Hopefully this is reachable from outside of NIST:
http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=902120
Rendering UML Activity Diagrams as Human-Readable Text
Although the application in that paper was UML Activity Diagrams,
the approach can be applied to other types of graph-structured
representations. The key idea was to serialize the graph in a way
that maintains the kind of locality of focus that a human reader
needs. (The opposite approach, to flatten the graph into RDF
triples or whatever, is much simpler for machine-readability but
puts a higher cognitive load on a human reader.)
Per previous comments, there is no one-size-fits-all answer, but
this is at least another representation with unique qualities that
might be the best fit in some cases.
In digest mode,
--
David Flater, National Institute of Standards and Technology,
U.S.A.
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