Paper Info
Title
Towards a unified visual notation for OWL ontologies: insights from a comparative user study
Abstract
Browsing ontologies and making sense of their concepts and relationships are important activities in knowledge engineering. They are supported by a large number of tools that often provide visual representations of the ontologies for better illustration. However, different notations are used to represent the ontologies which can be confusing when switching tools. Furthermore, many representations provide only basic overviews of the ontologies that are not sufficient to get a deeper understanding of the concepts and relationships. A unified visual notation for OWL ontologies would be most helpful to overcome these limitations. Having this goal in mind, we compare two different notations for OWL ontologies in this paper: the UML profile of the Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM) and the Visual Notation for OWL Ontologies (VOWL). We report on a comparative user study of these notations and discuss benefits and limitations raised by the study participants. Based on these findings, we draw some general conclusions regarding the development of a unified visual notation for OWL ontologies.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1145/2506182.2506192
I-SEMANTICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
study participant,browsing ontology,uml profile,visual representation,comparative user study,unified visual notation,ontology definition metamodel,owl ontologies,owl ontology,different notation,semantic web,uml,owl
Ontology (information science),Data mining,Notation,Information retrieval,Unified Modeling Language,Computer science,Semantic Web,IDEF5,Knowledge engineering,Ontology Definition MetaModel,Visual notation
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.91
17
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stefan Negru1978.55
Florian Haag28510.30
Steffen Lohmann362965.25