Re: Open source faceted browser recommendations?

Hi David, all,

We are currently developing a tool that might be interesting for you.
It is not capable of working directly on top of any SPARQL endpoint
yet, but we are planning to add this functionality. Currently, it
works on top of datasets stored in Virtuoso, Jena or Sesame/OWLIM.

We have added the corresponding entry to the W3C Wiki:
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/wiki/Rhizomer

Best,


Roberto García
Associate Professor
Universitat de Lleida, Spain
http://rhizomik.net/~roberto


On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 5:33 PM, David Booth <david@dbooth.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-04-21 at 13:26 +0200, Ivan Herman wrote:
>> On Apr 19, 2012, at 23:31 , David Booth wrote:
> [ . . . ]
>> > That database would seem like a logical place to list faceted browsers,
>> > but AFAICT it does not have a "faceted browser" category, or even a
>> > "browser" category:
>> > http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/wiki/Category:Tool
>>
>> ... but this can be done, any category can be added. It is a wiki...
>> although adding a new tool requires some semantic mediawiki wizzardy.
>> But, please, do it, the wiki page should not depend on me only!
>
> I since noticed that there is a "Special Browser" category, so that
> seems the closest.
>
> The biggest problem is that the vast majority of the tools listed appear
> to be abandoned or obsolete.  This was impossible to determine from the
> wiki entry, so I added two new predicates to make this easier to figure
> out in the future: DateOfLatestRelease and
> UrlToVerifyDateOfLatestRelease.  For example, if you now view the page
> for the Disco tool
> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/wiki/Disco
> You will see "Date of latest release: 2007-01-01 (verify)".  The
> "(verify)" link allows you to easily check whether a newer version has
> since been released since that metadata was last updated.  By clicking
> on the "edit" tab (after logging in), you can then update the entry by
> modifying the following lines:
>
>  | DateOfLatestRelease=2007-01-01
>  | UrlToVerifyDateOfLatestRelease=http://ng4j.cvs.sourceforge.net/ng4j/rdf-browser/
>
>
> I manually went through all of the 22 tools listed in the "Special
> Browser" category
> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/wiki/Category:Special_Browser
> and entered this metadata based on information that I was able to find
> on the web.
>
> I think the next things that would really help would be:
>
> 1. Adding a view that would allow tools to be filtered or viewed by
> DateOfLatestRelease, so that obsolete tools -- for example, those that
> have not had a new release in over a year -- can be easily ignored.
> This could be done either by sorting by DateOfLatestRelease or by
> filtering.
>
> 2. Adding this metadata to more of the tools (as well as updating the
> entries in general).  It is very easy to add this metadata, just by
> clicking the "edit" tab when viewing a tool entry, and adding two lines
> like those shown in the example above.
>
> 3. Tools that are tagged as being within a subcategory should show up as
> being within the parent category -- i.e., by category subsumption.  At
> present they don't, which means that it is hard to figure out what all
> of the tools are for a given category.
>
> As Ivan suggests, I encourage others to help.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> David Booth, Ph.D.
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>
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Received on Tuesday, 24 April 2012 18:55:37 UTC