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You want something "Gopher"-esque? Riley Childs Student Asst. Head of IT Services Charlotte United Christian Academy (704) 497-2086 RileyChilds.net Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes ________________________________ From: Owen Stephens<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Sent: ý3/ý22/ý2014 7:50 PM To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] semantic web browsers Your findings reflect my experience - there isn't much out there and what is basic or doesn't work at all. Link Sailor is another http://linksailor.com but I suspect not actively maintained (developed by Ian Davis when he was at Talis doing linked data work) I think the Graphite based browser from Southampton *does* support content-negotiation - what makes you think it doesn't? Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: [log in to unmask] Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 22 Mar 2014, at 20:49, Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Do you know of any working Semantic Web browsers? > > Below is a small set of easy-to-use Semantic Web browsers. Give them URIs and they allow you to follow and describe the links they include. > > * LOD Browser Switch (http://browse.semanticweb.org) - This is > really a gateway to other Semantic Web browsers. Feed it a URI > and it will create lists of URLs pointing to Semantic Web > interfaces, but many of the URLs (Semantic Web interfaces) do not > seem to work. Some of the resulting URLs point to RDF > serialization converters > > * LodLive (http://en.lodlive.it) - This Semantic Web browser > allows you to feed it a URI and interactively follow the links > associated with it. URIs can come from DBedia, Freebase, or one > of your own. > > * Open Link Data Explorer > (http://demo.openlinksw.com/rdfbrowser2/) - The most > sophisticated Semantic Web browser in this set. Given a URI it > creates various views of the resulting triples associated with > including lists of all its properties and objects, networks > graphs, tabular views, and maps (if the data includes geographic > points). > > * Quick and Dirty RDF browser > (http://graphite.ecs.soton.ac.uk/browser/) - Given the URL > pointing to a file of RDF statements, this tool returns all the > triples in the file and verbosely lists each of their predicate > and object values. Quick and easy. This is a good for reading > everything about a particular resource. The tool does not seem > to support content negotiation. > > If you need some URIs to begin with, then try some of these: > > * Ray Family Papers - http://infomotions.com/sandbox/liam/data/mum432.rdf > * Catholics and Jews - http://infomotions.com/sandbox/liam/data/shumarc681792.rdf > * Walt Disney via VIAF - http://viaf.org/viaf/36927108/ > * origami via the Library of Congress - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85095643 > * Paris from DBpedia - http://dbpedia.org/resource/Paris > > To me, this seems like a really small set of browser possibilities. I’ve seen others but could not get them to work very well. Do you know of others? Am I missing something significant? > > — > Eric Lease Morgan