Daniel Schwabe wrote:
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Not, just trying to get Explorator and Razorbase into an "Oranges and
Oranges" comparison realm, since Razorbase is completely based on the
faceted browsing REST API.
Kingsley
Ok. I was referring more to the implied "navigation/exploration" model
that Sherman was trying to illustrate through his scenario, and not so
much about the implementation.
This actually gets back to some of the discussions we had at LODW2009,
regarding what are the really appropriate abstractions to present to
users while exploring the LOD cloud. From our experience with users,
it seems that the simple RDF model is still too low level. In
addition, users are not really used to browsing schema information
together with data (which we think of as an advantage) - we have some
scenarios in which this was clearly revealed.
So, lots of interesting topics to investigate!
Cheers
D
Yes, raw interaction with the RDF graph model can still be daunting for
higher level users, for sure. Thus, we are back to the higher level
generic RDF model API that Dan call BoxQL :-)
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