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Visualizing Ontologies – A Literature Survey

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Graph-Based Representation and Reasoning (ICCS 2016)

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Information, as a representation of the “real world”, is required to faithfully demonstrate the relevant aspects of the application domain. To describe the structure of a domain, various fields have employed ontological models. Visualization of the said ontologies can improve tasks such as understanding of implicit knowledge as well as information alignment. The present work provides a survey on the methodologies proposed for visualizing ontologies in the literature, and also performs a statistical synthesis (i.e. meta-analysis) to quantitatively review some of the empirical studies that focused on the impact of visualization enhancement.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The term “ontology” was first coined in 1613 in works by Rudolf Göckel and Jacob Lorhard [24].

  2. 2.

    http://protegewiki.stanford.edu/wiki/Protege_Ontology_Library. Accessed on 08/12/2015.

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    http://dbpedia.org/services-resources/ontology. Accessed on 14/03/2016.

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    http://protege.stanford.edu. Accessed on 08/12/2015.

  5. 5.

    Cited 340 times based on Google Scholar data, as of 08/12/2015.

  6. 6.

    Descriptive statistics were not provided for this study.

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Acknowledgment

Gratitude to my mentor Yair Wand for his influential role on my career thus far, and special thanks to Tamara Munzner for her comments and feedback as instructor of the graduate course in Information Visualization that catalyzed this work.

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Saghafi, A. (2016). Visualizing Ontologies – A Literature Survey. In: Haemmerlé, O., Stapleton, G., Faron Zucker, C. (eds) Graph-Based Representation and Reasoning. ICCS 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9717. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40985-6_16

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