Fuzzbot - An embedded semantic data viewer

Fuzzbot is designed to detect RDFa and other semantic data
formats and
display them to the person browsing. RDFa is a way to embed
machine-readable data into web pages, which helps computers
help you
interact with web pages in a smarter way. For example,
Fuzzbot can show
you information about people that it has found on a web page
- helping
you view only the data in which you're interested.

The goal of Fuzzbot is to integrate Microformats and RDFa
into a common
format (JSON/RDF) which authors can then write Actions and
UIs against.
What this means is that Fuzzbot will deal with higher-level
semantic
concepts (People, Places, Events, Audio, Video, etc.),
rather than
formats (hCard, FOAF,  etc.). Fuzzbot is primarily a test
bed for UI
concepts and is not a replacement for Operator - ideally,
some of what
we learn from Fuzzbot could be integrated into Operator.

http://rdfa.di
gitalbazaar.com/fuzzbot/

Screenshots are available here, for those that don't want to
install the
plugin:

htt
p://rdfa.digitalbazaar.com/fuzzbot#screenshots

Some of you might note that the primary UI concept behind
Fuzzbot is
based on Dmitri Glazkov's Margin Marks concept[1] that he
posted to this
mailing list about 3-4 months ago. It is a visual approach
to displaying
semantic data.

The current release (v0.7.5) is a very preliminary version
of the
software. There will be UI bugs and perhaps some operational
bugs (For
example, parsing Digg.com is very slow). Firefox XPIs are
available for
both Linux and Windows, here:

http:
//rdfa.digitalbazaar.com/fuzzbot/download/

All librdfa source code is released under LGPL v3, and the
Fuzzbot
plugin is released under the Mozilla Public License. Source
code is
available via GIT:

git clone http://rdfa
.digitalbazaar.com/fuzzbot.git
git clone http://rdfa
.digitalbazaar.com/librdfa.git

If you have any thoughts or questions on the direction of
this project,
or where you'd like to see it headed, please discuss on the
list and
we'll try to work it into the project plan.

-- manu

PS: We're also looking into creating a native C library to
do
Microformats parsing, but wanted to make sure there wasn't
anybody that
had already done this. Is there anybody on here that has
created a
native C library for parsing Microformats?

[1] http://glazkov.
com/blog/margin-marks/
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