Software Visualization Space Filling Approach & Semantic Zooming
Semantic Web Visualization
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Semantic Web Visualization
Jim HollenbachDIG Seminar
August 18th 2009
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Outline● Why is Semantic Web visualization hard?● What are the methods that have been used for
viewing Semantic Web data?● What lessons have been learned so far?● Discussion: How can we use those lessons to
make a better browsing experience?
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Issues viewing the Semantic Web● Irrelevant data
– Family photographs when you want a business card
● Redundant data– Given Name, Family
Name, Name● Display and Layout
– No layout information– Bad labels or even no
labels
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Circles And Arrows● True graph representation● Interesting with small datasets with relatively
few branches.● Very poor for most Semantic Web-scale
datasets.
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Isaviz
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Isaviz
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Haystack
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Haystack
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Data Tables and Mashups● Well-suited for displaying property-value pairs
– Less cluttered than circles and arrows● Allows users to navigate the graph● At times, data table is almost too generic
– Try to solve with domain-specific mashups
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Tabulator
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Tabulator
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Tabulator
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OpenLink RDF Browser
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Sig.ma
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Faceted Browsing● Allow users to filter data on the fly● Very good for closed datasets● More confusing for large datasets
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Longwell
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Longwell
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Exhibit
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Exhibit
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What makes a SW Browser “Good”?● Easy deployment?● Pretty visualizations?● Minimal required Semantic Web knowledge?● Ease of data generation?● Discussion: How can you do all of these things
while still guaranteeing that data is usable on the Semantic Web?
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Links● Circle and Arrow:
– IsaViz http://www.w3.org/2001/11/IsaViz/– Welkin http://simile.mit.edu/welkin/
● Data Table / Mashup:
– Disco http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/bizer/ng4j/disco/– OpenLink RDF Browser
http://demo.openlinksw.com/DAV/JS/rdfbrowser/index.html– Tabulator http://dig.csail.mit.edu/2007/tab/– Sig.ma http://sig.ma/
● Faceted Browsing:
– /facet http://slashfacet.semanticweb.org/– mSpace http://mspace.fm/– Exhibit http://www.simile-widgets.org/exhibit/– Longwell http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Longwell