Quick Start

• Step 1: Create your Login Account
  
  
• Step 2: Create your own Concepts
  
  
• Step 3: Share Structured Data
  
  

• Browse through the Concept Cloud
• Search Structured Data
• Exploit the Machine Readable Data

• A basic demo   (also available on YouTube but low quality)

1. Create your Login Account
   See here if you do not know how.
   
   
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2. Create your own Concepts
   You can easily create your own Concept to model the data you want to share. For example, let's say you want to share information about your favorite band. You may define a concept called "band" with attributes like name, members, country, genre, years_active, etc.
   
   
   
   
   If you want to learn more, click here.
   
   You do not always need to start from scratch. If an appropriate concept already exists, you can directly go to step 3. You may also modify concepts defined by others to create your own version.
   
   
   If you want to learn more, click here.
   
   
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3. Share Structured Data
   You can now share Structured Data instances using the concept. For example your favorite band may be described as follows using your band concept.
   
   
   If you want to learn more, click here.
   
   
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4. Browse through the Concept Cloud
   
   
   StYLiD automatically consolidates multiple versions of the same concept. Click on the "+" next to a consolidated concept to expand it into a sub-cloud of the multiple versions. If you want to learn details, click here.
   
   StYLiD helps you to Align the multiple versions and view heterogeneous data in a uniform table view. Click here to learn details.
   
   
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5. Search Structured Data
   Search data more effectively by entering structured criteria. For example, you may want to search for bands from "US" with "rock" genre.
   
   
   If you want to learn more, click here.
   
   
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6. Exploit the Machine Readable Data
   StYLiD embeds machine readable version of your data using RDFa. However, you do need to worry about it. It is for machines. Useful tools are becoming available to pick up the machine readable data and offer useful operations. You may try
   
   • RDFa Bookmarklets
   • Operator (Firefox Add-on)
   • Live Clipboard
   You can even code your own scripts with Operator and create useful operations for your data. Enjoy playing with structured data!
   
   There are more tools and scripts available. If you are interested read more here.
   
   
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Share data and benefit from the Collective Intelligence of the world.