Patent Application: US-201013264502-A

Abstract:
a metadata browse system supports the capture of metadata from multiple sources and formats , its conversion to a standard format , the linking of concepts from disconnected namespaces , discovery of hidden information , and the display of this data .

Description:
an implementation of the invention is called teragator . teragator is a method and apparatus for processing data where the data is transmitted to processing elements over a communication medium . the processing elements may be software , hardware , or a combination of the two . typically the data originates from feeds which can be sources of video or audio media , or information services , or database services , or any other type of source of information . the data may be live , in the sense that it is created immediately prior to being processed , such as is the case with the video feed from a news event , or it may be long - lived data from an archive . in one aspect of the present invention a digital processing system creates a second set of data from the first set of data that indicates the nature of the content of the first set of data . this second set of data is called metadata . the metadata is used to help human or machine agents to locate wanted parts of the first set of data . in one embodiment of this aspect of the present invention a metadata browser server provides a storage facility for metadata and an interface by which means clients on the communication network can access the stored metadata . fig1 shows a block diagram of the elements of a metadata browser . it can be seen that the metadata browser server communicates with a number of other processing elements . one such element is the processing element responsible for the extraction of metadata from data and its transmission the metadata browser . in one embodiment of this aspect of the present invention the metadata that is passed from the metadata browser server to the client has extra styling information added that suggests to the client how the metadata should be rendered . this styling information is not stored alongside the metadata and so does not add bulk or cause query performance to deteriorate . a client publishes its particular capabilities as regards rendering and presentation as a publically accessible electronic document . a server that wishes to pass metadata to that client for display retrieves this document , reads the capabilities of the client , matches the presentation requirements at the server with the presentation capabilities at the client , and sends the appropriate styling information . this styling information consists of a set of commands , one for each presentation effect that is required , where each command consists of : ( 1 ) a regular expression that the client applies to the textual value of the rdf triples that has the effect of selecting a subset of triples and ( 2 ) a capability that is selected from the list of capabilities that the client has published that is applied to this subset . in one embodiment of this aspect of the present invention this extraction is performed by a processing element called an adaptor which may be implemented in software or hardware or a combination of the two . there can be multiple adaptors , each specialised for the purpose of extracting metadata from a particular source format , forming it into one standard metadata format , and passing it to the metadata browser server . it may be the case that the information content of the source is already metadata that describes some other data in which case the adaptor just converts this metadata into the standard format . in the preferred embodiment of this aspect of the invention the standard format is the resource description framework ( rdf ). fig1 shows how rdf , which is a way of representing resources and their relationships as a graph , can be represented in a file as rdf / xml . in one embodiment of this aspect of the present invention the adaptor uses natural language processing to convert unstructured textual information into the standard metadata format . fig1 gives an example of this process . a sentence in the form of a string of text is parsed to find nouns and proper names . as shown in fig1 these are transmitted to an identity server in order to determine the uris that represent these elements . these uris are marked as potential subjects and objects in the rdf graph that represents the sentence . similarly , the sentence is parsed to extract the verb phrases and noun phrases and these are transmitted to the identity server which returns uris that are marked as potential predicates in the rdf graph that represents the sentence . the sentence is parsed once more to determine the relationships between the subjects , predicates and objects ; the rdf graph that is produced is the end product of the adaptor and is transmitted to the metadata server , in another embodiment of this aspect of the present invention the adaptor uses a prior art automatic speech - to - text system to extract text from the soundtracks of media files . in another embodiment of this aspect of the present invention the adaptor uses a prior art video processing system to extract features including shot change , colour histogram , on - screen text , motion , objects , and any other feature that may automatically be recognised . in another embodiment of this aspect of the present invention the adaptor uses a human operator to manually enter metadata . in another embodiment of this aspect of the present invention the adaptor uses natural language processing to parse unstructured textual information and extract semantic content which is then represented using the standard metadata format . the semantic content that is extracted describes resources and the relationships between them . one example is simply to encode the fact that resources a , b and c have been discovered in a particular context ( such as text annotation of a single media clip ), which may be described in an informal rdf notation as : this is read as “ the resources a , b and c are all to be found in this text annotation , and by implication , in the video clip the text describes ”. this is read as “ the resources a , b and c are together in a scene followed by a scene where the resources b and d are together ”. this introduces the two concepts of encoding groupings of resources , and of sequences of such groupings . an application of this is metadata describing a sporting event where the resources a and b may be players , the resource c may be a “ pass ” and d may be “ goal ”. the encoding in this case means : “ player a passes to player b then player b scores a goal *. this resource - relationship encoding is called a composition in the present embodiment . in another embodiment of this aspect of the present invention the adaptor uses an ontology to assist the discovery of resources . resources can be referred to in many different ways , such that no algorithm can discover , without prior knowledge , the intended meaning . one example is ‘ new york ’ being referred to as ‘ the big apple ’. an ontology is able to store the different names of resources and the data mining process can refer to these during the process of resource discovery . in another embodiment of this aspect of the present invention the adaptor uses a dictionary to disambiguate the text items discovered , and to match them to the correct resource . ‘ the text item ‘ the big apple ’ can refer to ‘ new york ’ or a ‘ fruit ’. other text items found in the same context ( such as text annotation of a single media clip ) are examined to find the possible senses . if ‘ fruit - related ’ is a more common way of understanding the sense of the other text items in the context than ‘ place - related ’ then “ the big apple ” is taken to be an apple ( in the sense of fruit ) resource ; otherwise , it is taken to mean ‘ new york ’. in one embodiment of this aspect of the present invention the source of data for an adaptor is a feed which includes , but is not limited to , web sites , xml feeds such as rss , the output from automated speech or video recognition systems , or data generated by human operators working logging devices . in one embodiment of this aspect of the present invention the adaptor is a generic processing element which is specialised for a particular feed by means of a configuration file . in the preferred embodiment of this aspect of the invention the configuration file is itself an rdf graph that describes the mapping between source and target metadata elements , and which is stored as a rdf / xml file . in the preferred embodiment of this aspect of the present invention the configuration file is generated by a configuration tool as shown in fig1 . this configuration tool allows a user of the metadata browser to create a new adaptor for a feed , without detailed knowledge of any