Vineet Sinha wrote:
> And another project, Relo: http://relo.csail.mit.edu/
>
> {disclaimer: I am the main developer behind Relo}
Looks good! Wish I had this sort of stuff back in my coding days.
However..=
>
> Relo does allow answering the question of the type in your example,
> i.e. ‘show me all authors who have published with penguin’. I'm
> seriously considering adding a faceted refinement interface (similar
> to longwell / magnet) and I'd be interested in helping build features
> to answer other more complex questions, using visualization or more
> traditional techniques.
Relo provides visualization and manipulation capabilities for what are
nicely structured domains - a set of classes inheriting from and coupled
with each other make for a very neat graph. there's also the fact that
the relationships between the nodes in the graph are of a limited finite
type,
which can then be coded for. I think Relo's a great example of domain
specific RDF visualization, but what I want to do is something generic that
isn't tied down to a specific representation.
>
> The fundamental differences between Welkin and Relo, is that Relo
> focuses on:
>
> ]]] Usability: I have tried hard to hide the RDF, so that end users do
> not need to worry about it. Also, to make sure that the tool is usable
> we are answering the same questions that you have one domain at a
> time. We have done the engineering for the software engineering
> domain, and are currently working for expanding support other domains
> and general RDF.
>
> ]]] Size/Scale: Relo is designed to look at *parts* of *large* graphs
> of information. Visualization techniques have shown to work poorly
> showing large graphs, so we are spending time figuring out how to
> select portions of the graphs to show to the user.
This is where I differ - I'm not building a graph visualization tool,
which emphasises node objects and spatial relationships. Not everything
that is expressible as an RDF graph *is* actually a graph, nor in many
cases is a graph representation the best way to understand RDF, so I'd
rather be able to look at RDF as both multivariate data and as graph data.
>
> If you have chance, I'd be interested in hearing a citique of Relo.
If I can get it to run, that is :) When I open a Relo session with a
project or two opened, i get a dialog box asking me to select a path to
open, with no paths to open. I'm not sure what I should be doing with
it, but we can take that discussion offline.
>
> Vineet
>
>
>
> Prokopp, Christian wrote:
>> Have a look at
>> http://semweb.salzburgresearch.at/apps/rdf-gravity/index.html too if
>> you did not yet.
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> *From:* Arvind Venkataramani [mailto:arvind_at_cc.gatech.edu]
>> *Sent:* Friday, 03 February 2006 5:44 AM
>> *To:* general_at_simile.mit.edu
>> *Subject:* reworking welkin
>>
>> So I’m taking an information visualization class, and I’ve been doing
>> some research on classification in social bookmarking systems. And it
>> struck me that the best thing to do is to put the two together.
>>
>>
>>
>> Here’s the idea: to combine RDF statement based navigation - ‘show
>> me all authors [subject] who have published [predicate] with penguin
>> [object]’ - with multi-dimensional info vis techniques to make welkin
>> more powerful and adaptable to different contexts and purposes.
>>
>>
>>
>> I’d like to figure out how much interest there is in this, and what
>> people want. (of course, since I’m studying HCI, I’ll do my gosh
>> darned best to make sure it is usable). So:
>>
>>
>>
>> 1. What are you people using welkin for? What kind of data?
>>
>> 2. What kinds of questions do you want answered using an info-vis?
>>
>> 3. What problems do you have with welkin as it is now? What are
>> the things you wish you could do, but can’t?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks a ton in advance, and I’m really open to suggestions:
>> user-centred design and all that :)
>>
>>
>>
>> -- arvind
>>
>> ms/hci | gvu center | georgiatech
>
Received on Sat Feb 04 2006 - 00:41:01 EST