Category Archives: VISO

Visualisation Ontology (VISO)

The RDFS/OWL Visualisation Language is using VISO

Posted on August 8, 2013 by admin

The RDFS/OWL Visualisation Language (RVL) is using concepts from the VISO/graphic ontology. The language allows for describing mappings from RDFS/OWL concepts to graphic attributes such as (viso-graphic:color_hsl_lightness) or other graphic relations (e.g. viso-graphic:Containment_Relation). Look at the post on RVL by … Continue reading →

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VISO: A Shared, Formal Knowledge Base as a Foundation for Semi-automatic InfoVis Systems

Posted on May 17, 2013 by Jan Polowinski

New publication on the VISO ontology: VISO: A Shared, Formal Knowledge Base as a Foundation for Semi-automatic InfoVis Systems Polowinski, Jan, und Martin Voigt. In CHI  ’13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI WIP  ’13. Paris, France: … Continue reading →

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Find the VISO Docu now directly at purl.org/VISO/

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Jan Polowinski

The VISO documentation can now be accessed directly from the ontology’s URL, e.g. http://purl.org/viso/ or http://purl.org/viso/graphic/ You may also call resource-URIs like http://purl.org/viso/graphic/Interactive_Technique Thanks to content negotiation, your ontology tools such as TopBraid Composer will still be able to receive … Continue reading →

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Link to new documentation for VISO

Posted on November 14, 2012 by admin

A new documentation of the current VISO version can temporarily be found here (you can call the documentation now directly from  http://purl.org/viso/). Other modules may be browsed by following links in the page, but are not completely documented. Each resource … Continue reading →

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Directly pointing the browser to VISO concepts

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Jan Polowinski

You can now* point the Browser directly to concepts in the VISO: http://purl.org/viso/graphic/Containment_Relation *Thanks to improvements in LODE, the tool for live documenting ontologies, we use. Thank you to Silvio Peroni for this!

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Technical Report on VISO

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Jan Polowinski

You can find documentation on the process of creating VISO and possible use cases in a technical report that we published: Towards a Unifying Visualization Ontology . [BibTeX]  

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VISO Modules

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Jan Polowinski

The following modules are online: http://purl.org/viso/ http://purl.org/viso/graphic/ http://purl.org/viso/data/ http://purl.org/viso/facts/ http://purl.org/viso/anno/

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Alpha Version of the Visualisation Ontology (VISO)

Posted on March 11, 2011 by admin

Please note: Links may be out of date here. The new document can be found here. An alpha version of the Visualisation Ontology (VISO) can be browsed on the web. You may have to load VISO by selecting it from … Continue reading →

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Discussion on VISO is open

Posted on March 11, 2011 by admin

We call for participation in discussing, improving and extending the Visualisation Ontology (VISO) at  http://viso.qhub.com/ . Everybody is welcome to criticize our initial approach.

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