other parts of the system . in one embodiment of this aspect of the present invention an identity server provides the means by which unique names are generated to represent people , organisations , events , media items , and anything else that may be subject to a search , and also the means to resolve ambiguities which may exist when a unique entity ( such as a person ) is known by several different names . fig1 shows the identity server in the context of the whole system . the identity server exposes an interface ( iidentity ) which is used by clients to look up names . the clients of the identity server include the metadata browser server and the adaptors . fig1 to 7 show the process of identity resolution . fig1 shows the basic problem that the identity server aspect of the invention solves . an enquiry service has the responsibility of gathering information from remote feeds , finding items of interest , and using these items to put together media programs such as breaking news or sports highlights . the feeds are diverse sources of information ; they may be web sites , xml feeds , the output from automated speech or video recognition systems , or data generated by human operators working logging devices . in the figure there are three hypothetical feeds :— a “ sports media feed ” generates sports media clips and metadata that describes those clips ; a “ wall street feed ” is a website hosting a database that holds data concerning companies and their sponsorship deals ; the “ news media feed ” generates news media clips and metadata that describes those clips . a user of the enquiry service wishes to put together a media item about a hypothetical golf player called “ robert clubs ”. using the name “ robert clubs ” as the search term produces few results as the golfer in question is known by different names in the context of the different feeds . fig2 introduces the identity service , the purpose of which is to resolve these differences . the sports media feed finds a clip of a player named “ bob clubs ” playing golf . this clip is indexed and rdf metadata added to the effect of “ bob clubs ” ( subject ) “ plays ” ( predicate ) “ golf ” ( object ). now the feed needs to ensure that the names that are entered into the rdf database are usable anywhere . it transmits a message to the identity service consisting of two parts : the first is a uri combining the namespace of the feed ( http :// sportsmedia ) with a uri fragment (“ bob clubs ”) that is the given name in that namespace . the second is additional , disambiguating , information that the service can use . it is the responsibility of the identity service , either to infer the unique entity ( the human being ) that the name represents and return the name already allocated by the service , or to make a new identity , and return it . in this case it makes a new identity ( http :// identity . org # bob clubs ) and returns it to the “ sports media feed ” client . in fig3 the wall street feed uses the identity service to resolve the uri allocated locally ( http :// wallst / acme corp ) to a new uri ( http :// identity . org # acme corp ) and returns this to the “ wall street feed ” client . in fig4 the news media feed uses the identity service to resolve the uri allocated locally ( http :// news / acme ) to the uri ( http :// identity . org # acme corp ) and returns this to the “ news media feed ” client . at this point all the parties agree about the names . “ bob clubs ” is known as http :// identity . org # bob clubs and “ acme corp ” is known as http :// wallst / acme corp . in fig5 the enquiry service uses the universal names to connect concepts that otherwise would remain hidden . fig6 shows the connections between the elements that , together , make up the story . it can be seen that bob clubs is sponsored by a company called acme that is subject to police investigation . fig7 shows the entries in the identity service database at the end of the step shown in fig5 . the data is stored as rdf / xml and consists of two basic pieces of information :— ( 1 ) a unique entity exists and is known as “ http :// identity . org # bob clubs ” and has two aliases ; “ http :// sportsmedia # bob clubs ” in the context of the “ sportsmedia ” feed , and “ http :// wallst # robert clubs ” in the context of the “ wall street ” feed . ( 2 ) a unique entity exists and is known as “ http :// identity . org # acme corp ” and has two aliases ; “ http :// wallst # acme corp ” in the context of the “ wall street ” feed , and “ http :// news # acme ” in the context of the “ news media ” feed . in one embodiment of this aspect of the present invention processing is applied to the graph to extract feature information that describes the patterns of relationships between the vertices of the graph . in the preferred embodiment of this aspect of the present invention the processing that is applied need have no knowledge of the meaning of the data that is stored in the graph . fig1 shows such a feature extraction element connected to the rdf database of the media browser server , and fig8 and 9 show an example of how the graph may be processed to extract information which can be used to help human or machine agents to locate wanted parts of the data . fig8 shows three properties of a graph which may be used to create feature information : ‘ degree ’, ‘ connectivity ’, and ‘ distance ’. the degree of a vertex is the number of other vertices to which it is directly connected . the connectivity is the total number of vertices to which it is directly and indirectly connected . the distance of a vertex is the length of the path between it and anther vertex . in this and in the following figures ‘ distance ’ metric means the maximum distance — the distance between a node and that furthest from it . the assumption is also introduced here that the numerical value associated with a metric is thresholded , with respect to the mean or by some other method , to result in a low &# 39 ; or ‘ high ’ value . fig9 shows how these metrics may be used , irrespective of the precise meaning of the data , to make inferences about that data . applying the three metrics , each with two possible values , to a each vertex within a graph , results in eight possible unique labels that may be assigned to that vertex . the labels may be interpreted according to the kind of data that the vertex represents . therefore , the processing that is applied to the graph needs no knowledge of the data in order to produce results that are applicable to that data . the end product of the feature extraction is another graph that is served by the metadata browser server to clients , and which is used to highlight unusual , or hard - to - find patterns . in another aspect of the present invention a digital processing system presents a graphical representation of metadata . in one embodiment of this aspect of the present invention a client software program system uses the ienquiry service endpoint of a metadata browser server to request that parts , or all , of the graph information that is stored in the metadata browser , be transmitted across the communication medium to the client . fig1 shows two such metadata browser clients , with different means of displaying the information from the graph , although there may be any number . in one embodiment of this aspect of the invention the vertices of the graph are displayed as icons , and the arcs of the graph are displayed as lines connecting the icons , resulting in the presentation of the data as a mesh . in one embodiment of this aspect of the invention the user can use a graphical input device such as a mouse , to move through the presentation of the graph in order to explore the data visually . fig1 shows an example of how the graph is presented to the user , and how it may be used in the context of a professional broadcast workflow in which a user browses for , locates , and edits together media clips into a finished item . the main viewport shows a section of the graph rendered as a tree , where the root vertex of the tree is positioned at the centre and the descendant vertices are distributed radially , where the radius at which each is positioned corresponds to its level of hierarchy with respect to the root . the edge connecting two vertices is represented by a line which is labelled with the appropriate rdf predicate . at the right of this is a selectable list of all the individual vertices in the graph . selecting an item in the list results in that item becoming the root of a subtree and that subtree being displayed . at the bottom is a conventional editing timeline where images representing sub clips may be placed . the left - to - right ordering of the images represents the order in which they are played , and the horizontal extent represents the length of the sub clip . on the right of the timeline is a media viewer . vertices in the graph may