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Table 1 Linked Data query systems description matrix

From: The LRA Workbench: an IDE for efficient REST API composition through linked metadata

 

User interface

Interpretation

Structure

Usability

Rendering

Available      

Active       

Text 

Form 

Visual 

NLI 

Navigation 

 Composition  

Approx. 

Browser 

Step 

Path 

Casual \(^+\) 

Expert \(^*\) 

List 

Table 

Diagram 

Virtuoso (2006)

\(\times\)

    

\(\times\)

       

\(\times\)

 

\(\times\)

\(\times\)

Querix (2006)

   

\(\times\)

  

\(\times\)

   

1

 

\(\times\)

    

iSPARQL (2007)

  

\(\times\)

  

\(\times\)

       

\(\times\)

 

\(\times\)

 

NLP-Reduce (2007)

   

\(\times\)

  

\(\times\)

   

1

3

 

\(\times\)

 

\(\times\)

 

gFacet (2008)

 

\(\times\)

\(\times\)

  

\(\times\)

  

\(\times\)

    

\(\times\)

 

\(\times\)

 

K-Search (2008)

 

\(\times\)

  

\(\times\)

  

\(\times\)

\(\times\)

 

2

2

 

\(\times\)

\(\times\)

  

MashQL (2008)

 

\(\times\)

\(\times\)

  

\(\times\)

 

\(\times\)

\(\times\)

    

\(\times\)

 

\(\times\)

 

Nitelight (2008)

  

\(\times\)

  

\(\times\)

 

\(\times\)

     

\(\times\)

   

Ginseng (2010)

   

\(\times\)

  

\(\times\)

 

\(\times\)

 

1

3

\(\times\)

    

Semantic Crystal (2010)

  

\(\times\)

  

\(\times\)

 

\(\times\)

\(\times\)

 

3

1

 

\(\times\)

   

SPARQL2NL (2013)

   

\(\times\)

  

\(\times\)

     

\(\times\)

  

\(\times\)

 

SemFacet (2014)

 

\(\times\)

  

\(\times\)

   

\(\times\)

   

\(\times\)

\(\times\)

 

\(\times\)

\(\times\)

SPARQLBuilder (2014)

 

\(\times\)

\(\times\)

  

\(\times\)

   

\(\times\)

   

\(\times\)

 

\(\times\)

 

YASGUI (2014)

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AffectiveGraphs (2015)

  

\(\times\)

  

\(\times\)

  

\(\times\)

 

3

1

 

\(\times\)

   

QueryVOWL (2015)

  

\(\times\)

  

\(\times\)

  

\(\times\)

    

\(\times\)

 

\(\times\)

 

PepeSearch (2016)

 

\(\times\)

  

\(\times\)

  

\(\times\)

\(\times\)

 

2

  

\(\times\)

 

\(\times\)

\(\times\)

  1. \(^+\)Numbers reflect the general rank, being NLIs the preferred approaches, followed by form-based and visual approaches
  2. \(^*\) Numbers reflect the general rank, being graph-based the preferred approaches, followed by form-based and NLIs