Tag: semweb

The Pathetic Fallacy of RDF

Graphs have limited value, even for many of the tasks which they are supposed to support. The harder question coming from this interrogation is how do we elegantly support the range of possible interactions both in pre-defined Semantic Web applications and in dynamic explorations of Semantic Web resources?? We have only sketched out some examples of current SW applications to support old tasks better and in new ways enabled by the Semantic Web, and to explore more dynamically SW-RDF resources for user-determined exploration. As is evident, much more innovative work is possible and needs to be done.

since the data model is a graph, the UI has to be, too, no?

Swivel

But then the real fun begins. You and other users can then compare that data to other data sets to find possible correlation (or lack thereof). Compare gas prices to presidential approval ratings or UFO sightings to iPod sales. Track your page views against weather reports in Silicon Valley. See if something interesting occurs.

And better yet, Swivel will be automatically comparing your data to other data sets in the background, suggesting possible correlations to you that you may never have noticed.

sweet. more data web. i hope they have a decent back-end.

Data Web

The notion of a Web of Data seems compelling to the point of inevitability right now, but that might change. When it comes to the W3C “leading the Web,” at least as far as the Semantic Web initiative is concerned, it might be like leading a horse to water and having to wait for it to get thirsty. But what does seem fairly certain is that those paths that build on the Web’s successful features (in particular, decentralization and interface uniformity) will probably be the easiest in the long run.

danny remarks on some of the ‘data web’ trends i’m noticing too. i read somewhere that ie8 will have microformats support, too.
2006-12-07:

This is an environment in which the data is distributed, discoverable, described and linked just as the text data of documents is now. One would have a data browser and a service like Swivel would be more of an aggregator/search engine rather than a data repository. Rather than data tools exposed through current browsing technology, there would be a data browser.