represent entities with or without associated media . wherever a media item is available there is an edge connecting that entity with an icon that represents that media . if the icon is selected ( for example by double clicking ) the media clip is loaded into the media viewer . alternatively the icon can be dragged to the viewer to play it , or dragged directly onto the timeline . fig1 shows a subtree of the graph being displayed with icons ( a picture of a reel of film ) that represent physical media . fig1 shows one method of conveying path traversal information to the user . the graph is the same as that shown in fig1 except that frequently - traversed paths are shown in full sharpness whereas those that are rarely used are softened . the less - used the path the softer the rendition , although the user can still see that the data exists , and can select it and from then on view it at full sharpness . fig1 shows one method of conveying feature extraction information to the user . the graph is the same as that shown in fig1 except that a two vertices with interesting properties have been detected ; the vertices have been picked out with circles and the path between them highlighted . in another embodiment of this aspect of the invention the vertices of the graph are displayed as tables , and the arcs of the graph are displayed as hyperlinks which link between tables , as is found in a conventional web browser . this appendix 1 describes the ‘ teragate ’ query — a means of querying a dataset using terms that correspond to the textual values of ontology elements , i . e ., the names either of classes or individuals according to the owl ontology specification [ 3 ]. this is in contrast to free - text queries where the literal value of a search term is used in the query . so , for example , in a free text query the term ‘ places ’ will return records containing the word ‘ place ’ or ‘ places ’ whereas a teragate query will return records corresponding to members of a ‘ places ’ class in the ontology , such as : england , united states , australia , etc . as resources are discovered a graph is built in the triplestore that represents the class hierarchy of an element in the ontology , for example , when text representing the company ‘ ipv ’ is mined it is inserted into the ontology as : during the metadata mining process , as ontology elements ( ipv and cambridge and cricket ) are discovered in a semantic relationship for the first time ( they are connected in some way in the metadata , for example a text string contains all three terms in the same context ), a new resource is created that represents the fact that ipv and cambridge and cricket are in some way linked , and evidence of this relationship is present in an asset . in the visualisation this composite resource is called a composition and has the following properties : each composition links to one or more assets . each composition links to the participants ( the resource nodes in the ontology that represent the individuals ). as more assets are found that have the same linkage ( ipv , cambridge , cricket ) they are added to the { ipv , cambridge , cricket } composite resource . every node in the ontology graph connects both to subcategories in the ontology , as described , and to all the compositions that relate to this ontology node . so , for example , the ‘ sports ’ node in the ontology links to all the sports - related clips , including { ipv , cambridge , cricket }, which in turn link to the physical assets , as will the ‘ informationtechnologycompany ’ node , and the nodes for ipv and cricket themselves . thus , at any node , we can navigate to the next level in a top - down or bottom - up fashion , by following subcategories or clips . assume that a query containing the terms ‘ sport ’ and ‘ organisation ’ has been made , so in the above code the list queryparticipants equals { sport , organisation }. the code then finds all the descendants of these terms : the terminals that are found in this process ( individuals in the ontology that have no sub - classes ) are : budweiser , guinness , ipv , apple , texaco , fishing , golf and cricket . the next step is to find those assets in which one or more of the names found in the above step appear in a related context as metadata . all the resources that represent compositions are selected from the triplestore . the participants of the composition are encoded into the textual value of the string of the rdf subject to make finding participants efficient . for the current example the resource &# 39 ; s rdf subject is : the participants can be obtained by parsing the localname part of the uri ( just by splitting on the ‘-’ character ) to obtain : cambridge , cricket , ipv . // if each of the lists in descendentsofparticipants find a match in now the list of participants ( compositionparticipants ) is queried to find all those compositions that satisfy the requirement that their elements are subclasses of ‘ organisation ’ and ‘ sport ’. the result of this step is a list of all the composition resources that connect ‘ organisation ’ and ‘ sport ’, i . e ., // now find the asset triples for the composition hits and write to result the final step is to return the assets whose metadata the compositions describe . in the current example both compositions , { antarctica , christmas , golf , ipv } and { cambridge , cricket , ipv } are derived from a single asset “ news reel 3 ”. this is because the asset has timecode - delimited chunks of textual metadata as follows :— 12 : 13 : 14 : 15 bicycle is most popular way of getting to work for employees of cambridge firm ipv the resource mining process chunks the text using timecodes ( strings of the form aa : bb : cc : dd ) and treats each as a separate asset . the two assets that satisfied the query are : the teragate query has the ability to provide precise answers to a fuzzy query . so , for example , if we know nothing more than that we want to find assets that somehow provide evidence of ‘ sport ’ being linked to ‘ organisation ’ then a teragate query will find all such assets ( subject to the accuracy of the data mining process ). the fig1 demonstrates two such assets being located —{ antarctica , christmas , golf , ipv } and { cambridge , cricket , ipv }. fig1 shows the textual annotations that were mined and which resulted in the two compositions ({ antarctica , christmas , golf , ipv } and { cambridge , cricket , ipv }) which were the result of the query . as with free - text searches , the more focused the query , the more precise is the result . fig1 shows a query involving the precise name of two individuals in the ontology ( ipv and cambridge ) coupled with a broad search term ( transport ), resulting in the single result { any_bicycle , cambridge , ipv }. fig2 shows the textual annotation that was mined to result in the composition { any_bicycle , cambridge , ipv } which was the result of the query . resource description framework ( rdf ): concepts and abstract syntax , klyne g ., carroll j . ( editors ), w3c recommendation , 10 feb . 2004 . owl 2 web ontology language : quick reference guide jie bao , elisa f . kendall , deborah l . mcguinness , peter f . patel - schneider , eds . w3c recommendation , 27 oct . 2009 , http :// www . w3 . org / tr / 2009 / rec - owl2 - quick - reference - 20091027 / this appendix 2 describes the method used by teragator to discover resources in a dataset . the methods are based on the use of a world - model in the form of an ontology that describes the resources that are required to be found . teragator defines an ontology for each way in which a dataset can be mined in order to discover resources from metadata . for example the same dataset could be mined using a ‘ basketball ’ ontology which would discover players , coaches , teams , etc , and from a ‘ popular music ’ ontology which would find musicians , orchestras , genres , etc . the ontology builds in the idea that a single resource may be referred to in many ways which would be impossible to resolve without the use of a dictionary , or similar pre - existing model ( unlike spelling mistakes for which algorithms exist to determine the intended text ). an example , shown in the above snippet of owl0 ontology code describes ‘ new york ’ as belonging to the class of ‘ cities ’, which is a subclass of ‘ places ’, which is a subclass of the parent ‘ mediaconcept ’ class . ‘ new york ’ has an alias of ‘ the big apple ’ which means that the mining process can correctly discover a ‘ new york ’ resource even if it is referred to as ‘ the big apple ’. use the ‘ hasalias ’ data property and regular expressions to mine resources . the above code illustrates the use of the ‘ hasalias ’ data property . all the aliases for the active ontology are pre - loaded into a list and regexs of them computed . a text item is processed by finding matches with all such regexs