Visualizing ontologies with VOWL

Semantic Web

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 399-419

  Lohmann, Steffen ^a   Negru, Stefan ^b,c   Haag, Florian ^a   Ertl, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA UNIVERSITY OF IASI   (Romania)

^c MSD IT Global Innovation Center   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

notation; ontology; OWL; visualization; VOWL

Indexed keywords

EID: 84971578687     PISSN: 15700844     EISSN: 22104968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/SW-150200     Document Type: Conference Paper

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