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Welkin: A General-Purpose RDF Browser

Posted by timothy on from the what-am-I-thinking-about dept.

Stefano Mazzocchi writes "Many consider the Semantic Web to be vaporware and others believe it's the next big thing. No matter where you stand, a question always pops up: Where is the RDF browser? The SIMILE Project, a joint project between W3C, MIT and HP to implement semantic interoperability of metadata in digital libraries, released today the first beta release of a general purpose graphic and interactive RDF browser named Welkin (see a screenshot), targetted to those who need to get a mental model of any RDF dataset, from a single RSS 1.0 news feed to a collection of digital data."

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  1. Semantic Web Firefox plugin? by otisg · · Score: 5, Funny

    Considering the big 1.0 for Firefox is out, I would think people who wanted their Semantic Web browsing software to be wide-spread would implement it as a Firefox plugin, no?

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  2. Re:The question is not about a browser by mat+catastrophe · · Score: 4, Funny

    but about how quickly can Microsoft turn it into a security hole for your friends and family?

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  3. Re:The question is not about a browser by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I do not know what you are talking about.

  4. The semantic web, in a nutshell by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    1) people like to masturbate.

    2) some people like to look at pictures of naked girls while masturbating.

    3) some people like to think about graph theory while masturbating.

    The semantic web is the unfortunate result of #3.

    Now, while I have no problem with any of these behaviors, I do ask that people in group #2 to keep their sticky dirty magazines under their bed, not on their coffee tables; and people in group #3 to likewise keep their inventions locked in the closet, and not release them to standards bodies or working groups.

    So when you see someone in a clear frenzy of sexual excitement talking to you about "ontologies" and "reification", simply smile politely, and call the police.

    Remember, these people are the exception, not the norm, in an otherwise healthy society.

  5. Re:The question is not about a browser by greg_barton · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nobody wants to hire a team of ontological engineers to map information they already have in human accessible form into some highly structured, machine parseable format, and pay them to keep that information up-to-date.

    Please don't tell that to the company I'm interviewing with on Friday. :)