and storing the corresponding alias in a list . use a dictionary to disambiguate word sense and find the correct ontology . the alias ‘ the big apple ’ could refer to new york or to an impressively - proportioned fruit so we need to determine the correct sense of the alias . this is done by using the concept of a gloss which is a particular definition of a sense of a word . ‘ the big apple ’ has two glosses —‘ proper name of a place ’ and ‘ noun phrase involving the proper name of a fruit ’. the alias is assigned the sense whose gloss shares the largest number of words in common with the glosses of other words in the text being processed . when the correct gloss is found the correct ontology can then be looked up . the previous step finds the ontology into which the discovered text item is most likely to fit . once we know this text item , or alias , is likely to refer to the ontology which we are using to mine the data ( for example , a ‘ places ’ ontology rather than a ‘ foods ’ ontology ) the final step is just to determine the ontology element ( the ‘ individual ’ in owl ) that the alias refers to , and this is done by a simple lookup operation in a dictionary of alias - to - ontology elements . as resources are discovered they are linked to their parent resources which are created if they do not already exist . so , for example , if no ‘ places ’ have been found prior to ‘ the big apple ’ being discovered then a ‘ places ’ resource is created . other examples of ‘ places ’ such as ‘ cambridge ’ and ‘ london ’ are linked to this resource as they are found . a branch of ontology is not shown in the visualisation until resources that are related to that branch is discovered . so , for example , the places → cities resource nodes are not seen until a terminal such as ‘ new york ’ is found . during the metadata mining process a graph is built in the triplestore that represents the straightforward ontology that underpins teragator , for example , the place ‘ new york ’ is inserted into the ontology as : during the metadata mining process , as ontology elements ( ipv and shakespeare and new york ) are discovered in a semantic relationship for the first time ( they are connected in some way in the metadata , for example a text string contains all three terms in the same context ), a new resource is created that represents the fact that ipv and shakespeare and new york are in some way linked , and are present in an asset . in the visualisation this composite resource is called a composition and has the following properties : each composition links to one or more assets . each composition links to the participants ( the resource nodes in the ontology that represent the individuals ). as more assets are found that have the same composition { ipv , shakespeare , new york } they are added to the every node in the ontology graph connects both to subcategories in the ontology , as described , and to all the compositions that relate to this ontology node . so , for example , the ‘ places ’ node in the ontology links to all the places - related clips , including { ipv , shakespeare , new york }, which in turn link to the physical assets , as will the ‘ informationtechnologycompany ’ node , and the nodes for ipv and new york themselves . thus , at any node , we can navigate to the next level in a top - down or bottom - up fashion , by following subcategories or clips . the assets need to be linked to the compositions that describe them . in the current example the composition , { ipv , shakespeare , new york } is derived from an asset “ news reel 4 ”. the asset has timecode - delimited chunks of textual metadata as follows : — 00 : 01 : 02 : 03 a survey found that a cat is the most popular pet for ipv employees 00 : 05 : 06 : 07 the beatles and bruce springsteen are most listened - to popular musicians at cambridge company ipv 08 : 09 : 10 : 11 ipv to promote shakespeare festival in the big apple 12 : 13 : 14 : 15 laurel and hardy film is highlight of cambridge film festival the resource mining process chunks the text using timecodes ( strings of the form aa : bb : cc : dd ) and treats each as a separate asset . the asset that is described by the composition { ipv , shakespeare , new york } is :— fig2 shows the result of the process described in the preceding sections . working bottom - up from the text that is associated with the asset ‘ news reel 4 ’. 1 . the timecode - delimited text associated with ‘ news reel 4 ’ is parsed to find chunks which represent media clips which we treat as the real assets of interest . 2 . within each chunk the text is mined using a particular ontology to see if any aliases of individual ontology elements are present . the aliases ‘ ipv ’, ‘ shakespeare ’, and ‘ the big apple ’ are discovered . 3 . the senses of the aliases are analysed to determine if they are likely to belong to the ontology we are using for mining . 4 . the analysis shows that ‘ ipv ’, ‘ shakespeare ’, and ‘ the big apple ’ are more likely to refer to the ontology that we are using ( news and current affairs ) than any other ( for example foodstuffs ), so processing continues . if the analysis showed that this was not the case then the current results would be discarded , the next item in the data set would be obtained , and we return to step 1 . 5 . a virtual ‘ composition ’ resource is created that represents the linkage of the concepts of ‘ ipv ’, ‘ shakespeare ’, and ‘ new york ’. 6 . the asset ‘ 08 : 09 : 10 : 11 ipv to promote shakespeare festival in the big apple ’ from ‘ news reel 4 ’ is linked to this composition . 7 . the ontology elements ‘ ipv ’, ‘ shakespeare ’, and ‘ new york ’ are instantiated ; this results in the branches to which they belong becoming visible , i . e ., organisation . . . , people . . . and places . 8 . the composition { ipv , shakespeare , new york } is linked to the resources ‘ ipv ’, ‘ shakespeare ’, and ‘ new york ’. [ 1 ] resource description framework ( rdf ): concepts and abstract syntax , klyne g ., carroll j . ( editors ), w3c recommendation , 10 feb . 2004 . owl 2 web ontology language : quick reference guide jie bao , elisa f . kendall , deborah l . mcguinness , peter f . patel - schneider , eds . w3c recommendation , 27 oct . 2009 , http :// www . w3 . org / tr / 2009 / rec - owl2 - quick - reference - 20091027 / this appendix 3 is a description of the proposed mechanism for information sharing between teragator client and servers with the purpose of improving the display of rdf [ 1 ], [ 2 ] data . it allows the teragator server to exercise limited control over the display of information transmitted to the teragator browse client . the main problems the mechanism addresses are :— without such a mechanism , the client has no idea of the meaning of the data with which it is presented . it cannot make any decision , based on the data alone , of how to embellish the display of that data without extra ‘ meta - metadata ’ being provided . it does , however , know about its own capabilities as regards processing and display . without such a mechanism , the server has no idea of how to tell the client to embellish data , nor of what kinds of embellishment are possible . it does , however , know to a certain extent what the data means , and in a general way , how it should be rendered . the client is regarded as ‘ dumb ’ with respect to the meaning of the data with which it is presented — it does not try and interpret data to make sense of it in order to put on a better show . instead , the client informs the server of the kinds of operations of which it is capable , and the server matches the kind of display effect that is required , with the effects that are offered by the client , and issues commands accordingly . to accomplish this teragator defines a clientcapability namespace ( or rdf schema ) that is used to build resources that store information specific to each particular client implementation ( there is probably also a minimal ‘ vanilla ’ resource for clients that we don &# 39 ; t know about ). the implementer of the client is responsible for providing all the information that is used to build this resource . the client defines a small set of highly encoded functions ( highly encoded in the sense that one function may imply a complex sequence of actions in the client engine ) and registers these with the server . this is done just once when a new client is created . then , for each service call , the server invokes the function that best matches the required result . considerable flexibility can still be had , however , by using regular expressions to decide where and how the functions are applied , as described later . the first step is for a new client to provide a resource that tells the server what it ( the client ) can do . as is the case with all resources within teragator it takes the form of rdf . client capabilities are defined by an ontology