Adapting the LodView RDF Browser for Navigation over the Multilingual Linguistic Linked Open Data Cloud

TL;DR

This paper adapts LodView, a RDF browser, to better navigate the multilingual Linguistic Linked Open Data cloud by identifying limitations and proposing targeted improvements, some of which are partially implemented.

Contribution

It defines the class of Pubby-like tools, analyzes LodView's limitations for multilingual LOD, and proposes specific enhancements to improve its functionality.

Findings

Identified key limitations of LodView for multilingual data navigation.

Proposed nine specific improvements including Cyrillic URI support and LaTeX math notation.

Partially implemented several proposed enhancements.

Abstract

The paper is dedicated to the use of LodView for navigation over the multilingual Linguistic Linked Open Data cloud. First, we define the class of Pubby-like tools, that LodView belongs to, and clarify the relation of this class to the classes of URI dereferenciation tools, RDF browsers and LOD visualization tools. Second, we reveal several limitations of LodView that impede its use for the designated purpose, and propose improvements to be made for fixing these limitations. These improvements are: 1) resolution of Cyrillic URIs; 2) decoding Cyrillic URIs in Turtle representations of resources; 3) support of Cyrillic literals; 4) user-friendly URLs for RDF representations of resources; 5) support of hash URIs; 6) expanding nested resources; 7) support of RDF collections; 8) pagination of resource property values; and 9) support of $\LaTeX$ math notation. Third, we partially implement several of the proposed improvements.