Paper Info
Title
Building a Usable and Accessible Semantic Web Interaction Platform
Abstract
Semantic Web applications take off is being slower than expected, at least with respect to "real-world" applications and users. One of the main reasons for this lack of adoption is that most Semantic Web user interfaces are still immature from the usability and accessibility points of view. This is due to the novelty of these technologies, but this also motivates the exploration of alternative interaction paradigms, different from the "traditional" Web or Desktop applications ones. Our proposal is realized in the Rhizomer platform, which explores the possibilities of the object---action interaction paradigm at the Web scale. This paradigm is well suited for heterogeneous resource spaces such as those common in the Semantic Web. Resources, described by metadata, correspond to the objects in the paradigm. Semantic web services, which are dynamically associated to these objects, correspond to the actions. The platform is being put into practice in the context of a research project in order to build an open application for media distribution based on Semantic Web technologies. Moreover, its usability and accessibility have been evaluated in this real setting and compared to similar systems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1007/s11280-009-0076-2
World Wide Web
Keywords
Field
DocType
Semantic Web,interaction,usability,accessibility
World Wide Web,Semantic Web Stack,Computer science,Web standards,Web engineering,Data Web,Semantic Web,Semantic analytics,Web modeling,Social Semantic Web
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
13
1-2
1386-145X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
12
0.86
20
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Roberto García119417.34
Juan Manuel Gimeno2485.20
Ferran Perdrix3646.00
Rosa Gil418824.48
Marta Oliva58211.65
Juan Miguel López68710.15
Afra Pascual7516.50
Montserrat Sendín8264.85