Towards RVL: a declarative language for visualizing RDFS/OWL data

Authors:
Jan Polowinski
Affiliations:
Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Venue:
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics
Year:
2013

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Abstract

Information on how to visualize RDF data is stored differently by each visualization tool to date. We propose the RDFS/OWL Visualization Language (RVL), a declarative language for sharing visualization settings as simple as CSS styles. The mapping definitions can be given a URI and shared along with the data to be visualized, they can be composed, extended and reused. The declarative approach has the benefit that this can be done independently of specific platforms. Unlike styling or presentation languages for RDF or pure visualization languages, RVL combines rich visual mapping capabilities with the direct awareness of RDFS/OWL language constructs.