Linked Data connections aren't always explicit triples. Sometimes the link is spatial: things that simply exist near each other.
LDView now shows "nearby" entities - geolocated subjects that are indirectly linked to the one you're viewing.
Example: https://data.digitopia.nl/uri:http://vici.org/vici/19762
Scroll down to “Nearby” and explore the neighbourhood.
Incoming links are a revealing way to explore a Linked Data dataset — but they vanish silently when the linking subject is a blank node.
LDView now walks up the graph (up to 2 hops) to find the real subject.
Example: https://data.digitopia.nl/uri:http://data.bibliotheken.nl/id/thes/p075547279
Before: 0 incoming links. After: the full picture of where an entity appears in the dataset.
LDView - the linked data viewer / dereferencer for humans - now follows owl:sameAs and skos:exactMatch links to fetch images from linked datasets like Wikidata.
OWL semantics at work: if two URIs identify the same thing, their properties are interchangeable.
Example at https://data.digitopia.nl/uri:http://vici.org/vici/49
Just shipped a cool feature in LDView: URI Proxy!
Browse Linked Data from any external SPARQL endpoint as if it's local. No data copying, no duplication—just a unified view into distributed sources.
Some online examples:
https://data.digitopia.nl/uri:http://data.bibliotheken.nl/id/nbt/p17356755X
https://data.digitopia.nl/uri:https://data.ldmax.nl/ark:/74905/00fb35d26d83d8cce2a9b8acb29464af
https://data.digitopia.nl/uri:https://data.razu.nl/id/object/nl-wbdrazu-k50907905-689-11
Super for cultural heritage portals aggregating collections from multiple institutions.
Source at https://codeberg.org/renevoorburg/ldview
The linked data viewer / dereferencer LDView can now be used without an expensive SPARQL endpoint.
Just convert your RDF data to the hdt format and use that as a datasource. You can even SPARQL them using the integrated Yasgui interface.
Above all, LDView attempts to offer a human friendly interface for providing RDF data.
The linked data viewer / dereferencer LDView now supports the skolem IRIs as used for example by Triply. Will be displayed similar to blank nodes.
René Voorburg
