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triplify.org : Challenge

Wow! The triplification challenges sounds attractive.. Win a MacBook 

I hope the linked data web will really grow with tools like Triplify.

StYLiD: Social Information Sharing with Free Creation of Structured Linked Data

I presented this paper about StYLiD in the Social Web and Knowledge Management Workshop (SWKM 2008), April 22nd, co-located at the 17th World Wide Web Conference WWW2008, Beijing, China. It was a half-day workshop with only 6 selected papers. The session was interesting and very relevant to my area of research.  This was my first time to attend the WWW conference. Quite an honor to be in such a great conference

Here is my paper and here are my slides.

Linked data browsers « Aman’s Blog

Some more linked data browsers were presented in the WWW 2008 conference, Beijing. I noted these few.

• Fenfire
• Humboldt
• Marbles

Please update me if there are more linked data browsers

I just came back from Seattle, USA after doing a poster presentation of StYLiD (Structure Your own Linked Data) in the second International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2008). Seattle is a great place to be

You may download the poster here. This is the poster paper. The system is online. You may register your account for free and start using it!

Recently, I was playing with several linked data browsers to view data from StYLiD. Amazing to see so many data browsers available today

• Tabulator
• OpenLink RDF browser
• Zitgist data viewer
• Disco - Hyperdata browser
• Object viewer
• RDFViz
• OINK
• Longwell
• BrowseRDF
• /facet

There are also many RDF visualization tools like

• RDF Gravity
  
• IsaViz
• Brownsauce

…. and so on. Wow! what an impressive list. Please add to it if I missed some.

However, I do not think that these generic RDF or linked data browsers will be useful or usable for general users, who do not know what is RDF or Semantic Web. The user will get lost in the complex data network, with lot of wanted and unwanted data, shown monotonously. I feel that it would be better to hide all this data network from the user and rather provide them useful functionalities or present only some useful data in user friendly way.

Welcome to Linked Data Planet

This seems to be a significant conference, all about the Linked Data web.