Ontology Visualization Tools Recommender

Consultation with the 'Ontology Visualization Tools Recommender' will help you find the most appropriate ontology visualization tool for your use case and your ontology. Consultation contains 4 questions. Here, you can use tailored web interface for the recommender system. Standard recommender system interface is accessible from recommender web-page description and further information about NEST expert system ontology visualization knowledge base is provided at supplementary web-page. In general, the recommender allows you to enter weights (within the interval <-3;3>) representing uncertainty of importance of given attribute/feature: in general the more important, the higher positive weight. The less important, the lower negative weight. Weight zero represents the fact that the answer is not relevant.

For the sake of better comprehensibility you can alternatively use web user interface, where we mapped weights to word expressions of uncertainty: Thus, the interpretation of a weight ranges across:

1. certainly (3),
2. probably (2),
3. perhaps (1),
4. indifferent (0),
5. perhaps not (-1),
6. probably not (-2) and
7. certainly not (-3).

Besides asking directly for uncertainty expressions, the system can ask for numbers which are then automatically converted to fuzzy intervals with computed weights, e.g. the ontology size question.

Screencasts and news

• Introduction to OVTR and its extensions
• NEW, 12-07-16 Scenario 2 (recommendation of an ontology visualization tool based on a given collection of ontologies) has been implemented, see below. Demonstrating screencast for multiple consultation.
• Integration with OOSP is mentioned in the screencast on the homepage of OOSP

1st consultation question about OWL features

How important are the following types of entities and relations in the ontology you want to visualize?

Are complex classes important for the ontology visualization?	(the weight from the interval <-3;3>)
Are inter-class relationships important for the ontology visualization?	(the weight from the interval <-3;3>)
Are object properties important for the ontology visualization?	(the weight from the interval <-3;3>)
Are datatype properties important for the ontology visualization?	(the weight from the interval <-3;3>)
Are property characteristics: important for the ontology visualization?	(the weight from the interval <-3;3>)

2nd consultation question about a preference of ontology development environment

How much you prefer the following ontology editors?

Do you prefer Protége 3?	(the weight from the interval <-3;3>)
Do you prefer Protége 4?	(the weight from the interval <-3;3>)
Do you prefer NeOn Toolkit?	(the weight from the interval <-3;3>)

3rd consultation question about an intended usage

How much the following types of actions are important to your actual or hypothetical use case which is to be supported by the visualization tool?

Do you want to make screenshots?	(the weight from the interval <-3;3>)
Do you want to check domain inconsistencies?	(the weight from the interval <-3;3>)
Do you want to check structural inconsistency?	(the weight from the interval <-3;3>)
Do you plan to reuse ontology?	(the weight from the interval <-3;3>)
Do you want to adapt an existing ontology to fit a new use case?	(the weight from the interval <-3;3>)
Do you want to develop a new ontology?	(the weight from the interval <-3;3>)
Do you search for the right ontology?	(the weight from the interval <-3;3>)
Do you want to analyze mappings of the ontology?	(the weight from the interval <-3;3>)

4th consultation question about the ontology size

How many entities (sum of all classes and properties, without instances) the ontology, you want to visualize, has? If your ontology has more than 1000 entities, please just enter the maximum 1000.

Ontology Size:

(size between 0 and 1001)

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