Re: [Ann] WebVOWL 0.3 - Visualize your ontology on the web

Great job!

I'm particularly happy because it shows good support for an RDFS 
ontology 
(http://vowl.visualdataweb.org/webvowl/#iri=http://purl.org/dita/ns).

Lately I see new tools that mostly support OWL ontologies, so thanks a lot!

Colin Maudry
@CMaudry

On 22-Dec-14 13:04, Steffen Lohmann wrote:
> Kingsley, Alfredo, Timothy, Melvin,
>
> thank you for your comments and ideas.
>
> On 19.12.2014 17:57, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
>> do you have a permalink feature that makes any visualization doc 
>> shareable via HTTP URLs ? 
>
> Yes, we have (as already indicated by Melvin). For instance, you can 
> use 
> http://vowl.visualdataweb.org/webvowl/#iri=http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/ 
> to visualize the FOAF vocabulary - see 
> http://vowl.visualdataweb.org/webvowl.html
>
>
> On 21.12.2014 04:11, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
>> I would normally expect a ? in the query string however, rather than, 
>> # which I presume is the 1337 way to hide the ontology from the server.
>
> Good point. We discuss it and maybe change to the query identifier (?) 
> instead of the fragment identifier (#) in the next version of WebVOWL.
>
>
> On 19.12.2014 17:57, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
>> what about connecting your "custom ontology" feature to prefix.cc [1] 
>> and LOV [2] ? 
>
> That could indeed be nice and is already possible due to the 
> customizable HTTP requests (see above).
>
>
> On 19.12.2014 17:57, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
>> Would you be able to make HTTP URIs that identify terms defined by a 
>> selected ontology live? For instance, if I am exploring FOAF, and I 
>> click on the foaf:Agent node, I should have an HTTP URI anchoring the 
>> text "Agent [FOAF]" which then makes that node a live LOD Cloud 
>> conduit. I notice you provide this capability via "selection 
>> details", but I don't think most will realize its existence. 
>
> Adding selected classes to the URL is a nice idea that we will discuss 
> together with the above issue about the fragment identifier. If I got 
> you right, you would like to have something like
> http://vowl.visualdataweb.org/webvowl/index.html?iri=http://purl.org/muto/core#Tagging 
>
> which would then visualize the MUTO ontology and automatically select 
> (and highlight) the "Tagging" class.
> Is that correct?
>
>
> On 20.12.2014 14:54, Alfredo Serafini wrote:
>> any plans for integrating individuals visualization?
> The number of instances is visually indicated by the radius of the 
> circle representing the class (if there are any instances for a 
> class). The number is also given in the "Selection Details", and the 
> total number in the "Statistics". Apart from that, we have not 
> integrated any ABox information into WebVOWL so far. Although VOWL 2 
> focuses on the visualization of the TBox of ontologies, we may 
> incorporate at least some additional ABox information in the future.
>
>
> On 20.12.2014 23:43, Timothy W. Cook wrote:
>> It would be great to see meta data such as dc:description when you 
>> hover over the images. 
>
> Timothy, I am not sure what you mean here. Currently, the complete 
> label of the hovered element is shown in a tooltip, while additional 
> information is provided in the "Selection Details" in the sidebar. As 
> WebVOWL focuses on OWL, Dublin Core is currently only interpreted when 
> being used as metadata for the entire ontology (i.e., for the title, 
> author, and description info in the sidebar). Could you clarify?
>
> Cheers,
> Steffen
>