Semantic Web + Web Components

+ Bridging the gap between Semantic Web and Web Components worlds brings mutual benefits for both sides. On one hand, Semantic Web technologies provide support for richer component discovery, interoperability, integration, and adaptation on the Web. On the other, Web Components bring the advantages of UI standardization, reusability, replaceability and encapsulation to current Semantic Web applications…

+ Recently I have been working on the idea of Linked Data-driven (LD-R) Web Components as a species of Web components that employ the RDF data model for representing their content and specification (i.e. metadata about the component). LD-R components are supported by a set of predefined core Web components, each representing a compartment of the RDF data model on the Web UI. Thus, the Semantic Web nature of a Linked Data Application (LDA) can be encapsulated in LD-R components thereby, allowing UX designers and Web developers outside the Semantic Web community to contribute to LDAs. The components also provide current Semantic Web developers with a mechanism to reuse existing Web components in their LDAs. Furthermore, LD-R components exploit the power and flexibility of the RDF data model in describing and sharing resources to provide a mechanism to adapt the Web interfaces based on the meaning of data and user-defined rules…

+ For more information you can read our recent paper submitted to the WWW 2016 conference Adaptive Linked Data-driven Web Components: Building Flexible and Reusable Semantic Web Interfaces (pdf)

+ Implementation: http://ld-r.org