Idea-map: A spatiotemporal view of research ideas

In this paper, we describe idea-map, a mash-up application building on top of Linked Data Cloud. It reads in user's keywords (about research ideas) and executes a SPARQL query against DBLP endpoint. Spatial and temporal information is extracted and parsed from the query results and is further transformed to SIMILE/EXHIBIT to show a spatiotemporal map for the research ideas. Idea-map shows the feasibility of combing various techniques such as YQL, SIMILE/Exhibit and SPARQL query answering to provide an insightful interface to better understand the interested research ideas.