Please note: This website exists only for historical reasons and is no longer maintained.
The projects on this website are deprecated.

Main Developers

Contributors

The RelFinder source code is published under the GNU General Public License and hosted on Google Code.

RelFinder logoInteractive Relationship Discovery in RDF Data

Are you interested in how things are related with each other? The RelFinder helps to get an overview: It extracts and visualizes relationships between given objects in RDF data and makes these relationships interactively explorable. Highlighting and filtering features support visual analysis both on a global and detailed level. The RelFinder is based on the open source framework Adobe Flex, easy-to-use and works with any RDF dataset that provides standardized SPARQL access.


Experience RelFinder

Video of RelFinder Demo of RelFinder


Examples

Check out the following links for some examples:


Configuration

The RelFinder can easily be configured to work with different RDF datasets. It can even be called from remote to access a specific dataset and/or certain objects.


Integration

The RelFinder can also be more deeply integrated with your project:

See the following examples of how the RelFinder is integrated into other projects:


Notes

The RelFinder is readily configured to access RDF data of the DBpedia project and only requires a Flash Player plugin to be executed (which is usually already installed in web browsers).

Since most DBpedia data has been automatically extracted from Wikipedia and other sources, it cannot be expected to be 100% complete or correct. If you want to help improving the data, read about how to contribute to DBpedia.

All tools on this website are research prototypes that might contain errors. We do not guarantee their correct working and cannot offer comprehensive support.


Related Publications

Read more about the RelFinder and the topic of Interactive Relationship Discovery (IRD) in the following publications:

Interactive Relationship Discovery via the Semantic Web.
In: Proceedings of the 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2010), volume 6088, series LNCS, pages 303-317. Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg, 2010.
Philipp Heim, Steffen Lohmann and Timo Stegemann.
[doi]  [BibTeX] 
The RelFinder User Interface: Interactive Exploration of Relationships between Objects of Interest.
In: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2010), pages 421-422. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2010.
Steffen Lohmann, Philipp Heim, Timo Stegemann and Jürgen Ziegler.
[doi]  [BibTeX] 
RelFinder: Revealing Relationships in RDF Knowledge Bases.
In: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies (SAMT 2009), pages 182-187. Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg, 2009.
Philipp Heim, Sebastian Hellmann, Jens Lehmann, Steffen Lohmann and Timo Stegemann.
[doi]  [BibTeX] 

The RelFinder is an advancement of the "DBpedia Relationship Finder" that is described in:

Discovering Unknown Connections - the DBpedia Relationship Finder.
In: Proceedings of the 1st Conference on Social Semantic Web (CSSW 2007), volume 113, series LNI, pages 99-110. GI, 2007.
Jens Lehmann, Jörg Schüppel and Sören Auer.
[doi]  [BibTeX]