Thinkpedia

Submitted by hirschch on February 23, 2009 - 21:32

Thinkpedia is a new way to navigate and explore the contents of Wikipedia. It is what we call a "Visual Wiki". Thinkpedia usesSemanticProxy in order to extract semantics out of Wikipedia articles, which are then shown in an interactive visualization which is created with Thinkmap.

The visualization is displayed along with the Wikipedia article, providing a focus plus context view. The thickness of the edges in the visualized graph corresponds to the relevance of the connected items. A range slider at the bottom of the application can be used to filter the graph according to this relevance.

Thinkpedia is developed by Christian Hirsch, PhD student at the University of Auckland under the supervision of John Hosking and John Grundy. 

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