Towards a Visual Notation for OWL: A Brief Summary of VOWL

The Web Ontology Language (OWL) has no standardized visual notation in contrast to related modeling languages. However, the visual representation of individual and combined OWL elements as well as complete OWL ontologies can be very useful in many cases. We have developed the Visual Notation for OWL...

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Published inOntology Engineering Vol. 9557; pp. 143 - 153
Main Authors Lohmann, Steffen, Haag, Florian, Negru, Stefan
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland Springer International Publishing AG 2016
Springer International Publishing
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Subjects
Force-directed Graph Layout
Information retrieval
Main Design Principles
Node-link Diagrams
Related Modeling Languages
Visual Notation
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Summary:The Web Ontology Language (OWL) has no standardized visual notation in contrast to related modeling languages. However, the visual representation of individual and combined OWL elements as well as complete OWL ontologies can be very useful in many cases. We have developed the Visual Notation for OWL (VOWL) that defines graphical representations for most of the OWL language constructs. In contrast to related work, VOWL aims at a complete and well-specified notation that is easy to understand and implement. This paper reports on the current state of development and briefly describes the main design principles and considerations. At OWLED 2015, we conducted a special session to gather feedback on how to further improve the visual notation and to collect requirements for its future development.
ISBN:3319332449
9783319332444
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-33245-1_15