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Ontology Visualization Tools: A Bibliographic Review and a Proposal

Authors Ezra Gomes Marques, Cristiana Araújo , Pedro Rangel Henriques

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Ezra Gomes Marques
  • ALGORITMI Research Centre/LASI - DI, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
Cristiana Araújo
  • ALGORITMI Research Centre/LASI - DI, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
Pedro Rangel Henriques
  • ALGORITMI Research Centre/LASI - DI, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

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This work has been supported by FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia within the R&D Units Project Scope: UIDB/00319/2020. The Ph.D. work of Cristiana Araújo is supported by FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Research Grant, with reference 2020.09845.BD, https://doi.org/10.54499/2020.09845.BD.

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Ezra Gomes Marques, Cristiana Araújo, and Pedro Rangel Henriques. Ontology Visualization Tools: A Bibliographic Review and a Proposal. In 13th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2024). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 120, pp. 3:1-3:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)
https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2024.3

Abstract

Information can be graphically presented to users through different visualization methods, which can be complemented by various features meant to facilitate the navigation and interpretation of the presented information. Many of these methods and features are already in use by current ontology visualization tools, while others, along with some concepts from the broader field of information visualization, are merely explored in the literature despite their potential to also be applied in this specific field. This paper aims to analyze key characteristics of the current state of the art of ontology visualization tools, as well as the notable benefits and limitations of each of them, by extensively reviewing this body of work. Additionally, it also aims to demonstrate how the resulting insight has aided the development of PrOnto, a new platform dedicated to the visualization of OntoDL+ ontologies.

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  • Information systems → Ontologies
  • Human-centered computing → Information visualization
Keywords
  • Ontology
  • Information Visualization
  • Ontology Visualization
  • Ontology Navigation
  • OntoDL+

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