2006 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Fresnel: A Browser-Independent Presentation Vocabulary for RDF
Authors : Emmanuel Pietriga, Christian Bizer, David Karger, Ryan Lee
Published in: The Semantic Web - ISWC 2006
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Semantic Web browsers and other tools aimed at displaying RDF data to end users are all concerned with the same problem: presenting content primarily intended for machine consumption in a human-readable way. Their solutions differ but in the end address the same two high-level issues, no matter the underlying representation paradigm: specifying (i)
what
information contained in RDF models should be presented (content selection) and (ii)
how
this information should be presented (content formatting and styling). However, each tool currently relies on its own
ad hoc
mechanisms and vocabulary for specifying RDF presentation knowledge, making it difficult to share and reuse such knowledge across applications. Recognizing the general need for presenting RDF content to users and wanting to promote the exchange of presentation knowledge, we designed Fresnel as a browser-independent vocabulary of core RDF display concepts. In this paper we describe Fresnel’s main concepts and present several RDF browsers and visualization tools that have adopted the vocabulary so far.