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Descriptive Comparison of Visual Ontology Change Summarisation Methods

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The Semantic Web: ESWC 2023 Satellite Events (ESWC 2023)

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The ontology evolution lifecycle is crucial for usability of ontologies across applications. Changes that are applied to ontologies need to be communicated comprehensively to ontology users and engineers. Change visualisation is a simple, yet powerful way of explaining ontological changes, and different methods come with different shortcomings. This paper introduces and analyses the predominant methods of ontology change visualisations. As there exists no one-fits-all solution, we provide simple guidelines for which visualisation to use.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Kornpol Chung, Romana Pernisch & Stefan Schlobach

  2. Discovery Lab, Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Romana Pernisch

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

    Catia Pesquita

  2. University of Nantes, Nantes, France

    Hala Skaf-Molli

  3. Foundation for Research and Technology, Heraklion, Greece

    Vasilis Efthymiou

  4. Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria

    Sabrina Kirrane

  5. University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany

    Axel Ngonga

  6. Fraunhofer IAIS, Sankt Augustin, Germany

    Diego Collarana

  7. IBM Research, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Renato Cerqueira

  8. Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France

    Mehwish Alam

  9. Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, Toulouse, France

    Cassia Trojahn

  10. University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

    Sven Hertling

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Chung, K., Pernisch, R., Schlobach, S. (2023). Descriptive Comparison of Visual Ontology Change Summarisation Methods. In: Pesquita, C., et al. The Semantic Web: ESWC 2023 Satellite Events. ESWC 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13998. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43458-7_10

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