.) will
>> be
>> better i.e., right now there are too many literal property values that
>> should be URIs (this fix is coming). Ditto proper lookup driven
>>     
> meshing
>   
>> with DBpedia.
>>
>>
>> Kingsley
>>     
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Huynh"
>>>       
>> <dfhuynh@alum.mit.edu>
>>     
>>> To: <public-lod@w3.org>; <semantic-web@w3c.org>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 3:11 PM
>>> Subject: freebase parallax: user interface for browsing graphs of
>>>       
>> data
>>     
>>>       
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I've been exploring some user interface ideas for browsing graphs
>>>>         
>> (of
>>     
>>>> data in Freebase) in a user-friendly way, which I think might be
>>>> applicable to some of the data that you have. The screencast should
>>>> explain:
>>>>
>>>>    http://mqlx.com/~david/parallax/
>>>>
>>>> Please let me know what you think!
>>>>
>>>> Thank you.
>>>>
>>>> David
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> --
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Kingsley Idehen	      Weblog:
>>     
> http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen
>   
>> President & CEO
>> OpenLink Software     Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
>>
>>
>>
>>     
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Regards,

Kingsley Idehen	      Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen
President & CEO 
OpenLink Software     Web: http://www.openlinksw.com

Received on Thursday, 14 August 2008 12:25:24 UTC