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

Kingsley Idehen wrote:
> 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?
Hi Kingsley,

I apologize for the confusion. I actually didn't say "semantic web" or 
"web of data" or "linked open data" in my first message. I simply 
thought that the graph-based browsing paradigm of Parallax might be 
useful on RDF, which is graph-like. Dbpedia, for example, is a huge 
graph of billions of triples, and as far as I'm aware, it's hard to 
explore Dbpedia.

And there has been very similar UI research on browsing graphs, such as 
Georgi's Humboldt, which I missed out as I wasn't able to attend WWW 
2008 :-( Well, at least I had a chance to discuss with him on the Simile 
mailing list before.

But if you would still like to understand the relevance to Linked Data / 
SW, then may I point you to third parties who have tried to ask/answer 
that question:

    http://blogs.zdnet.com/collaboration/?p=131
       (the talkback comments are also valuable)

    http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/freebase_parallax_taunts_us_wi.php

    
http://blog.futurefacts.net/2008/08/14/future-web-freebase-%E2%80%93-killing-google-with-semantic-precision/

Those are their opinions alone. I include them here to provide various 
perspectives.

Best,

David

Received on Thursday, 14 August 2008 23:42:59 UTC