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应用1：Linked Data Applications (摘自linked-data[1].pdf，其中有些图片没能转换下来) With significant volumes of Linked Data being published on the Web, numerous efforts are underway to research and build applications that exploit this Web of Data. At present these efforts can be broadly classified into three categories: Linked Data browsers, Linked Data search engines, and domain-specific Linked Data applications. In the following section we will examine each of these categories. Linked Data Browsers Just as traditional Web browsers allow users to navigate between HTML pages by following hypertext links, Linked Data browsers allow users to navigate between data sources by following links expressed as RDF triples. For example, a user may view DBpedias RDF description of the city of Birmingham (UK), follow a birthplace link to the description of the comedian Tony Hancock (who was born in the city), and from there onward into RDF data from the BBC describing broadcasts in which Hancock starred. The result is that a user may begin navigation in one data source and progressively traverse the Web by following RDF rather than HTML links. The Disco hyperdata browser [Endnote: http://www4.wiwiss.fu- berlin.de/bizer/ng4j/disco/] follows this approach and can be seen as a direct application of the hypertext navigation paradigm to the Web of Data. Data, however, provides human interface opportunities and challenges beyond those of the hypertext Web. People need to be able to explore the Web of links between items, but also to powerfully analyze data in bulk. The Tabulator (Berners-Lee et al, 2006; Berners-Lee et al, 2008), for example, allows the user traverse the Web of Data, and expose pieces of it in a controlled way, in outline mode; to discover and highlight a pattern of interest; and then query for any other similar patterns in the data Web. The results of the query form a table that can then be analyzed with various conventional data presentation methods, such as faceted browsers, maps, t