Masterarbeit
Developing a Microfrontend-based Approach to Visualize and Browse RDF Data
Completion
2025/07
Research Area
Intelligent Information Management
Students
Prabudh Mishra
Advisers
Description
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a standardized data model designed to describe complex semantic relationships between entities. Its semantic richness, schema-less structure, and extensibility offer advantages across a variety of application domains. However, these characteristics also present challenges, particularly in the visualization of RDF data. Most approaches for visualizing RDF data rely on graph-based representations, often displaying partial views of the data. While such methods are well-suited for displaying and editing ontologies and knowledge graphs, they are suitable to a limited extent for embedding seamlessly into existing user interfaces.
A promising alternative is the adoption of a Microfrontend-based architecture. This architecture emphasizes modular and interactive user interface components, which can be implemented using technologies such as Web Components. Such components allow for greater flexibility and can be integrated into existing user interfaces without requiring redesigns.
The objective of this master's thesis is to design and implement a Microfrontend-based concept for visualizing and browsing RDF data. The proposed solution should enable the integration of pre-defined entity instances into existing websites as reusable components. For this purpose, the first step is to conduct a requirements analysis and to investigate the state of the art in the field of RDF data visualization. Existing solutions have to be classified and evaluated according to the previously identified requirements. Finally, an approach of a Microfrontend-based approach to visualize and browse RDF data has to be conceptualized, implemented, and evaluated based on the requirements.
