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Humans and the Web of Data
Tom HeathPlatform DivisionTalis Information Ltd
[email protected]://tomheath.com/http://www.talis.com/platform
Triple-I Keynote, 5 September 2008
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Structure
1. Assumptions
2. Browsing the Web of Data
3. Interaction Widgets for the Web of Data
4. Social Networks, Recommendations and Trust
5. Closing Remarks
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My Assumptions about the Semantic Web
1. It's a Web of Data • nothing more, nothing less (for now)
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My Assumptions about the Semantic Web
1. It's a Web of Data • nothing more, nothing less (for now)
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"Linked Data is the Semantic Web done right, and the Web done right" – Tim Berners-Lee
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My Assumptions about the Semantic Web
2. It's not fiction, but fact
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The Linking Open Data "Cloud" – May 2007
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The Linking Open Data "Cloud" – March 2008
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Humans and the Web of Data
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What does it mean to "Browse" the Web of Data?
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Not Document Browsers, but Thing Browsers
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http://dbpedia.org/resource/Brandenburg_Gate
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[Dbpedia Mobile of Brandenburg Gate]
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Browsing in Multiple Dimensions
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Interaction Widgets for Browsing the Web of Data
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Social Networks, Recommendations and Trust
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- Who knows what?
- Who is the best person to ask?
- How to find out?
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[Hoonoh Home Page Screenshot]
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Trust Factors in Recommendation Seeking
• Experience• Expertise• Impartiality• Affinity• Track Record
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Conclusions
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Take-home Message
A Web of machine-readable data is even more interesting from a human than a machine perspective
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Take-home Thought 1
Search and Browse are great for Documents – but what other kinds of tasks can we enable with a
Web of Data?
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Take-home Thought 2
There's nothing special about the Social Web!
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Thank you
• Acknowledgements– Christian Becker and Chris Bizer, FU Berlin
(Marbles + DBpediaMobile)– Greg Williams (Photo credits)– AKT Project (Funding for Revyu and Hoonoh)
• Further reading– Sept/Oct 2008 issue of IEEE Internet Computing– http://linkeddata.org/
• Contact Details– [email protected]– http://tomheath.com/– http://www.talis.com/platform
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