Dear all, I agree with Peter's statement. Regarding graphical notations, I would like to call everybody's attention to the work of Daniel Moody [1], an excellent work setting the foundations of why, what and how graphical notations can be helpful. It should certainly be taken into account if such a notation should be proposed, but I also agree that at the current stage it is still more a research problem than a standardization problem. [1] Daniel L. Moody: The “Physics” of Notations: Toward a Scientific Basis for Constructing Visual Notations in Software Engineering. IEEE Trans. Software Eng. 35(6): 756-779 (2009). Pdf at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=05353439. On Jun 28, 2013, at 01:39 - 28/06/13, "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfpschneider@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm having trouble understanding the purpose of having a common/accepted visual representation of an ontology. Would this representation help in standardizing ontologies? Would it help in transmitting ontologies? Would tools be required to consume it? > > This is not to say that there is not a pressing need for more ontology visualization tools. On the contrary, every time I look at ontologies of any size, I become depressed at how bad ontology visualization tools are. (Of course, what I want is to see just what I need to see, arranged in just the way that makes it easiest for me to understand aspects of the ontology that I understand.) This seems to point out a need for research, not standardization, however. > > Peter F. Patel-Schneider > > On Jun 27, 2013, at 8:39 PM, Renato Iannella <ri@semanticidentity.com> wrote: > >> >> RDF/OWL have well-defined technical encodings (xml, turtle, etc) but there is no such common/accepted representation for a graphical notation. >> That is, a visual representation of an ontology that captures (graphically) all the semantics of RDF/OWL. >> >> I have collected a few examples of various graphical notations here: http://www.w3.org/wiki/SemWebGraphicalNotation >> >> Is there any interest from members of the SWIG to look at this in more detail, and potentially propose such graphical notation for RDF/OWL? >> (This could be via this IG or a new Community Group.) >> >> Cheers... >> Renato Iannella >> Semantic Identity >> http://semanticidentity.com >> Mobile: +61 4 1313 2206 >> > []s DReceived on Friday, 28 June 2013 17:36:48 UTC
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