Example Interactive Semantic Web Applications

Demos

• CHIP
• /facet (click on one of the headings All Objects, Style or Artists) (MultimediaN E-Culture).
• Exploratory search in e-culture (MultimediaN E-Culture)
• News demo (K-Space)
• selecting thesaurus terms to annotate prints (MultimediaN E-Culture)
• Comparison search tutorial and demo (MultimediaN E-Culture)
• mSpace

Videos

• Parallax video - exploring freebase data
• What will the semantic web do for us?
• Facet browsing in /facet - watch the movie and follow the slides

Michiel Hildebrand: Interactive exploration of heterogeneous cultural heritage collections and Design and evaluation of an open annotation tool.
Meaningful presentations, Vox Populi talk and demo.
Bringing the IPTC News Architecture into the Semantic Web.

Other potentially interesting sites

Semantic search survey by Michiel Hildebrand.
These show interesting interfaces:

• openAcademia shows several visualizations of search results (tagcloud, topic graph, relation browser.
• OntoWiki follows the wiki style with faceted navigation, map and calendar visualization.
• Tabulator (Tim Berners-Lee) is available as a Firefox extension. Very simple interface, which effectively shows (and allows navigation) of the raw graph structure (not included in the survey).

These are more oriented to search.

• Swoogle, best known semantic web search engine.
• Squiggle is a simple but effective interface for recommendation and search in music.
• SemSearch allows simple semi-structured input queries.
• Freebase, an open shared database of the world's knowledge (not strictly semantic web, but similar goals).

Vox Populi, a system for generating video sequences based on argument structures.

Semantic Web Resources

How Will We Interact with the Web of Data? by Tom Heath.
Semantic Web Challenge, in particular the 2008 winner paggr.

Wordnet is an existing English language thesaurus from Princeton that has been converted to RDF.
Dublin Core (DC), VRA Core are vocabularies for describing resources. VRA Core is specialised for works of visual culture as well as the images that document them.
SKOS, Simple Knowledge Organisation System, is a family of formal languages, built on RDF and RDFS, designed for the representation of structured controlled vocabularies, such as thesauri or classification schemes.
FOAF (Friend of a Friend) a means of creating links among people on the Web, also the FOAF project, in particular the explorer.

Random Useful Links

• Seminal article on the notion of mechanised support for access to information. Quoted by both the hypertext and digital library communities.
  As We May Think by Vannevar Bush.
• Weaving the Web, the story of the Web from Tim Berners-Lee himself.
• "Understanding Comics" by Scott McCloud for a discussion of the whys and wherefors of text and images and mixes of the two.

Web Design

• Cool examples of CSS.
• "Don't Make Me Think : A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability" by Steve Krug for a simple but fundamental approach to information design work.
• Usability for the Web: Designing Web Sites that Work, The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies.
• Exhibit allows you to combine different interfaces into a single one. For example, a time and place visualization of American Presidents using both a map and a timeline.

Semantic Web

• "The Semantic Web: an Introduction" by Sean B. Palmer
• Handy Semantic Web reference cheat sheet. Click on the pdf logo for an A4 version.
• Article explaining the (many) connections and similarities of hypermedia research and the Semantic Web.
• Article about Semantic Web applications
  "Usability and the Semantic Web" by Anthony Jameson. Slides of talk
• Semantic Web application examples RDFa bookmarklets
• Discussion of whether entities should be able to be modelled at the class and instance level simultaneously.
  Representing Classes As Property Values on the Semantic Web

Facet Browsing

• Flamenco paper Faceted Metadata for Image Search and Browsing and demo.
• Longwell and demo
• Facet browsing at Ebay
• Eculture's /facet