This document discusses different ways that humans can consume linked data, including through HTML browsers, linked data browsers, faceted browsers, and on-the-fly mashups. It notes that Google and Yahoo are starting to crawl RDFa to surface semantic information, and that linked data browsers allow viewing linked data returned from URIs in tabular form. It calls for creating new innovative ways to interact with linked data and partnering with the HCI community to develop novel user interfaces.

1. Consuming Linked Data by Humans Consuming Linked Data Tutorial International Semantic Web Conference 2009

2. Consuming Linked Data by Humans HTML Browsers Linked Data Browsers Faceted Browsers On-the-fly Mashups Come up with another paradigm and become the next …

3. HTML Browsers

4. Links to other URIs

5. <span rel="foaf:interest"> <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Database" property="dcterms:title">Database</a>, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data_integration" property="dcterms:title">Data Integration</a>, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Semantic_Web" property="dcterms:title">Semantic Web</a>, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" property="dcterms:title">Linked Data</a>, etc.</span>

6. HTML Browsers RDF can be serialized in RDFa Have you heard of Yahoo’s Search Monkey Google Rich Snippets? They are consuming RDFa But WHY?

7. Because there is life beyond ten blue links

9. Google and Yahoo are starting to crawl RDFa! The Semantic Web is a reality!

10. The Reality Yahoo is crawling data that is in RDFa and Microformats under a specific vocabularies FOAF GoodRelations … Google is crawling RDFa and Microformats that use the Google vocabulary How much of this is Linked Data I don’t know

11. Linked Data Browsers

12. Linked Data Browsers Not actually separate browsers. Run inside of HTML browsers View the data that is returned after looking up a URI in tabular form (IMO) UI lacks usability

14. Linked Data Browsers Tabulator http://www.w3.org/2005/ajar/tab OpenLink http://ode.openlinksw.com/ ZitgistDataviewr http://dataviewer.zitgist.com/ Marbles http://www5.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/marbles/ Explorator http://www.tecweb.inf.puc-rio.br/explorator Sema5 (??) http://sema5.com

15. Faceted Browsers

16. http://dbpedia.neofonie.de

17. On-the-fly Mashups

18. http://sig.ma

19. What’s next?

20. Time to create new and innovative ways to interact with Linked Data

21. This may be one of the Killer Apps that we have all been waiting for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mosaic_browser_plaque_ncsa.jpg

22. It’s time to partner with HCI community

23. Visual Interfaces to the Social and Semantic Web (VISSW 2010)http://www.smart-ui.org/events/vissw2010/

24. Questions?