Re: visual OWL #invaluable

Hi,

Another tool for visual representation of OWL ontologies is OwlGrEd:
http://owlgred.lumii.lv

Here is an example of its visualizations:
http://owlgred.lumii.lv/online_visualization/koala.owl

Best regards,
Uldis Bojars




On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 at 18:27, John <jflynn12@verizon.net> wrote:

> Of course I am somewhat biased, but I developed the first visual
> representation of OWL (VisioOWL) (1) as a follow on to my development of
> VisioDAML (2). The DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML) was the precursor to
> OWL. As the project manager for the DAML integration effort I had a
> difficult time explaining the concept of an ontology to potential user
> communities. I would attempt to use examples using the XML syntax to get
> the point across but that often didn’t work well. So I developed VisioDAML
> as a way to visually explain both the overall concept of ontologies and
> also to demonstrate specific domain ontologies to domain experts. When DAML
> morphed into OWL I modified VisioDAML into VisioOWL and it continued to
> help many understand the idea of ontologies. I also found that using
> VisioOWL to graphically represent a specific OWL ontology resulted in the
> discovery of errors in the original XML syntax. Mistakes that were hard to
> recognize in the XML syntax became obvious in the VisioOWL representation.
> I don’t have anything negative to say about VOWL. However, I do think
> VisioOWL is still the most faithful graphical representation of the XML
> syntax for an ontology and if development of features for VisioOWL had been
> continued past 2003, when I retired,  it would be a better overall visual
> representation approach.
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>
> John Flynn
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>    1. https://sites.google.com/site/semanticsimulations2/visioowl
>    2. http://www.daml.org/visiodaml/
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> *From:* Paola Di Maio <paola.dimaio@gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 20, 2020 1:25 AM
> *To:* SW-forum <semantic-web@w3.org>
> *Subject:* Fwd: visual OWL #invaluable
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> Greetings
>
> I know, this list is now mostly used for announcements and rants but, was
> this beautiful
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> visual OWL suite of apps, especially the web app announced here?
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> http://vowl.visualdataweb.org/
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> If so,  I may have missed it
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> Just found it, and very nice (and easy on the brain) to visualize OWL via
> the browser
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> Looks like the last release date is nov 19, which is very recent
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> Thank you!
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> just discovered visual OWL!!
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> ontologies are easier to visualize for humans if there are visuals
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> I especially like the web app which does not require any download
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> http://vowl.visualdataweb.org/
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> (still trying to figure out how to import an owl file)
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> Looks like very nice work
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> #invaluable
>