The Tabulator
The Tabulator project is a generic data browser and editor.
Using outline and table modes, it provides a way to browse RDF data on the web.
RDF is the standard for inter-application data exchange.
You can use it in two ways
As a Firefox Add-on
The tabulator extension is a Firefox extension which allows Firefox to handle data as
well as documents. Install it from the tabulator extension page
As a web application
The tabulator online version is a set of open source Javascript scripts ("AJAX") which can
run in any web page to add data browsing. It currently runs with Firefox,
(or as an Opera Widget)
and requires Firefox preferences to be set -- see the tabulator
help page or the sidebar on the right.
* First: configure Firefox
Before you try an online version:
- Type into the main browser URI bar "about:config" and hit return to get to the config page.
- Type codebase into the filter window
- Double-click the line
signed.applets.codebase_principal_support ... user set ... boolean .. false
to change it to 'true'.
-
Go back to the tabulator, and try again. When the browser asks you
whether to allow the script to access arbitrary web pages, agree.
Check the "remember the answer this question" box.
The Tabulator is open source under the W3C software license.
Try it:
About it:
Publications:
- Berners-Lee, T., Hollenbach, J., Lu, K., Presbrey, J., Pru d'ommeaux, E. and schraefel, m. c. ,
Tabulator Redux: Writing Into the Semantic Web, unpublished, 2007.
[eprints]
- Berners-Lee et. al.,
Tabulator: Exploring and Analyzing linked data on the Semantic Web,
Procedings of the The 3rd International Semantic Web User Interaction Workshop (SWUI06)
workshop, Athens, Georgia, 6 Nov 2006.
- Slides
from talk on tabulator (including screen shots).
For Developers:
Thanks to all those who have provided feedback, code patches etc.
Data links
Only if you have a data browser, such as ffox+Tabulator extension, installed.