Visualization module of Vijjana, a Pragmatic Model for Collaborative, Self-organizing, Domain Centric Knowledge Networks

Visualization Module of Vijjana, a Pragmatic Model for Collaborative, Self-organizing, Domain Centric Knowledge Networks Suhasini Kalluru Humans are capable of doing many things, but a computer cannot. This happened to be a word in the past. Now the world is heading towards a Semantic Web. The Semantic Web was originated from the thoughts of Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the WWW, URIs, HTTP, and HTML. Semantic web links the data that is easily recognized by machines. Two strings spelled similarly but used in different contexts can be found easily without a tedious search among many irrelevant results given by a regular search engine now. As a part of the semantic web a small knowledge network, ‘Vijjana’ is being evolved. Vijjana is defined as a Pragmatic Model for Collaborative, Self-organizing, Domain Centric Knowledge Networks. The term knowledge network refers to the fact that the links referred to as the JAN’s in Vijjana are organized in a predefined taxonomy and linked semantically. The visualization module of Vijjana is presented in the current report. The Vijjana knowledge network database source is mainly the Open Directory Project that provides classified data. The classified data is categorized based on their relationships between the data and neatly organized. The ultimate data was visualized using certain tool like Prefuse. XML’s were generated using programming languages and used for the visualization. Different visualizations were extracted to provide a clear view of the integrated data and a more enhanced search for the users.