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An Educational Tool for an Interactive Faceted Exploration of DBpedia Life Sciences Data

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Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2013 (WISE 2013)

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As the volume of information on the Web and the number of Linked Open Data sources increase considerably, users need easy to use Web-based tools and applications to help them navigate, interpret and make use of the available information/data. In this context, we introduce RDFSpecies, as an educational tool for interactive exploration of Semantic Web data. Our approach is targeted at users that have no experience or little knowledge of RDF model and Semantic Web technologies. We make use of different interaction metaphors to aid them in navigating, exploring and visualizing DBpedia data.

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  1. Faculty of Computer Science, A.I. Cuza University of Iasi, Romania

    Stefan Negru & Sabin C. Buraga

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  1. The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Xuemin Lin

  2. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Yannis Manolopoulos

  3. AT&T Labs-Research, Florham Park, NJ, USA

    Divesh Srivastava

  4. Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

    Guangyan Huang

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Negru, S., Buraga, S.C. (2013). An Educational Tool for an Interactive Faceted Exploration of DBpedia Life Sciences Data. In: Lin, X., Manolopoulos, Y., Srivastava, D., Huang, G. (eds) Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2013. WISE 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8181. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41154-0_39

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