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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title xml:lang="en">jucs</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">0948-695X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">0948-6968</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Journal of Universal Computer Science</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3217/jucs-016-07-1036</article-id>
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          <subject>Research Article</subject>
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          <subject>H.1.2 - User/Machine Systems</subject>
          <subject>I.2.m - Miscellaneous</subject>
          <subject>I.6.3 - Applications</subject>
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        <article-title>Ontology Visualization: Tools and Techniques for Visual Representation of Semi-Structured Meta-Data</article-title>
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          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Lanzenberger</surname>
            <given-names>Monika</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:type="simple">lanzenberger@ifs.tuwien.ac.at</email>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Sampson</surname>
            <given-names>Jennifer</given-names>
          </name>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Rester</surname>
            <given-names>Markus</given-names>
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      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria</addr-line>
        <institution>Vienna University of Technology</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Vienna</addr-line>
        <country>Austria</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A2">
        <label>2</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Statoil, Bergen, Norway</addr-line>
        <institution>Statoil</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Bergen</addr-line>
        <country>Norway</country>
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      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: Monika Lanzenberger (<email xlink:type="simple">lanzenberger@ifs.tuwien.ac.at</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: </p>
        </fn>
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      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2010</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>01</day>
        <month>04</month>
        <year>2010</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>16</volume>
      <issue>7</issue>
      <fpage>1036</fpage>
      <lpage>1054</lpage>
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      <uri content-type="zenodo_dep_id" xlink:href="https://zenodo.org/record/7001185">7001185</uri>
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        <copyright-statement>Monika Lanzenberger, Jennifer Sampson, Markus Rester</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License.</license-p>
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      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>Ontologies are used to represent a variety of domain knowledge and data collections, scopes, viewpoints and linked heterogeneous information sources. They range from simple topologies to highly structured knowledge bases with complex relations. When mapping or aligning two or more ontologies an efficient user support is needed so that the users can understand the prerequisites and the consequences of the alignments. Information Visualization techniques can help to facilitate user understanding of the ontology alignment results. In general, a lot of work in visualization of ontologies exist. We found an enormous number of ontology visualization tools by a literature study. Many of them apply graph visualization but there are other approaches as well. We have identified interesting solutions for dealing with the complexity of large ontologies. Ontology engineering, ontology mapping and alignment can benefit from Information Visualization. Our collection is a starting point to demonstrate the usefulness of Information Visualization techniques, however, a detailed evaluation would be the next step to consolidate this research area and help to boost the adoption of ontologies in common Web applications.</p>
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