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| Type | Conference or Workshop Paper |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Published in Proceedings | Yes |
| Title | ChImp: Visualizing Ontology Changes and their Impact in Protégé |
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| Presentation Type | paper |
| Item Subtype | Original Work |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Status | Published in final form |
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| Event Title | Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies and Linked Data, co-located with ISWC2020 |
| Event Type | workshop |
| Event Location | virtual |
| Event Start Date | November 2 - 2020 |
| Event End Date | November 2 - 2020 |
| Publisher | CEUR-WS.org |
| Abstract Text | Today, ontologies are an established part of many applications and research. However, ontologies evolve over time, and ontology editors---engineers and domain experts---need to be aware of the consequences of changes while editing. Ontology editors might not be fully aware of how they are influencing consistency, quality, or the structure of the ontology, possibly causing applications to fail. To support editors and increase their sensitivity towards the consequences of their actions, we conducted a user survey to elicit preferences for representing changes, e.g., with ontology metrics such as number of classes and properties. Based on the survey, we developed ChImp---a Protégé plug-in to display information about the impact of changes in real-time. During editing of the ontology, ChImp lists the applied changes, checks and displays the consistency status, and reports measures describing the effect on the structure of the ontology. Akin to software IDEs and integrated testing approaches, we hope that displaying such metrics will help to improve ontology evolution processes in the long run. |
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| Other Identification Number | merlin-id:19908 |
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