Using Hierarchical Edge Bundles to Visualize Complex Ontologies in GLOW

W Hop; S de Ridder; Frederik Hogenboom; Flavius Frasincar

doi:10.1145/2245276.2245338

Using Hierarchical Edge Bundles to Visualize Complex Ontologies in GLOW

W Hop, S de Ridder, Frederik Hogenboom, Flavius Frasincar

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In the past decade, much effort has been put into the visual representation of ontologies. However, present visualization strategies are not equipped to handle complex ontologies with many relations, leading to visual clutter and inefficient use of space. In this paper, we propose GLOW, a method for ontology visualization based on Hierarchical Edge Bundles. Hierarchical Edge Bundles is a new visually attractive technique for displaying relations in hierarchical data, such as concept structures formed by 'subclass-of' and 'type-of' relations. We have developed a visualization library based on OWL API, as well as a plug-in for Protégé, a well-known ontology editor. The displayed adjacency relations can be selected from an ontology using a set of common configurations, allowing for intuitive discovery of information. Our evaluation demonstrates that the GLOW visualization provides better visual clarity, and displays relations and complex ontologies better than the existing Protégé visualization plug-in Jambalaya.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Twenty-Seventh Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2012)
Editors	S. Ossowski, P. Lecca
Publisher	ACM
Pages	304-311
Number of pages	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2245276.2245338
Publication status	Published - 26 Mar 2011

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