A user-centred evaluation framework for the Sealife semantic web

I have just found a very interesting paper titled “A user-centred evaluation framework for the Sealife semantic Web browsers”.

Abstract: Semantically-enriched browsing has enhanced the browsing experience by providing contextualised dynamically generated Web content, and quicker access to searched for information. However, adoption of Semantic Web technologies is limited and user perception from the non-IT domain sceptical. Furthermore, little attention has been given to evaluating semantic browsers with real users to demonstrate the enhancements and obtain valuable feedback. The Sealife project investigates semantic browsing and its application to the life science domain. Sealife’s main objective is to develop the notion of context-based information integration by extending three existing Semantic Web browsers (SWBs) to link the existing Web to the eScience infrastructure.

Definitely, Life Sciences is a domain where semantic annotation can be very valuable.

You can get the whole paper at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2755822/pdf/1471-2105-10-S10-S14.pdf

In case you do not have time to read the paper, I recommend you to have at least a look at http://www.gopubmed.org/web/gopubmed/

Tags: browser, paper, semantic web

Author: Germán Toro del Valle, Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo
Posted on Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 at 10:42 am,
Categories: Uncategorized.
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