TY - GEN
T1 - ChImp
T2 - 5th International Workshop on Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies and Linked Data, VOILA 2020
AU - Pernisch, R.
AU - Serbak, M.
AU - Dell'Aglio, D.
AU - Bernstein, A.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Copyright © 2020 for this paper by its authors. Use permitted under Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).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.
AB - Copyright © 2020 for this paper by its authors. Use permitted under Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).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.
M3 - Conference contribution
VL - 2778
T3 - CEUR Workshop Proceedings
SP - 47
EP - 60
BT - VOILA 2020 - Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies and Linked Data, co-located with the 19th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2020
A2 - Ivanova, V.
A2 - Lambrix, P.
A2 - Pesquita, C.
A2 - Wiens, V.
PB - CEUR-WS
Y2 - 2 November 2020
ER -