Paper Info
Title
VOWL 2: User-Oriented Visualization of Ontologies.
Abstract
Ontologies become increasingly important as a means to structure and organize information. This requires methods and tools that enable not only ontology experts but also other user groups to work with ontologies and related data. We have developed VOWL, a comprehensive and well-specified visual language for the user-oriented representation of ontologies, and conducted a comparative study on an initial version of VOWL. Based upon results from that study, as well as an extensive review of other ontology visualizations, we have reworked many parts of VOWL. In this paper, we present the new version VOWL 2 and describe how the initial definitions were used to systematically redefine the visual notation. Besides the novelties of the visual language, which is based on a well-defined set of graphical primitives and an abstract color scheme, we briefly describe two implementations of VOWL 2. To gather some insight into the user experience with the new version of VOWL, we have conducted a qualitative user study. We report on the study and its results, which confirmed that not only the general ideas of VOWL but also most of our enhancements for VOWL 2 can be well understood by casual ontology users.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/978-3-319-13704-9_21
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Keywords
Field
DocType
Ontology,visualization,owl,vowl,visual language,semantic web,protege,prefuse,d3,svg,user study
Ontology (information science),Ontology,Data mining,Visual language,User experience design,Protégé,Information retrieval,Computer science,Visualization,Semantic Web,IDEF5
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
8876
0302-9743
30
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.48
23
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Steffen Lohmann162965.25
Stefan Negru2978.55
Florian Haag38510.30
Thomas Ertl44417401.52