iLD-Apps: Usable Mobile Access to Linked Data Clouds at the Shop Floor

This position paper argues for adapting the Apps-approach to industrial interactive Linked Data applications (iLD) and presents a design study for a small application that is applicable whenever an information foraging task at hand may be described as carefully examining the neighborhood of a concept. This little App is primarily being developed for industrial device diagnosis tasks. However, it is easily adaptable to other navigation and information processing tasks that have similar information needs. We argue that a collection of individually extremely limited but highly usable applications will eventually have the potential to provide the means for application orchestration as a complement to industrial Linked Data Clouds and service orchestration. We present the concept of a generalizable mobile user interface that hides the complexity of the underlying Linked Data Network from the user. Author