Interactive Visualization of Large OWL Instance Sets

The adaption of Semantic Web techniques in real-world applications showed that it becomes a more and more demanding issue to understand not only the conceptual knowledge of an ontology but also the highly dynamic knowledge consisting of individuals and relationships between them. In this paper, we present an visualization paradigm and a prototypical implementation which allows to interactively browse large sets of individuals and to discover relationships between them in an easy and animated manner. The approach is optimized for efficient navigation as well as manipulation of ontologies containing a large number of individuals.

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@InProceedings{, author = {Olaf Noppens, Thorsten Liebig}, title = {{Interactive Visualization of Large OWL Instance Sets}}, booktitle = {Proc.\ of the Third Int.\ Semantic Web User Interaction Workshop (SWUI 2006)}, year = 2006, address = {Athens, GA, USA}, month = {November} }