LexInfo visualization or description

[chiarcos]

Problem: When trying to introduce non-specialists (say, linguists) into OntoLex and LexInfo, it is relatively cumbersome to expose them to RDF/XML or Turtle. Although ontology browsers provide adequate visualizations, they have a substantial entry barrier. It would be desirable to be able to provide either a high-level description of the structure and the individual terms or a diagram that illustrates the hierarchical organization. Also, it would be desirable if that document or diagram would be provided as part of the documentation (i.e., lexinfo.net) so that it can serve as a stable reference.

Proposed solution: HTML rendering showing subclass hierarchy, instances and subproperty hierarchy (say, akin to the ancient OWL2HTML rendering)

Alternative solution: Graphical visualization (say, akin to WebVOWL, but static)

[jmccrae]

It is a nice idea @chiarcos. Are you planning to create a PR to demonstrate this?

[chiarcos]

Not immediately, maybe in the long run. But it felt to be an important problem in practice and I wanted to have it recorded, for the moment. I would be good to prepare something like this for the OntoLex face-to-face meeting at LDK-2023, or at least to discuss there what experiences people made so far with existing visualizations.

[chiarcos]

I put a partial solution (PDF graphics, via GraphViz, showing RDFS hierarchy only) under https://github.com/acoli-repo/rdfs2html/tree/main/pdf; *.pdf is the direct GraphViz output (on a single page), *.poster.pdf is scaled up to 4 pages for better readability and printability.

[chiarcos]

Visualization under https://github.com/acoli-repo/rdfs2html/tree/main/pdf now extended for properties