Humboldt: Exploring Linked Data

Kobilarov, Georgi ; Dickinson, Ian

HP Development Company

关键词: user interface;    semantic web;    facet browsing;    RDF;    linked data;   

RP-ID  :  HPL-2008-23

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

美国|英语

来源: HP Labs

【 摘 要 】

We present Humboldt, a novel user interface for browsing RDF data. Current user interfaces for browsing RDF data are reviewed. We argue that browsing tasks require both a facet browser's ability to select and process groups of resources at a time and a 'resource at a time' browser's ability to navigate anywhere in a dataset. We describe Humboldt which combines these two features in a single coherent interface. Our approach is based on the operation of pivoting, which enables the user to move the focus of a browsing from one set of resources to a set of related resources. With repeated use of the pivot operation the user can browse anywhere in the data. We describe a preliminary evaluation of our approach and discuss its implications for further development. Publication Info: To be presented and published in Linked Data on the Web (LDW'08), Beijing, China, April 2008 8 Pages