OntoGraphs

Graphical visualisation of ontologies from naming and symbols

Graphical visualization

OntoGraphs visualize ontologies using the naming conventions and symbols from Ontological concepts. They are distinct from arbitrary diagrams: layout and edge styles follow the treatise so that graphs remain readable as ontology pictures rather than generic UML sketches. The canonical site implements them with graphviz/dot conventions; [Bens2014] discusses graphical KG conventions referenced in TAoKE’s introduction.

[AlHe2020] relates similar ideas to tool-based RDF/OWL views.

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The rule-network and triple graph views serve a comparable purpose for executable rules: keep conceptual OntoGraphs and implementation graphs consistent where possible.

Source: taoke.de — OntoGraphs.

References

  1. [AlHe2020] Dean Allemang, Jim Hendler, Fabien Gandon, Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist - Effective Modeling in RDFS and OWL, Third Edition, ACM Books series, Nbr. 33 , 2020, ISBN: 978-1-4503-7614-3
  2. [Bens2014] Hermann Bense, The Unique Predication of Knowledge Elements and their Visualization and Factorization in Ontology Engineering, Kutz O, Garbacz P (eds.), Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference (FOIS 2014), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sept. 22-25 , 2014, IOS Press, Amsterdam, DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-438-1-251, pp. 241-250, https://ebooks.iospress.nl/publication/37972, last visit: 09.04.2026