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Revyu from The Open University

Revyu: Revyu is a web site allowing people to write reviews and give ratings of anything they choose. Reviews and ratings are provided via web forms and republished on the web as RDF/XML and via a SPARQL endpoint.


Revyu fact-file

Owner  :  The Open University
Researchers
(listed alphabetically)		  :  Tom Heath, Prof Enrico Motta
Description  :  Heath, Tom, Motta, Enrico (2006) Reviews and Ratings on the Semantic Web. In Poster Track, 5th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2006), Athens, Georgia, USA. (PDF)
Demonstration  :  http://revyu.com/
Builds on  :  Resource Description Framework, MySQL
Addresses challenges  :  Knowledge Acquisition, Knowledge Publishing

What's the Problem?

Tools that allow users to contribute RDF statements to the Semantic Web are widespread, however many require specialist knowledge and are thus not usable by lay-people, limiting the extent to which this group of users can participate in the Semantic Web.

Towards a Solution

Revyu allows users without specialist Semantic Web-related skills to create reviews and ratings of anything they choose, by completing web forms through their browser. These are then published in crawlable RDF/XML and via a SPARQL endpoint, allowing other Semantic Web applications to reuse this data.

Revyu is built on RAP, the RDF API for PHP, from the Freie Universität Berlin

Semantic representation

Also available in DOAP (Description Of A Project)