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Proper visualization is essential for ontology development, sharing and usage; various use cases however pose specific requirements on visualization features. We analyzed several visualization tools from the perspective of use case categories as well as low-level functional features and OWL expressiveness. A rule-based recommender was subsequently developed to help the user choose a suitable visualizer. Both the analysis results and the recommender were evaluated via a questionnaire.
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Dudáš, M., Zamazal, O., Svátek, V. (2014). Roadmapping and Navigating in the Ontology Visualization Landscape. In: Janowicz, K., Schlobach, S., Lambrix, P., Hyvönen, E. (eds) Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management. EKAW 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8876. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13704-9_11
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