This presents Falcons Explorer at Semantic Web Challenge (SWC) 2010. Falcons Explorer is a tabular and relational interface for exploring the Web of data.
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Falcons Explorer: Tabular and Relational End-user Programming for the Web of Data
1. Falcons Explorer: Tabular and Relational
End-user Programming for the Web of Data
Gong Cheng, Huiyao Wu, Saisai Gong, Weiyi Ge, Yuzhong Qu
Websoft Research Group, Nanjing University
Institute of Web Science, Southeast University
2. Gong Cheng (程龚) gcheng@seu.edu.cn
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How many Web users inside this auditorium
know how to play with RDF data?
80%
90%
100%
3. Gong Cheng (程龚) gcheng@seu.edu.cn
How many Web users outside this auditorium
know how to play with RDF data?
20%
10%
5%
4. Gong Cheng (程龚) gcheng@seu.edu.cn
But…
60% of end-user workers use
spreadsheets or databases
30% use conditional statements
(if-else) or formulas
5. Gong Cheng (程龚) gcheng@seu.edu.cn
Spreadsheet & Relational DB
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6. Gong Cheng (程龚) gcheng@seu.edu.cn
Playing with RDF data
Just As
Playing with spreadsheet or relational DB
7. Gong Cheng (程龚) gcheng@seu.edu.cn
A tabular and relational interface for exploring RDF data
Browsing
Searching
Querying
http://ws.nju.edu.cn/explorer
Falcons Explorer is …
End-user programming