Understanding web documents using semantic overlays Authors: Grégoire Burel, Amparo Elizabeth Cano Keywords: semantic overlays, semantic web, web augmentation
Abstract:
The Ozone Browser is a platform independent tool that enables users to visually augment the knowledge presented in a web document in an unobtrusive way. This tool supports the user comprehension of Web documents through the use of Semantic Overlays. This tool uses linked data and lightweight semantics for getting relevant information within a document. The current implementation uses a JavaScript bookmarklet.
The “overlay” nature of this interface attracted my attention. Suspect it would work with “other” sources of page annotation, such as topic maps.
Suspicion only since the project page, http://oak.dcs.shef.ac.uk/sparks/ is a dead link as of 4 October 2010. I have written to the project and will update its status.
Update:
Apologies for the long delay in following up on this entry!
The correct URL, not the one reported in the article: http://nebula.dcs.shef.ac.uk/sparks/ozone.
Now I will have to try to find the time to try the bookmarketlet. Comments if you have already?