Tim Berners-Lee!! The guy who invented WWW! @@ This is no simple widget. From what I understand this enables to get a global view how data is related, the semantics - a kind of data map?
i'm with basti2015, i havent clue what this software is suppose to do, needs a LESS scientific description and perhaps they should include a walk through in the program to show how its supposed to work and what you should get from it.
rmccabe916 - i looked at this and tried msn.com i can see the the little nodes but i thought it would let you click on them to investigate them more closely but it doesn't so you cant see what page represents the key it is listed against, which is a shame really as it would be nice to see all the pages of the website and make bookmarks to anything of interest. and of course see something new that i have never seen on the website in question.
rmccabe916, that does a different thing, looking at the structure of a given HTML page. RDF is a different XML language, used to encode information that can be connected together.
E.g. at http://my.opera.com/chaals/xml/foaf/ you can find an RDF file about me (it is some of the public data from my.opera about me). It points to some other files, too. If you load my file into tabulator, you can then follow links to the other files, and load them in as well, adding to the graph.
(You can also look up some stuff on maps, where the data includes references to places, and you can run queries on all the data you have loaded, and so on)
Basti2015, it is for browsing RDF information - "the semantic web". So you can find some data that is linked to other data and start looking around.
RDF is meant mostly for machines, rather than people, to read, but this tool presents a lot of useful information (the connections between people, projects, pictures, and each other, for example) in a way that uses the RDF to make something people can read.
(It is also useful for semantic web developers, of course).
This is a large area of information management - if that is your field then it is something you should be aware of.
If you're looking for something that looks cool, you might like to try the aquarium widget or something else - this is a technical demo, not something that is really important for everyone to have. (And it isn't the prettiest application there ever was. First step is to make it work...)
One example, of what RDF is good for in general:
The power of the semantic web is building things that are like databases, but more easily connected. If you build a jetliner, you probably have information about who worked on what part of the plane, on how old your staff are, on what areas have caused problems in engineering, and so on.
Normally this information is in very different places. If it is all RDF, it is very easy to ask "what are the areas of the plane where everyone who worked on it will retire in the next 7 years?". Because, since aeroplane projects run for about 50 years, you will need to hire new people in those areas to learn from the old people *well before* you run out of people who know.
For any given question, RDF is not the only answer, of course. But the technology is useful for collecting a huge amount of very different information together, and then letting you ask questions nobody ever imagined before - something that most other inforamtion management technology is actually not as good at.
This is no simple widget. From what I understand this enables to get a global view how data is related, the semantics - a kind of data map?
Gonna check this out closer... will definitely need the the tutorials http://dig.csail.mit.edu/2005/ajar/ajaw/Help.html
but seems a bit abandoned...??
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rmccabe916 - i looked at this and tried msn.com i can see the the little nodes but i thought it would let you click on them to investigate them more closely but it doesn't so you cant see what page represents the key it is listed against, which is a shame really as it would be nice to see all the pages of the website and make bookmarks to anything of interest. and of course see something new that i have never seen on the website in question.
anonyy 作 , # 2008/05/24 10:18:25
steve_somers@hotmail.com 作 , # 2007/05/06 15:01:54
E.g. at http://my.opera.com/chaals/xml/foaf/ you can find an RDF file about me (it is some of the public data from my.opera about me). It points to some other files, too. If you load my file into tabulator, you can then follow links to the other files, and load them in as well, adding to the graph.
(You can also look up some stuff on maps, where the data includes references to places, and you can run queries on all the data you have loaded, and so on)
chaals 作 , # 2006/08/30 10:43:33
Too bad it runs in Java, though.
rmccabe916 作 , # 2006/08/26 2:21:01
basti2015 作 , # 2006/08/24 14:42:16
RDF is meant mostly for machines, rather than people, to read, but this tool presents a lot of useful information (the connections between people, projects, pictures, and each other, for example) in a way that uses the RDF to make something people can read.
(It is also useful for semantic web developers, of course).
This is a large area of information management - if that is your field then it is something you should be aware of.
If you're looking for something that looks cool, you might like to try the aquarium widget or something else
One example, of what RDF is good for in general:
The power of the semantic web is building things that are like databases, but more easily connected. If you build a jetliner, you probably have information about who worked on what part of the plane, on how old your staff are, on what areas have caused problems in engineering, and so on.
Normally this information is in very different places. If it is all RDF, it is very easy to ask "what are the areas of the plane where everyone who worked on it will retire in the next 7 years?". Because, since aeroplane projects run for about 50 years, you will need to hire new people in those areas to learn from the old people *well before* you run out of people who know.
For any given question, RDF is not the only answer, of course. But the technology is useful for collecting a huge amount of very different information together, and then letting you ask questions nobody ever imagined before - something that most other inforamtion management technology is actually not as good at.
(This is the rough idea, anyway
chaals 作 , # 2006/08/23 16:27:47
maybe you could improve the description
basti2015 作 , # 2006/08/23 15:52:06