Magpie: Browsing and Navigating on the Semantic Web
(2004) Magpie: Browsing and Navigating on the Semantic Web. In Nunes, Nuno and Rich, Charles, Eds. Proceedings ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), pages pp. 191-197, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal.
Full text available as:
 | PDF - Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader or other PDF viewer. |
We describe several advanced functionalities of Magpie – a tool that assists users with interpreting the web resources. Magpie is an extension to the Internet Explorer that automatically creates a semantic layer for web pages using a user-selected ontology. Semantic layers are annotations of a web page, with a set of applicable semantic services attached to the annotated items. We argue that the ability to generate different semantic layers for a web resource is vital to support the interpretation of web pages. Moreover, the assignment of semantic web services to the entities allows users to browse their neighbourhood semantically. At the same time, the Magpie suite offers trigger functionality based on the patterns of an automatically updated semantic log. The benefits of such an approach are illustrated by a semantically enriched browsing history management.
| Keywords: | [Hypertext/Hypermedia]: Architecture, Navigation, User Issues – semantic web browsing, semantic services, browsing history management |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | AKT Challenges > Knowledge reuse Status > AKT Submitted AKT Challenges > Knowledge publishing |
| ID Code: | 298 |
| Deposited By: | Dzbor, Dr Martin |
| Deposited On: | 28 May 2004 |
| Alternative Locations: | http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/dzbor/public/2004/domingue-dzbor-motta-iui2004.pdf |
Contact the site administrator at: hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk