Juan Sequeda wrote: > Kingsley, > > Definitely without a good UI, it is very hard to use this. But please understand, we built a faceted "search and find" engine with an *API for Linked Data application developers* to use [1]. The basic UI was about demonstrating the capabilities of the underlying engine which comes down to the time-less challenge of scalable faceted search, find, and reasoner based data reconciliation over Billions of triples.
Searching on pattern: Johann, using either faceted "search and find" UI is how you get to the essence of the matter addressed by our engine level (which I also outlined in my initial response to Christian). Your response falls into to the same category as those seeking a better DBpedia UI from the same folks responsible for preparing and publishing its Linked Data corpus. I maintain that Linked Data -- a by-product of HTTP's sophistication -- is about separation and specialization, everyone has a binding layer that aligns to their interests and skill set. For instance, going back to a time long before the Web, we had this kind of separation in the ODBC realm. By this I mean: one set of people built ODBC compliant applications, another set built ODBC drivers. The success of ODBC (to this very day) lies in the fact the ODBC compliant applications are distinct from ODBC drivers . When all is said and done, Linked Data is a more powerful solution for the problem space addressed by ODBC, so best to embrace and extend the best practices from that realm. Links: 1. http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/dataspace/dav/wiki/Main/VirtuosoFacetsWebService Kingsley > > When I get to step 2, I see 4312 types. Am I suppose to go through all > of these and select the ones I need? There should be a unselect all > button. > > How can I use lod.openlinksw.com <http://lod.openlinksw.com> to FIND > all actors who were born in NYC and died in 2003 in NYC? it is very > easy to do it with the dbpedia faceted browser: > > http://dbpedia.neofonie.de/browse/rdf-type:Actor/personBirthPlace:New%20York%20City/personDeathPlace:New%20York%20City/personDeathDate-year:2003/?fc=12 Yes, the UI isn't as easy as Christian's for this specific query (which requires yanking out the "year of death" from the typed literal data for date of death). Just as Christian's browser doesn't handle the ambiguous quest for pattern: Johann (which requires the use of entity "Type" and "Properties" pivoting to disambiguate the underlying query). Kingsley > > Juan Sequeda, Ph.D Student > Dept. of Computer Sciences > The University of Texas at Austin > www.juansequeda.com <http://www.juansequeda.com> > www.semanticwebaustin.org <http://www.semanticwebaustin.org> > > > On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Kingsley Idehen > <kide...@openlinksw.com <mailto:kide...@openlinksw.com>> wrote: > > Grobe, David Michael wrote: > > hello: > > > > I can't find Johann Wolfgang von Goethe using new faceted > browser...starting with "Johan" in the Persons section, but I can > find him by starting with birthdate... > > > > can someone tell me why? > > > > thanks, > > > > michael grobe > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Come build with us! 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If need be click on "Properties" to further filter by properties > 5. At anytime, click "show distinct values with count" or "show > values" > to see result of your filtering > > That's it. > > UI could be better, but we've focused on the harder task of > building an > engine that offers faceted "search and find" :-) > > > -- > > > Regards, > > Kingsley Idehen Weblog: > http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen > <http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/%7Ekidehen> > President & CEO > OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA > is the only developer event you need to attend this year. > Jumpstart your > developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market > and stay > ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. 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