Discovering Co-Author Relationship In Wocad Data Using Ontology Visualization

Nowadays, ontologies become more and more important as a tool to organize and structure information, and they are considered powerful strategies for designing more easy and precise to use information searching. Ontology visualizations can help in this regard by supporting in the exploration and verification of ontologies.[1] In this research, we decide to build the ontology of WOCAD publications-authors relational database, and further visualize it with VOWL. We build a web system that users can choose which classes of the WOCAD ontology they want to focus on. Graph visualizations are useful only up to a specific graph size, at which point the overview is lost and the graph is difficult to use.[2] With this system, members of CAADRIA who is less familiar with ontologies can understand the WOCAD ontology context quickly. It helps WOCAD ontology user takes less time to learn the knowledge about ontology theory.