The Information Workbench. Interacting with the Web of Data
Peter N. Haase, Andreas Eberhart, Sebastian Godelet, Tobias Mathäß, Duc Thanh Tran, Günter Ladwig, Andreas Wagner · 2010
Abstract. We present the Information Workbench, an application for interacting with the Web of data. The Information Workbench manages large amounts of structured and unstructured information, which may be imported and integrated from existing sources, but also allows end users to annotate, complete and update information in a collaborative way. New paradigms for accessing information include hybrid search across the structured and unstructured data, keyword search combined with facetted search, as well as semantic query completion and interpretation, which assists the user in expressing complex information needs by an automated translation of keyword queries into hybrid queries. A Living UI based on widgets for the interaction with the data enables a homogeneous, seamless, continuous and personal experience. In our demonstrator system, users can explore, query and enrich information from the English Wikipedia augmented with structured data from the Open Linked Data Initiative including DBpedia and other sources. 1