Collaborative Semantic Web Browsing with Magpie

Abstract

Abstract. Web browsing is often a collaborative activity. Users involved in a joint information gathering exercise will wish to share knowledge about the web pages visited and the contents found. Magpie is a suite of tools supporting the interpretation of web pages and semantically enriched web browsing. By automatically associating an ontology-based semantic layer to web resources, Magpie allows relevant services to be invoked as well as remotely triggered within a standard web browser. In this paper we describe how Magpie trigger services can provide semantic support to collaborative browsing activities.

Ontology Evaluation Based on the Visualization Methods, Context and Summaries

“…For example, such problem can be a decision in the form of selection of an ontology for a system Magpie [7]. The system needs to load a suitable ontology for a given domain.…”

PolyChrome

“…Collaborative web browsing [9,14] involves multiple users viewing a single webpage collaboratively using their individual devices through synchronous or asynchronous coupling of their browser interfaces. Traditionally, this is accomplished either by replicating the content of one browser over the connected browsers in distributed collaboration or by allowing virtual avatars to operate on a single web browser in case of co-located collaboration.…”

“…In parallel development, the web is quickly turning into a prime platform for managing and analyzing large amounts of data using visualization [7] and visual analytics [33]. Collaborative web browsing [9,14] (cobrowsing), where browsers on multiple different devices are connected, is one paradigm that allow us to combine both of these trends to enable cross-device interaction [42]. So far mostly restricted to applications within human-computer interaction, co-browsing synchronizes browsers by sharing both current browser state and interaction events, including navigation through scrolling, selection through mouse clicks, and input from keyboard and touch displays.…”

Opening Up Magpie via Semantic Services

“…Otherwise, the trigger task behaves as a standard service; it takes the asserted data as an input and distributes an alert to all those users who subscribed to the trigger. An example of how this trigger functionality has been used to facilitate team collaboration is discussed in [6].…”

“…Magpie [5][6][7] is a suite of tools supporting a 'zero-cost' approach to semantic web browsing. It avoids the need for manual annotation by automatically associating an ontology-based semantic layer to web resources.…”