Ontology visualization methods—a survey

@article{Katifori2007OntologyVM,
  title={Ontology visualization methods—a survey},
  author={Akrivi Katifori and Constantin Halatsis and George Lepouras and Costas Vassilakis and Eugenia G. Giannopoulou},
  journal={ACM Comput. Surv.},
  year={2007},
  volume={39},
  pages={10}
}
Ontologies, as sets of concepts and their interrelations in a specific domain, have proven to be a useful tool in the areas of digital libraries, the semantic web, and personalized information management. As a result, there is a growing need for effective ontology visualization for design, management and browsing. There exist several ontology visualization methods and also a number of techniques used in other contexts that could be adapted for ontology representation. The purpose of this… 
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