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Ontology visualization methods—a survey

Authors:

Akrivi Katifori,

Constantin Halatsis,

George Lepouras,

Costas Vassilakis,

Eugenia GiannopoulouAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), Volume 39, Issue 4

Pages 10 - es

https://doi.org/10.1145/1287620.1287621

Published: 02 November 2007 Publication History

Abstract

Ontologies, as sets of concepts and their interrelations in a specific domain, have proven to be a useful tool in the areas of digital libraries, the semantic web, and personalized information management. As a result, there is a growing need for effective ontology visualization for design, management and browsing. There exist several ontology visualization methods and also a number of techniques used in other contexts that could be adapted for ontology representation. The purpose of this article is to present these techniques and categorize their characteristics and features in order to assist method selection and promote future research in the area of ontology visualization.

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