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Will this work for Susan? Challenges for delivering usable and useful generic linked data browsers

Will this work for Susan? Challenges for delivering usable and useful generic linked data browsers
Will this work for Susan? Challenges for delivering usable and useful generic linked data browsers
While we witness an explosion of exploration tools for simple datasets on Web 2.0 designed for use by ordinary citizens, the goal of a usable interface for supporting navigation and sense-making over arbitrary linked data has remained elusive. The purpose of this paper is to analyse why - what makes exploring linked data so hard? Through a user-centered use case scenario, we work through requirements for sense making with data to extract functional requirements and to compare these against our tools to see what challenges emerge to deliver a useful, usable knowledge building experience with linked data. We present presentation layer and heterogeneous data integration challenges and offer practical considerations for moving forward to effective linked data sensemaking tools.
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schraefel, mc, Smith, Daniel Alexander, Popov, Igor, Van Kleek, Max and Shadbolt, Nigel (2010) Will this work for Susan? Challenges for delivering usable and useful generic linked data browsers University of Southampton (In Press)

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Abstract

While we witness an explosion of exploration tools for simple datasets on Web 2.0 designed for use by ordinary citizens, the goal of a usable interface for supporting navigation and sense-making over arbitrary linked data has remained elusive. The purpose of this paper is to analyse why - what makes exploring linked data so hard? Through a user-centered use case scenario, we work through requirements for sense making with data to extract functional requirements and to compare these against our tools to see what challenges emerge to deliver a useful, usable knowledge building experience with linked data. We present presentation layer and heterogeneous data integration challenges and offer practical considerations for moving forward to effective linked data sensemaking tools.

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Accepted/In Press date: 29 June 2010
Organisations: Web & Internet Science, Agents, Interactions & Complexity

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Local EPrints ID: 271967
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/271967
PURE UUID: b5e5573d-c6af-4b30-b015-a1c36d67fa21
ORCID for mc schraefel: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-9061-7957

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Date deposited: 31 Jan 2011 13:20
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:16

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Author: mc schraefel ORCID iD
Author: Daniel Alexander Smith
Author: Igor Popov
Author: Max Van Kleek
Author: Nigel Shadbolt

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