<title>Creating a semantic-web interface with virtual reality</title>

Abstract

Novel initiatives amongst the Internet community such as Internet2 [1] and Qbone [2] are based on the use of high bandwidth and powerful computers. However the experience amongst the majority of Internet users is light-years from these emerging technologies. We describe the construction of a distributed high performance search engine, utilizing advanced threading techniques on a diskless Linux cluster. The resulting Virtual Reality scene is passed to a standard client machine for viewing. This search engine bridges the gap between the Internet of today, and the Internet of the future.

Utilizing Virtual Worlds for Personalized Search: Developing the PAsSIVE Framework

“…Objects that represent information can be displayed in a way to emphasize certain data by changing size, height or surface appearance [7]. Additionally, the VR-Net project of Cleary et al [9] used a VRML based interface to visualize related search results in a virtual space. Pages are represented as basic objects (box, cone, cylinder, line and spheres) and displayed based on reaction to the query and other topics related to the topic.…”

SVG and X3D: New XML Technologies for 2D and 3D Visualization

“…SVG and X3D play a central technological role in visualizing the Semantic Web (Geroimenko and Chen, 2004;Geroimenko, 2004;Geroimenko and Geroimenko, 2000;Lau et al, 2003;Cleary and O'Donoghue, 2001). On the one hand, metadata and Web ontologies can be embedded into SVG and X3D files, turning them into "smart" machine-understandable graphics.…”