The RDFa Content Editor - From WYSIWYG to WYSIWYM
Proceedings of COMPSAC 2012 - Trustworthy Software Systems for the Digital Society, July 16-20, 2012, Izmir, Turkey., (2012)Best paper award.Abstract
Recently practical approaches for managing and
supporting the life-cycle of semantic content on the Web of
Data made quite some progress. However, the currently least
developed aspect of the semantic content life-cycle is the user-friendly manual and semi-automatic creation of rich semantic
content. In this paper we present the RDFaCE approach
for combining WYSIWYG text authoring with the creation
of rich semantic annotations. Our approach is based on
providing four different views to the content authors: a classical
WYSIWYG view, a WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You
Mean) view making the semantic annotations visible, a fact
view and the respective HTML/RDFa source code view. The
views are synchronized such that changes made in one of the
views automatically update the others. They provide different
means of semantic content authoring for the different personas
involved in the content creation life-cycle. For bootstrapping
the semantic annotation process we integrate five different text
annotation services. We evaluate their accuracy and empirically
show that a combination of them yields superior results.
