On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:09:46 -0600, Jan Aerts <jan.ae...@esat.kuleuven.be>
wrote:
regarding the visualization of networks and RDF data. We hope to tackle
the
visual exploration of semantic web instance data
Hi all! Just wanted to toss my hat in this ring also, because the way Jan
described their approach caught my attention :-)
My feeling is that attempts to visualize RDF networks isn't going to get
us very far - the granularity of RDF data (when modeled
semantically-transparently) is simply too fine and at too "low" a level
for useful human interpretation. It seems to me that the way to go is to
attach visualization tools to a higher level of interpretation, where
there is some "meaning" to be gleaned from chunks of RDF. e.g. attach a
renderer to a particular OWL class, and then all of the *instance data*
(as Jan says) for that class can be explored with some sense of context.
Alternately, you might attach renderers to SPARQL queries in much the same
way.
As some of you know, we're already heading down this path in the C-BRASS
"personalized medicine" project (which ends in 2 weeks), as well as with
some visualization tools for SADI/SHARE. Hopefully we'll have something
to show everyone in a few days/weeks!
Mark
