Parallax and Companion: Set-based Browsing for the Data Web
David F. Huynh, David R. Karger · 2009
The arrival of the Data Web will bring an abundance of explicit semantics either complementary to or embedded within traditional web content. This body of semantics both demands and enables new interaction techniques to be introduced into the web experience. In this position paper, we proposes that the current web browsing paradigm of “one web page at a time” needs to be updated because the typical unit of web information to interact with will no longer be a whole and single web page but can be smaller and numerous bits of data. We introduce the set-based browsing paradigm that lets the user traverse graph-based data that will be found on the Data Web in an efficient manner, moving from a set of things to a related set of things rather than from one single thing to one single other thing. We demonstrate this paradigm as a standalone application on a web-like database and as a browser extension on existing web pages.