Jambalaya: The closest visualisation fit for the protégé ontology conceptual-relationship tracer
Muthukkaruppan Annamalai, Hamid Reza Mohseni · 2010
Retrieving the relevant background information about the conceptual-relationships defined in an ontology is a prerequisite for evaluating the competency of the ontology. For this purpose, a Conceptual-Relationship Tracer (CRT) for Protégé ontologies has been developed in a previous work. Protégé ontologies are web-ontologies developed using the Protégé ontology editor. The CRT's textual output is sometimes hard to trace, making the intended information difficult to understand. We regard, a distinct visualisation of the output can help to better convey the intended information, thus improving its understandability. The candidates are TGViz, OntoViz and Jambalaya, the three independently developed Protégé visualiser plugins. In this paper, we provide a set of visualisation factors to qualitatively compare the utility and the usability potentials of the candidates, and to decide which one is best at providing the requisite visualisation support for the CRT. The results of the analyses show that Jambalaya is the closest visualisation fit.