Ontology-based Information Visualisation

Frank van Harmelen
Jeen Broekstra
Christiaan Fluit
Herko ter Horst
Arjohn Kampman
Jos van der Meer
Marta Sabou

The main contribution of this paper is to show how visual representations of information can be based on ontological classifications of that information. We first discuss the central role of ontologies on the Semantic Web. We subsequently outline our general approach to the construction of ontology-based visualisations of data. This is followed by a set of examples of ontology-based visualisations which all differ in interesting respects. The paper concludes with a brief discussion of related work.

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@InProceedings{VSW01,
  author =       "Frank van Harmelen and Jeen Broekstra and Christiaan Fluit and
                  Herko ter Horst and Arjohn Kampman and Jos van der Meer
		  and Marta Sabou",
  title =        "Ontology-based Information Visualisation",
  booktitle =    "Proceedings of the workshop on Visualisation 
                  of the Semantic Web (VSW'01)",
  year =         2001,
  pages =        "36-48",
  address =      "London",
  note =         "in conjunction with the 5th International Conference 
                  on Information Visualisation",
  month =        "September",
  keywords = {Semantic Web},
  urlPaper = "http://www.cs.vu.nl/~frankh/postscript/VSW01.pdf"
}

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