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Tabulator redux: Browsing and writing linked data

Tabulator redux: Browsing and writing linked data
Tabulator redux: Browsing and writing linked data
A first category of Semantic Web browsers was designed to present a given dataset (an RDF graph) for perusal in various forms. These include mSpace, Exhibit, and to a certain extent Haystack. A second category tackled mechanisms and display issues around presenting linked data gathered on the fly. These include Tabulator, Oink, Disco, Open Link Software's Data Browser, and Object Browser. The challenge of once that data is gathered, how might it be edited, extended and annotated has so far been left largely unaddressed. This is not surprising: there are a number of steep challenges for determining how to support editing information in the open web of linked data. These include the representation of both the web of documents and the web of things, and the relationships between them; ensuring the user is aware of and has control over the social context such as licensing and privacy of data being entered, and, on a web in which anyone can say anything about anything, helping the user intuitively select the things which they actually wish to see in a given situation. There is also the view update problem: the difficulty of reflecting user edits back through functions used to map web data to a screen presentation. In the latest version of the Tabulator project, described in this paper we have focused on providing the write side of the readable/writable web. Our approach has been to allow modification and addition of information naturally within the browsing interface, and to relay changes to the server triple by triple for least possible brittleness (there is no explicit 'save' operation). Challenges that remain include the propagation of changes by collaborators back to the interface to create a shared editing system. To support writing across (semantic) Web resources, our work has contributed several technologies, including a HTTP/SPARQL/Update-based protocol between an editor (or other system) and incrementally editable resources stored in an open source, world-writable 'data wiki'. This begins enabling the writable Semantic Web.
Provenance, Read/write, Semantic web, Tabulator
1613-0073
CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Berners-Lee, T.
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Hollenbach, J.
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Lu, Kanghao
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Presbrey, J.
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Prud'ommeaux, E.
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Schraefel, M. C.
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Berners-Lee, T.
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Hollenbach, J.
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Lu, Kanghao
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Presbrey, J.
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Prud'ommeaux, E.
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Schraefel, M. C.
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Berners-Lee, T., Hollenbach, J., Lu, Kanghao, Presbrey, J., Prud'ommeaux, E. and Schraefel, M. C. (2008) Tabulator redux: Browsing and writing linked data. In Linkeddata.org. vol. 369, CEUR Workshop Proceedings..

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Abstract

A first category of Semantic Web browsers was designed to present a given dataset (an RDF graph) for perusal in various forms. These include mSpace, Exhibit, and to a certain extent Haystack. A second category tackled mechanisms and display issues around presenting linked data gathered on the fly. These include Tabulator, Oink, Disco, Open Link Software's Data Browser, and Object Browser. The challenge of once that data is gathered, how might it be edited, extended and annotated has so far been left largely unaddressed. This is not surprising: there are a number of steep challenges for determining how to support editing information in the open web of linked data. These include the representation of both the web of documents and the web of things, and the relationships between them; ensuring the user is aware of and has control over the social context such as licensing and privacy of data being entered, and, on a web in which anyone can say anything about anything, helping the user intuitively select the things which they actually wish to see in a given situation. There is also the view update problem: the difficulty of reflecting user edits back through functions used to map web data to a screen presentation. In the latest version of the Tabulator project, described in this paper we have focused on providing the write side of the readable/writable web. Our approach has been to allow modification and addition of information naturally within the browsing interface, and to relay changes to the server triple by triple for least possible brittleness (there is no explicit 'save' operation). Challenges that remain include the propagation of changes by collaborators back to the interface to create a shared editing system. To support writing across (semantic) Web resources, our work has contributed several technologies, including a HTTP/SPARQL/Update-based protocol between an editor (or other system) and incrementally editable resources stored in an open source, world-writable 'data wiki'. This begins enabling the writable Semantic Web.

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Published date: 22 April 2008
Additional Information: Session: Consuming Linked Data from the Web
Venue - Dates: WWW 2008 Workshop on Linked Data on the Web, LDOW 2008, , Beijing, China, 2008-04-22 - 2008-04-22
Keywords: Provenance, Read/write, Semantic web, Tabulator

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Local EPrints ID: 474302
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/474302
ISSN: 1613-0073
PURE UUID: 0bb390bb-494d-48e2-8588-6bbfed22fbf1
ORCID for M. C. Schraefel: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-9061-7957

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Author: T. Berners-Lee
Author: J. Hollenbach
Author: Kanghao Lu
Author: J. Presbrey
Author: E. Prud'ommeaux
Author: M. C. Schraefel ORCID iD

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