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Talking about Data: Sharing Richly Structured Information through Blogs and Wikis

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Benson, Edward Oscar; Marcus, Adam; Howahl, Fabian; Karger, David R
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Abstract
Several projects have brought rich data semantics to collaborative wikis, but blogging platforms remain primarily limited to text. As blogs comprise a significant portion of the web’s content, engagement of the blogging community is crucial to the development of the semantic web. We provide a study of blog content to show a latent need for better data publishing and visualization support in blogging software. We then present DataPress, an extension to the WordPress blogging platform that enables users to publish, share, aggregate, and visualize structured information using the same workflow that they already apply to text-based content. In particular, we aim to preserve those attributes that make blogs such a successful publication medium: one-click access to the information, one-click publishing of it, natural authoring interfaces, and easy copy and paste of information (and visualizations) from other sources. We reflect on how our designs make progress toward these goals with a study of how users who installed DataPress made use of various features.
Date issued
2010-11
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/108524
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Journal
The Semantic Web – ISWC 2010
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Citation
Benson, Edward, Adam Marcus, Fabian Howahl, and David Karger. “Talking About Data: Sharing Richly Structured Information through Blogs and Wikis.” The Semantic Web – ISWC 2010 (2010): 48–63. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010
Version: Author's final manuscript
ISBN
978-3-642-17745-3
978-3-642-17746-0
ISSN
0302-9743
1611-3349

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