Re: [ontolog-forum] visualizing ontologies to blind people

[chaim Zins <chaim.zins@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks. I will summarize my finding hopefully tomorrow. Chaim

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:30 PM, David Flater <dflater@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

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,

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