Comments/Proposals on prototype semantic-frontend

[giorgialodi]

We defined a preliminary prototype of the front-end of the catalogue/registry of ontologies and controlled vocabularies. The prototype is reported in the readme of the semantic_frontend directory. Provide comments/feedback/any idea to enhance it. Bear in mind one of the main objectives: to allow more people (expert and non expert users) to become familiar with the data models that will be made available through the catalogue/registry itself.
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[marco-brandizi]

Not sure this is the right place for the following (sorry, I've already written this twice today :-) ), but let's see.

What it's being proposed here, if I get it right, seems to be an ontology/schema browser. Sounds nice, one thing worth to add is a couple of links to similar projects (well and less known): the LOV browser, fairsharing.org.

Apart from that, I would be interested in developing an interface targeting the non IT user, but those who are expert in data and data analysis, e.g., statisticians, data journalists, which would allow users to browse/search the DAF for contents they're interested in. For example, regarding the browsing functionality, they could start from a domain (Healthcare, Culture, etc), get a list of classes, start picking up a in a query builder, define properties of interest, define joins to other classes and then run the query, to obtain a table, which could be exported as CSV.

data.world is a similar project, although that is designed around the concept of the data set (if not the file), while here I'm thinking more of integrated data and their entities (i.e., class, relations, properties, ie, ontologies/schemas). I don't know any other similar project (in fact the code to realise it could be reused against other data repositories too), but I remember several visual query-by-example tools (eg, this, that and others for SQL), but all of them are rather geeky, while I have in mind a less technical audience.