With gFacet we introduce a new approach to browsing RDF data by combining graph-based visualization with faceted filtering techniques. The graph-based visualization of facets supports the integration of different domains and an efficient exploration of highly structured and interrelated datasets. It allows to access information from distant user-defined perspectives and thereby enables the exploration beyond the borders of Web pages.

Experience gFacet by an Interactive Demo or by watching a Screencast
(get screencast at a high-definition resolution here).

Both the interactive demo and the screencast use DBpedia's SPARQL endpoint to access information that is extracted from Wikipedia.
Preview

See also how gFacet deals with music data by clicking here.

The newest features can be tested in the Beta version under: http://beta.gfacet.org/.


Logo of gFacet
The source code of gFacet is published under the GNU General Public License and hosted on Google Code under http://code.google.com/p/gfacet/ (!the code is currently under construction!).

Publications

gFacet: A Browser for the Web of Data

Heim, P.; Ziegler, J.; Lohmann, S. (2008)
Auer, S.; Dietzold, S.; Lohmann, S.; Ziegler, J. (Hrsg.): Proceedings of the International Workshop on Interacting with Multimedia Content in the Social Semantic Web (IMC-SSW'08), S. 49-58
Aachen: CEUR-WS
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