represented as an owl xml file . this file is published by the client as a web resource that can be read by the server , enabling it to understand how to communicate with the client . hierarchy . the rdfsubject ( the resource node ) in the triple that is the value of the rdf object in the same triple as a scalar quantity that defines the projected position of the node . a logical axis is created for every predicate selected in this way . an actual axis on the surface is only created if there are visible nodes that are described by this predicate . the object is a string that represents a date and time . the client is responsible for parsing the string to determine the format ( no hints are rendered on screen as a node in a hierarchy . the rdfsubject ( the resource node ) in the triple that is selected using the wherelambda string operating space using the value of the rdf object in the same triple as a scalar quantity that defines the projected position of the node . a logical axis is created for every predicate selected in this way . an actual axis on the surface is only created if there are visible nodes that are described by this predicate . the object is a string that represents an integer . rendered on screen as a node in a hierarchy . the value of the rdf object in the triple that is selected using the wherelambda string operating on the predicate , can be used as additional descriptive text for the node . rendered on screen as a node in a hierarchy . the value of the rdf object in the triple that is selected using the wherelambda string operating on querystring to the teragator server . the returned image can be used to rendered on screen as a node in a hierarchy . the value of the rdf object in the triple that is selected using the wherelambda string operating on the predicate , can be used as a textual label for the node . which are rendered on screen as nodes in a hierarchy . the rdf predicate in the triple that is selected using the wherelambda string operating on visualisation . the client provides means ( eg list selection ) for the user to select or de - select predicates which , in turn , cause sub - trees ( or rendered on screen as a node in a hierarchy . the value of the rdf object in the triple that is selected using the wherelambda string operating on the predicate , is a composite which is a list of resources that are linked rendered on screen as a node in a hierarchy . the value of the rdf object in the triple that is selected using the wherelambda string operating on the predicate , represents video , audio , graphics or some other object that rendered on screen as a node in a hierarchy . the value of the rdf object in the triple that is selected using the wherelambda string operating on this means that whenever the client sees the string “ canuseobjectasnodeicon ” associated with an rdf object it would make sense to use that text to find an icon with which to represent the node . the detail of how this is done is entirely up to the client . the means by which the server finds and uses the client capability ontology is outside the scope of this document . the client is free to register as many capabilities as it wants . the example ontology shown above demonstrates a minimal set , as follows : — these make the rendition of a resource on screen look tidy , attractive and comprehensible . means “ this text is descrobes a special type of resource made up of other resources ”; means “ this text is a detailed description of the node , and possibly quite long , and typically should be rendered in a separate pane when the resource node is clicked ”; means “ this predicate describes a particular view of the information provided in the graph ”; these apply to resources that describe playable assets , that is , some other application or plug - in can be invoked on the resource ( typically media of some sort ) to view , or play it . means “ this text is the url of something that can be played ”; resources may contain numerical data such as dates , heights , time spans , etc . these capabilities allow the client to project these quantities onto a geometrical surface in order to visualise the data . the next section describes how these capability strings are associated with an rdf component . teragator defines a callcontext namespace ( or rdf schema ) that is used to build small , dynamic callcontext graphs that are returned with the browse triples in a service request . this graph describes how the server wants particular aspects of the data to be displayed . the precise mechanism for layout and rendering , however , is the responsibility of the client . the server needs to tell the client which pieces of rdf to operate on , and with which capability . it does this by building a graph using the following schema :— this just means ( apart from the obvious housekeeping stuff ) “ look for resources called displayset1 and displayset2 ”. the “ displayset ” resource is a way of associating a capability with a match : the match selects a set of rdf components and the capability is applied to this set . a displayset resource is a graph with the following schema :— this means “ use the regular expression to select all . . . # label predicates and apply the canuseobjectasnodelabel capability to them which applies a human - friendly label to the node . similarly , displayset2 could be used to identify icons , as follows :— the intention is that this mechanism can be extended to cope with any and all requirements for adding “ meta - metadata ” ( data that describes the rdf graph that , in turn , describes the resources we are visualising ). a final point to note is that this scheme has the useful property that the callcontext graph at no point connects to the actual data graph — there are no common resources — so one callcontext graph may be recycled many times for different calls . this is a simple rdf graph which is used in the following examples to help explain how the system works . a simple - minded ( and not very pretty ) way of rendering this graph is shown below in fig2 ( the predicates are drawn in lighter text ). from this it is clear that some method of styling the rdf for display is needed . this example shows the result of using the display sets described above to promote text and suppress unwanted system data ( the rdf : type statement ):— the resulting , much more comprehensible , rendering of the example rdf now looks like fig2 . because the rdf generated by the teragator server is strongly - typed , is rdf - schema aware ( and will eventually support owl which is based on rdf schemas ) there is always an rdf : type predicate associated with an rdf node . moreover , the literal string which is the value of the rdf : type property typically will be a human - friendly name chosen by an operator during acquisition of the original rdf . it may make sense to use this to aid display comprehension . the client can apply the “ canuseaslistwrapper ” methods to the matched subject nodes ( . . . # fredbloggs , . . . # bertsmith , and . . . # cambridgedoofers ). this has the effect of inserting a labelled ‘ list ’ node before all the child nodes of a given rdf class . note that the “ canuseaslistwrapper ” capability can use any predicate value ( not just rdf : type ) depending on the value of the “ cx : useswherelambda ” property value . using rdf : type will usually make the most sense though . assuming that the “ canuseaslistwrapper ” capability is understood to pluralise the class name to form the identifier , and to render whatever text is used as the child node identifier into the list icon , the rendering of the example rdf now looks like fig2 . the mechanism can be used to control the display of images . the graphs below cause the content of the . jpg and . wmv to be used to embellish the display ( assuming that the client knows a way of extracting thumbnails from these media file types ): similarly , we can embellish or highlight other parts of the graph . the graphs below cause any predicate with a value of “& lt ; anything & gt ; fred & lt ; anything & gt ; bloggs & lt ; anything & gt ; to be highlighted 3 levels up the graph , starting at that value . the following is the response from a teragator server to a client request that illustrates how call context is used in practice . to make the response compact the triples are encoded as three integers and a lookup table added to the response . 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( editors ), w3c recommendation , 10 feb . 