Yeah, this is certainly one of the big difficulty here. How to create an interface that would be intuitive to use for any Web user? The question is really not easy to answer. Hopefully RDF is a good way to describe things, and it is not that difficulte to manypulate the data. However, I big job has to be done to hide everything and create an environment where users can navigate without thinking about what is going on here, what should I do to find what I think, to understand the information I see, etc. The experience should be the same as the one they currently have while navigating the web.

Well this is the path I got. Not trying to innovate in a new and flashy interface, but trying to innovate in the opposite way: creating traditional web pages for the Semantic Web (and trying to stick as close as possible for the behavior of the search engine… that portion is really not that easy to create since the queries are quite different).

However I think I reached some of my goals so far, I have much work to do, but the development is going pretty well.

Take care and thanks for your interest in Zitgist,

Salutations,

Fred

I couldn’t develop the universal interface for work with RDF model. May be, it is impossible and in real project we must hide RDF models under ordinary GUIs What do you think about this?

It is what I am hoping: getting more attention to the semantic web. Slowly but surely, the SemWeb is getting more and more traction out there. Unfortunately this is not an open project, however it will closely work with its users and data provider (so, any people publishing RDF data) since best practices for the semantic web have to be written and everybody should participate to the task.

Take care,

Fred