From the website:
This website provides an overview of our attempts to a more visual Data Web.
The term Data Web refers to the evolution of a mainly document-centric Web toward a more data-oriented Web. In its narrow sense, the term describes pragmatic approaches of the Semantic Web, such as RDF and Linked Data. In a broader sense, it also includes less formal data structures, such as microformats, microdata, tagging, and folksonomies.
The term Visual Data Web reflects our goal of making the Data Web visually more experienceable, also for average Web users with little to no knowledge about the underlying technologies. This website presents developments, related publications, and current activities to generate new ideas, methods, and tools that help making the Data Web easier accessible, more visible, and thus more attractive.
The recent NSA scandal underlined the smallness of “web scale.” The NSA data was orders of magnitude greater than “web scale.”
Still, experimenting with visualization, even on “web scale” data, may lead to important lessons on visualization.
I first saw this in a tweet by Stian Danenbarger.