2004 . ipv &# 39 ; s curator is an asset management system that uses a mysql database as a physical storage medium . the assets that are held are media - related and one example of this is a system for search , retrieval and annotation of basketball highlights . fig2 shows a teragator visualisation of the basketball database . the assets can be browsed from the point of view of ‘ basketball person ’, ‘ basketball highlight ’, ‘ basketball team ’, or ‘ composites ( a hierarchy of connections between resources ). itunes uses an xml file to store its data about media items which includes name , genre , artist , rating , and so on . teragator is able to visualise this information as shown in fig2 . as well as using an ontology to categorise the artist additional tools , such as a dbpedia web service tool , can be used to obtain and aggregate additional information as shown . fig2 and 30 illustrate other teragator capabilities that may enhance a music application . for example , the user may want to find the song that has a pop singer collaborating with a reggae band , but may not be able to remember any more detailed information . selecting the terms ‘ reggaemusician ’ and topmusician &# 39 ; and activating the teragate query results in ‘ i got you babe ’ with chrissie hynde and ub0 being returned . the result can be confirmed by browsing to the appropriate place , as shown in the second figure . also , as the first figure illustrates , the results of searches can be added to the media scratchpad , subsequently to be exported as a playlist . although not a separate application in its own right , the ability to browse and aggregate data from web services such as dbpedia is added by default to all teragator applications , as shown in fig3 . wherever an individual in the ontology ( a resource that has an identifiable and well - known physical counterpart ) is encountered it is possible to query a web service for any data that it has on that individual . many media content owners have archives that are not readily accessible or require significant cost of processing to retrieve and use . finding a viable commercial model i . e . an adequate return on the investment , to digitise and bring on - line all the archive material is unlikely . indeed , these potentially valuable media assets are often simply left languishing in vaults or in low cost storage environments . generally where any investment is made , resources are prioritised along the lines of a policy of balanced digitization choices such as ; 4 . for editorial reasons based on its content and event driven demand or anticipated demand due to an upcoming related event . teragator can bring considerable benefit by providing all users simple and cost effective access to the underlying metadata pertaining to the assets , thereby allowing informed choices . database technology has existed in some form for many years while assets were still being retained on tape or even film . often there is more descriptive data available and frequently stored in legacy databases or digital sources . consider the scenario where jane is looking for background editorial to a piece she is researching on deadly sea creatures . it maybe this is being driven by some tragic event and she really needs to access the archive quickly and effectively or for an up and coming documentary . using teragator , this allows her to intelligently choose and research material as well as prioritising any necessary retrieval from archive or digitisation . exploring the data available with a higher level view based on categorisation or an ontology based view is likely to yield results where search alone would not work or be tedious and time consuming at best . providing the data and assets exists then in this example jane would likely find footage for killer whales , sharks , lion fish etc and related stories of fatalities she may have not considered . consider a media content aggregator who has a supplier community who can upload media content and add commentary to the content at will . using natural language processing the content can be mined for meaningful relational data and be presented to users in a more informative way using teragator . additionally , when browsing the available media assets the content owners can bid on semantic meaning and ontology &# 39 ; s that offer better preferences and options to users as well as more intelligent filter choices . consider the scenario where a provider is offering shots of wildlife and through a selected ontology the end user is immediately offered books on sponsored subjects such as twitching ( bird watching ), or binoculars and lens cleaning products . unlike traditional methods of using statistics to offer like options , based on previous history and trends alone , teragator can use semantics and related ontology to uplift the quality of choices offered . for example , using bid - based ppc ( pay per click ) for bidding on an ontology that ‘ groups ’ birds of prey together and links through to optics ; when tom starts to browse for wildlife shots relating to eagles he is offered choices of birds or prey material , spotter lenses , binoculars and related products that better suit his interest , regardless of any previous history of users browsing for these items although this can obviously be used to help weight the results . with the advent of multiple sources for social networking and the plethora of related social media or “ small talk ”; it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep up with the stories and events of friends and interest groups . teragator can allow users to keep up to date with posts to multiple sources or pull together related posts . teragator does this automatically by monitoring these sources and using natural language processing to explore semantically , what is going on . for example , jane has posted to her facebook a few recent photographs of her trip to rome and her friend tom is then alerted by teragator that he might like to take a look or contact her for his up and coming trip to italy . teragator recognises that new data is available and offers this data under the category of countries visited and aligns the relevance from the match with his own data on up and coming trips . one can imagine how difficult and time consuming it would have been to search all his friends &# 39 ; sites and data to look for this connection . the fact that teragator can identify the city against the country through its hierarchical ontology maps allows these matches and relevance to be identified easily . using pure search alone , tom would be faced with guessing all the likely cities in italy to see if any of his friends had made relevant visits , assuming he could remember them ! appendix 5 discusses social networking in more detail . there are many different search engines and plug - ins for email packages that look to offer easier find and retrieval of email . using more advanced plug - ins it is possible to gather statistical data and look for specific structural links that make it easier to navigate historical data as well as explore contacts and their detail . these tools also use simple methods of offering filter options to focus in on specific topics or options that help prioritise the results of searches , such as items with or without attachments . teragator brings a new dimension to this capability by adding semantic data mining to look for relationships in meaning and greatly improve the options for filtering of email based on more informed relevance . additionally , users are now able to explore the email from a structural perspective , being presented with the options available and the context of email traffic . the teragator approach is also a great memory jogger as it is often the case that when searching for something specific , the quality and accuracy of the search is wholly reliant upon the users &# 39 ; memory and perspective of the subject matter . teragator draws on the semantic meaning of the email subject line , embodiment and other related data fields , as well as having the capability to explore the attachments and link context . additionally teragator helps draw out keywords and context from the data and therefore offer the user selection results with greater precision and clarity . for example , tom is looking for some email that was sent to him previously and related to an application for capturing graphics . tom is struggling to remember unique key words to narrow his search or from whom it was sent and when . teragator allows tom to browse through the choices of related topics and identifies that the options “ screen ” and “ print ” are related and available from the mined data . selection and query based on these topics quickly offers email and tom finds that the application and email traffic does not refer to graphical capture but instead print screen . standard ‘ web crawler ’ techniques can be used to examine and collect web site resources , which can then be converted to rdf and browsed using teragator . it is often the case that the terms that are entered into a search engine , when used in isolation , do not adequately represent what the user is trying to find , and in some cases quite the opposite . for instance , entering the following into a search engine will