This Google Gadget (GG) let you to render semantic data. Whaat? For example, FOAF is an ontology to specify precisely details about persons, institutions, and relations among them. Ontologies comprises classes and properties/relations. FOAF defines, among others, the class Person. This class in the most used in the Semantic Web according to Swoogle papers, with 11 million instances. If you have your own FOAF file, you can point this GG to it, choose the renderer, and that's it!

A picture is worth a thousand words

You can use this GG in different Google products (Pages, Desktop, iGoogle), or in your own pages.

Next picture shows the usage of this GG to be used in your own web pages. Just configure the gadget and press the "Get the Code" button. Copy the code and paste it in your web page.

Using Google Gadget for Fortunata-VPOET

Visit Google Gadgets and have a look.

The URL of this GG is http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/115814006225925196713/fortunata.xml

Have a look at VPOET if you are interested in creating a visualizations for some ontology.

GG-VPOET in action

This image shows in clockwise order: own page, Google Desktop, iGoogle, and Google Pages.

GG-VPOET in action