News from Buckybase, the hypermicrodatabase by Manuel Simoni.

Friday, June 27, 2008

The simplest semantic web UI

Buckybase probably has the simplest user interface to enter linked data.

Now, triples are embedded in the HTML using RDFa.



Point the RDFa distiller at e.g. Bob Dylan's Time out of Mind and it will emit this RDF resource:
<rdf:Description rdf:about="http://buckybase.appspot.com/manuel/time-out-of-mind">
<bb:rating rdf:resource="http://buckybase.appspot.com/manuel/5"/>
<bb:date rdf:resource="http://buckybase.appspot.com/manuel/1997"/>
<bb:artist rdf:resource="http://buckybase.appspot.com/manuel/bob-dylan"/>
<bb:category rdf:resource="http://buckybase.appspot.com/manuel/album"/>
<bb:location rdf:resource="http://buckybase.appspot.com/manuel/new-orleans"/>
<bb:location rdf:resource="http://buckybase.appspot.com/manuel/usa"/>
</rdf:Description>
Update: The RDFa Highlight bookmarklet can visualize the triples:



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