SView Team Nanjing University

Design principles “Less is more” (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe) Dr. Edith Farnsworth’s House

Design principles “A little semantics goes a long way” Hendler-Birnbaum hypothesis

Query and Presentation Simple (select/merge properties)  complex Presentation Naïve/plain (order properties)  gorgeous/brilliant Think about the Hypertext Web

View View Shared View Query Presentation Public participation Meaningful/useful/popular

Query-Oriented Exploration (QOE) Query recommendation Select/deselect queries Construct queries Presentation preference Configuration Switch/construct presentation style

Entity Most favorite properties /Entity summary e Specific views e' Merge: virtual property e Specific views e' consensus virtual properties

Entity Name/type/description etc. view-1 view-2 Property value …… More property (virtual) view-2 Remove Merge Order view-3 More... Identity and source Remove/create

The properties of entities Favorite (Add/Remove) + added (bookmarked), - removed (recycle bin) Personalized ordering Favorite + recommended Limited number of recommended ones [1, …, 5] Personalized ordering + Consensus ordering

Entity collection All (N) entities in [leastCommon1], view-1 Type: leastClass1 (n1), … Property: value1 (number of entity) value2 (number of entity) Some (number of entity) …… More property (virtual) view-2 Remove view-3 More... Inspect and filter the members Remove/create

Entity collection (Inspect & Filter) List of entities (name, type, image, description, p) bookmark Look for those in [Class]  which has p in [valueC] New constraint Select/deselect

Identity and source Identity ? Source

QO Exploration Query Action Property Virtual property View (query + presentation) Filter Action Select/deselect query Construct query (merge properties, view) Ordering query result (Contribution to a good presentation)

Websoft Research Group Acknowledgement Websoft Research Group http://ws.nju.edu.cn