return many hits relating to car insurance . the meaning is only extracted by parsing the search terms to extract any possible semantic content , i . e ., “ insurance for everything except cars ”. the teragator data mining process attempts to infer semantic relations between the resources it finds : this is captured in the concept of a special type of resource called a ‘ composition ” which captures a relation between two or more resources . so , taking the current example further , a teragator data mining operation may have identified the occurrence of ‘ insurance ’ in the context of house insurance , pet insurance , car insurance , holiday insurance , motorbike insurance etc , and created the composite resources { insurance , house }, { insurance , pet },{ insurance , holiday }, { insurance , car }, { insurance , motorbike }. a teragate query of the form { insurance , not car } would return all the compositions except { insurance , car }. the fact that these resources are elements in an ontology could further be exploited since the query { insurance , not vehicle } would also exclude { insurance , motorbike } since both cars and motorbikes are subclasses of ‘ vehicle ’. this information may have a monetary value since it would allow a search engine more precisely to match searches with potential hits , and to offer the companies that are the potential ‘ hits ’ the opportunity to buy a preferential position in the returned hits for a given search . this amounts in effect to the search engine not just allowing potential advertisers to bid for advertising words ( e . g . the google adwords programme ), but instead to bid for meaning ; this is potentially much more targeted and hence valuable . rapid editing of sports highlights and other time - critical media applications where the data becomes stale very quickly . commentators research tool for dynamically exploring background , links , common occurrences and historical data which may help inform or promote the programming . exploring a library and media by interacting with the metadata and expanding the potential use of the media for creating new editorial views or programming exploring the media library for relationships where media can be used for ad placement or greater marketing campaigns . 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( editors ), w3c recommendation , 10 feb . 2004 . owl 2 web ontology language : quick reference guide jie bao , elisa f . kendall , deborah l . mcguinness , peter f . patel - schneider , eds . w3c recommendation , 27 oct . 2009 , http :// www . w3 . org / tr / 2009 / rec - owl2 - quick - reference - 20091027 / dlna for hd video streaming in home networking , http :// www . dlna . org / about us / about / dlna whitepaper . pdf this appendix 5 describes the application of teragator to social networking . aimed typically at a person in their teens , this allows them to construct a linked set of resources which reflect their own interests , and which is presented in their own way . these resources may include : music photos websites web text - based services and feeds miscellaneous electronic documents — homework , clips from websites . email friends resources local media channels ( for example dlna [ 4 ]) web media channels social networking sites tend to impose a standard presentation on the user ; typically something like a photo album , a message board , links to external web resources , and so on . since teragator is built on top of schema - free semantic web technology ( in contrast to the relational databases currently used in social networking sites ) the content can be highly specialised for a particular individual , giving that person an enhanced involvement with , and sense of ownership of , that content . the overriding requirement of the ui is to help the user orient them self at all stages of the exploration process . this is because the concept of navigation through an abstract space of linked data is extremely complex and hard to grasp for the average user , and the amount of data , and the degree of linkage potentially is enormous . the main ui metaphor that is enforced by teragator is :— up ( constellation view )= navigation , orientation and abstraction ; forward ( terrain view )= work area , local movement and exploration ; down ( detail view )= detail and everything that has been found . a large part of visible part of the ui , shown at fig3 , consists of the main pane which is the area devoted to unstructured , exploratory actions . the main pane displays the constellation and terrain views on which all the graphical elements are rendered . the results of text searches are displayed in the detail view beneath the main pane . the constellation and terrain views are “ skinned ”— the user constructs the background graphics to suit their taste using photo , graphics , scanned - in material , and so on . in this example the skin suggests sky / earth / ground and reinforces the up / forward / down ; navigate / explore / detail metaphor . another aspect is that the pane is sectioned into zones which reflect particular interests or attitudes of the user . the size , location and graphics associated with these are completely under the control of the user . in the figure the ones shown are : ellie &# 39 ; s cool place — for resources associated with friends and relaxation , etc ; a teens life — for resources associated with school , homework , hobbies , etc ; do not feed — for resources that currently are out of favour . the controls that are used to manipulate the resources are shown to the left of the main pane . these , again , can be “ skinned ”; in this example they are shown as straightforward ui elements — drop - down and combo boxes , buttons , tick boxes , etc . the constellation view in the upper part of the main pane contains the active “ ellie &# 39 ; s world ” resource with links to sub - resources — clothes , photos , music , school stuff , home stuff , stuff ( resources that defy categorisation ), mates , telly . this view also contains links to other similar “ worlds ” belonging to other users that the user is authorised to explore ; in this case “ christie &# 39 ; s world ”. selecting the “ christie &# 39 ; s world ” resource causes the rdf dataset that represents this to be made active and allows ellie to explore all the resources ( that she is authorised to see ) in “ christie &# 39 ; s world ”. from the point of view of the rdf0 on which the visualisation is based , the ability to explore different datasets , representing different ‘ worlds ’, is accomplished by a straightforward aggregation of the triplestores that hold the data for these worlds . we &# 39 ; ll assume that ellie just wants to browse some of her stuff , to reorganise things a bit , and find out what her friends are doing . she clicks on the ‘ mates ’ icon in the constellation view to expand the ‘ mates ’ node , as shown in fig3 . ellie &# 39 ; s ‘ mates ’ are expanded , as shown in fig3 , and are projected into zones within the terrain view that correspond to how in or out of favour those mates are . from the point of view of the underlying data , this is achieved by attaching an rdf statement to the collection of statements that define the resource for a particular ‘ mate ’, that describes their current standing . in this example all ellie &# 39 ; s mates are in favour and are projected into the ‘ ellie &# 39 ; s cool place zone , bar one , who is projected into the ‘ do not feed ’ zone . because of the schema - free nature of the rdf dataset , ellie is free to attach as many attributes s she likes to the resources and control how they are projected , or otherwise displayed . for example , she may want to class some mates as ‘ best mates ’, or have a ‘ guys i fancy ’ category ( although the author sincerely hopes that this isn &# 39 ; t the case at present ). in a similar vein to the previous example , exploring ‘ music ’ results in resources with different attributes being projected into different zones : various pop groups go into ‘ ellie &# 39 ; s cool place ’, a flute lessons timetable into ‘ a teen &# 39 ; s life ’ and ‘ dads blues band ’ into ‘ do not feed ’, as shown in fig3 . the ‘ stuff ’ resource is explored and the various bits and pieces projected into the appropriate zones . stuff ’ is also a good place to put items that are awaiting categorisation . ellie has just linked in with a new friend ‘ jade ’ whose resource as been placed in the ‘ stuff ’ parent resource , as shown in fig3 . the rdf statement that determines the zone into which the resource is projected is missing since ‘ jade ’ has not yet been categorised . this is not an error since there is no schema that dictates that there has to be such an attribute . a default behaviour is invoked in this case which projects the ‘ jade ’ resource onto a ‘ neutral ’ zone . ellie wants to add jade to her mates so she drags the icon onto the ‘ mates ’ icon , shown in fig3 . the action of adding jade to ‘ mates ’ necessitates a modification of the rdf dataset so that an extra rdf statement is added to the ‘ jade ’ resource to the effect that she is a ‘ mate ’, shown in fig3 . the server requests for confirmation before this processing continues . once ellie confirms the addition the rdf dataset is modified and jade is classed as a ‘ mate , shown in fig3 . 