All,
I believe you will find this effort interesting, at the very least
:-)
Read on...
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Hi all,
we are glad to announce that version 2.0 of the Visual Notation for OWL
Ontologies (VOWL) has been published a few weeks ago. Along with the
specification, we released a Protégé plugin and a web tool that
implement large parts of VOWL. The works may be of interest to those of
you who would like to visualize (smaller) ontologies in an intuitive
way. They can be tested online at: http://vowl.visualdataweb.org
We are currently working on an improved JSON structure and additional
functionality for the web tool (WebVOWL) to allow for an easier
transformation of OWL to JSON and to provide a more compact
visualization for larger ontologies. We are also planning to integrate
further visual elements from the spec into the Protégé plugin
(ProtégéVOWL). VOWL itself will also be advanced in the future to
consider further OWL elements (particularly from OWL 2) and additional
cases.
Note that the focus of VOWL 2 is on the ontology schema (i.e. the
classes, properties and datatypes, sometimes called TBox), while the
focus of VOWL 1 was on the integrated representation of classes and
individuals (TBox and ABox) - which is, however, still possible with VOWL 2.
On behalf of the VOWL team,
Steffen
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Steffen Lohmann . Institute for Visualization and Interactive Systems
University of Stuttgart . Universitaetstrasse 38 . D-70569 Stuttgart
Phone: +49 711 685-88438 . http://www.vis.uni-stuttgart.de/~lohmansn
Kingsley