Ontology Driven Visualisation of Maps with SVG - An Example for Semantic Programming

Author

Ipfelkofer, Frank ; Lorenz, Bernhard ; Ohlbach, Hans Jürgen

Author_Institution

Inst. for Informatics, Ludwig-Maximilians Univ., Munich

fYear

2006

fDate

5-7 July 2006

Firstpage

424

Lastpage

429

Abstract

This article describes a particular use of ontologies for visualising maps in a browser window. Geographic data are represented as instances of concepts in an ontology of transportation networks which was designed in close relation to GDF. These data are transformed into SVG, whereas the transformation is specified symbolically as instances of a transformation ontology. This approach is extremely flexible and easily extendible to include all kinds of information in the generated maps. The basic implementation technique is to use classes and instances of ontologies in an intelligent way. This article is an abbreviated version of the research report

Keywords

data visualisation; online front-ends; ontologies (artificial intelligence); semantic Web; browser window; ontology driven visualisation; scalable vector graphics; semantic Web; semantic programming; transformation ontology; transportation networks; visualising maps; Computer graphics; Data visualization; Geographic Information Systems; Image generation; Informatics; OWL; Ontologies; Rendering (computer graphics); Semantic Web; Transportation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Visualization, 2006. IV 2006. Tenth International Conference on

Conference_Location

London, England

ISSN

1550-6037

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2602-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IV.2006.79

Filename

1648295