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( editors ), w3c recommendation , 10 feb . 2004 . owl 2 web ontology language : quick reference guide jie bao , elisa f . kendall , deborah l . mcguinness , peter f . patel - schneider , eds . w3c recommendation , 27 oct . 2009 , http :// www . w3 . org / tr / 2009 / rec - owl2 - quick - reference - 20091027 / dlna for hd video streaming in home networking , http :// www . dlna . org / about us / about / dlna whitepaper . pdf this appendix 6 describes the design of the teragator triplestore for a relational database . the design defines an access layer and schema that uses any relational database for physical storage ; mysql is the database used in the following description . the design of triplestores is a research topic . many approaches are being investigated ; a common one is property tables [ 4 ] as used in the hp jena rdf server . the property table approach groups together sets of triples having the same predicate into separate tables . this is one example of the use of a quite complex schema to obtain good performance . the teragator triplestore design , in contrast , goes for simplicity ; defining a single triplestore with extra tables that exploit some aspects of the common structure of triples , in order to gain performance . the main features of the teragator triplestore are as follows : 1 . the triplestore comprises three tables — statement , prefix and literal ( the schema is therefore called split ). 2 . triples make heavy use of uris ( such as http :// ipv . com / teragator / development / schemas / service # fred ). the prefix table stores the left part of the uri ( everything to the left of the fragment starting with ‘#’) which results in much less data stored since one prefix typically is common to very many triples . a particular prefix is encoded using a hash value . 3 . the number of prefixes in a typical data set typically is small enough that the table can be loaded into memory at run time gaining a further speed advantage , since prefixes can be expanded using a look up of an in - memory table rather than a database query . 4 . the rdf object component of a triple is either a uri ( in which case it is efficiently encoded using the prefix table ) or a string literal . the string literal potentially can be very long ; so above a certain size string literals are stored in the literal table and encoded using a hash value . 5 . the statement table stores the actual triples in three columns . prefixes are stored as hashes into the prefix table and long literals are stored as hashes into the literal table . otherwise , the triple information stored just comprises fragments of uris and short literals . a fourth column stores a short signature which indicates how each of the subject , predicate and object parts of the triple are encoded . a fifth column stores the provenance of the triple ( a uri which is outside the rdf standard but which is commonly included as a fourth part of a ‘ triple ’) and a sixth column stores the id which is the primary key of the record . the ‘ signature ’ is a value that is stored alongside the triple that defines how the triple is represented , as follows : object = ‘ 12 : 13 : 14 : 15 bicycle is most popular way of getting to work for the prefix table stores the left parts of the prefixes used in the triple : the statement table stores the actual triple , using hash encodings into the prefix and literal tables , of the prefixes and of the literal : [ 1 ] resource description framework ( rdf ): concepts and abstract syntax , klyne g ., carroll j . ( editors ), w3c recommendation , 10 feb . 2004 . owl 2 web ontology language : quick reference guide jie bao , elisa f . kendall , deborah l . mcguinness , peter f . patel - schneider , eds . w3c recommendation , 27 oct . 2009 , http :/ www . w3 . org / tr / 2009 / rec - owl2 - quick - reference - 20091027 / workshop on semantic web and databases , berlin , germany , 2003 . kevin wilkinson , craig sayers , harumi kuno , dave reynolds the overriding requirement of the ui is to help the user orient them self at all stages of the exploration process . this is because the concept of navigation through an abstract space of linked data is extremely complex and hard to grasp for the average user , and the amount of data , and the degree of linkage potentially is enormous . the main ui metaphor that is enforced by teragator is :— click the icon representing a resource to explore linked resources . drag down on the icon representing a resource to obtain tools that perform actions on the resource . resources are either categories in an ontology or — representations of a physical or electronic resource or — services that provide additional information about resources or — software resources that operate on a resource , for example , a media player that plays a video resource . the initial , default view for a teragator visualisation is the ontology view as shown in the two fig4 and 41 . this shows the top - level categories into which resources are put , and allows the user to start the exploration process . at the point where the user has found an ontology individual ( a representation of a physical or electronic resource ), a new type of resource is seen . in the example shown in fig4 the individual is ‘ cambridge ’ and the new resources are dbpedia &# 39 ;, ‘ associations ’, ‘ assets ’, ‘ web page detail ’ ( not shown in the example ) and ‘ resource detail ( not shown in the example ). these resources represent the point at which the abstract model ( the ontology ) meets the real world ( resources that are mined from data that describes events in the real world ). many real - world resources such as people , places , organisations , etc , have a web presence . teragator provides a quick way to explore the default web site for that individual by clicking the ‘ web page detail ’ icon , per fig4 . teragator is able to aggregate information from various sources and construct a private html resource which is rendered by the client when the user clicks the ‘ resource detail ’ icon , see fig4 . this is useful where a large amount of data has been mined for a particular resource but there is no obvious place to display this information in the visualisation . web services can also provide extra information about a resource . one such is dbpedia ( a subset of wikipedia done as a web - service ), see fig3 . the associations resource allows the user to continue to explore the individuals that are linked to a resource , rather than its assets , as shown in fig4 . the assets view allows the user to explore the physical assets ( primarily media files ) associated with an individual . the first layer of data that ‘ assets ’ links to consists of ‘ compositions ’ which are sets of related resources . a composition is linked to one or more resources that represent the physical item of interest . in the example in fig4 this is an item called ‘ news reel 4 ’. further detail can be obtained from the node by clicking it ; in this case the text annotation that was mined in order to find the composite resource is displayed . dragging down on the asset icon brings up a pane with a set of point - tools that can be applied to this asset . the ‘ preview ’ button plays the media ; see fig4 . the radial tool displays resources as if mapped onto a sphere , see fig4 . the radial tool displays resources as a horizontal tree , see fig4 . the selector displays resources at a particular level and allows the user to drill down through the levels , see fig4 . the slide bar displays resources in a linear fashion and allows the user to shift left and right , see fig5 . the facet filter allows the user to switch subsets of the graph on and off , see fig5 and 52 . the scratchpad allows the user to copy references to items they come across and save them for future use , fig5 . the branches of display can be opened out and closed up by use of the mouse — fig5 and 55 . [ 1 ] resource description framework ( rdf ): concepts and abstract syntax , klyne g ., carroll j . ( editors ), w3c recommendation , 10 feb . 2004 . owl 2 web ontology language : quick reference guide jie bao , elisa f . kendall , deborah l . mcguinness , peter f . patel - schneider , eds . w3c recommendation , 27 oct . 2009 , http :// www . w3 . org / tr / 2009 / rec - owl2 - quick - reference - 20091027 / dlna for hd video streaming in home networking , http :// www . dlna . org / about us / about / dlna whitepaper . pdf