| 1 | == Visualization == |
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| 3 | We have focused on the development of interfaces to explore and visualize Semantic Web knowledge bases. We have focused on RDFScape, a plugin that allows to integrate Semantic Web knowledge basis in Cytoscape. The objectives for this hackathons were: |
| 4 | * to make the interface more user friendly |
| 5 | * to improve robustness |
| 6 | * to collect application cases and demo. |
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| 8 | During the hackathon, the interface has been re-designed and large part of the code have been rewritten to automatize many tasks and reduced the complexity exposed to the user. |
| 9 | In this re-implementation, the plugins allows Cytoscape to be used either as: |
| 10 | * an interface to query and visualize remote sparql endpoint |
| 11 | * a tool with its integrated trisplestore (not over sparql!) |
| 12 | * a tools for interactive analysis and reasoning on ontologies and RDF models. |
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| 14 | These three operation modes have been partioned in order to simplify the user experience in specific tasks. The general robustness and the quality of the user experience has greatly improved. |
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| 16 | The re-design of the plugin is not finished yet, but almost 50% of it has been completed. Most notably most of the parts that required joint cooperation with the Cytoscape team. |
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| 18 | We didn't have the time to proceed with a collection of use cases, though we hope these will come from participants when the plugin is fully operational. |
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| 20 | Francois also illustrated the use of RelFinder, which is promising, under specific cirumstances (performant endpoint and "local enough" selections) |