View source for VisualizingRDF

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''How can I view my RDF document as a diagram?''

* try  [http://www.w3.org/2001/02pd/ Circles and arrows diagrams using stylesheet rules]
* the [http://www.w3.org/RDF/Validator/ RDF validation service] can make very simple diagrams
* [[IsaViz]] uses [[GraphStyleSheet]]s
* [http://objectviewer.daml.org/ DAML object viewer], Jeremy Lerner and company
** [http://protege.stanford.edu Protege] can load in RDF files and has a variety of tab plugins for visualizing the result.  With the [http://protege.stanford.edu/plugins/owl/ OWL plugin] Protege 2.0 can load OWL as well.
*** [http://www.shrimpviews.org/downloads.htm Jambalaya] - University of Victoria
*** [http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~ha/TGVizTab/TGVizTab.htm TgVizTab] - University of Southampton
*** [http://protege.stanford.edu/plugins/ontoviz/ontoviz.html OntoViz]
*** [http://iweb.etri.re.kr/ezowl/index.html EZOwl] - plugin for OWL ontology editing and viewing
* [[Morla]] creates customizable diagrams.

''How can I display RDF documents?''

* use XSLT ([[LinkMe]]: rec54 schema)
* As Pepper points out in [http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/rdf.html Ten Theses on Topic Maps and RDF], in general, RDF semantics are too general-purpose/low-level to support browsing. Perhaps we should embed [[TopicMaps]] in the [[SemanticWeb]] so that we can at least browse the part of RDF that's in that subspace.
* try [http://www.w3.org/2002/05/semwalker/ SemWalker]

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[[Category:Faq]]
more [[FaqIdeas]]

[http://semweb.salzburgresearch.at/apps/rdf-gravity/index.html RDF-Gravity]

[http://triplestore.aktors.org/mspace/ mSpace Classical Music Browser]

[http://simile.mit.edu/piggy-bank/ SIMILE | Piggy-Bank]

[http://simile.mit.edu/welkin/index.html Welkin] -- graph-based RDF visualizer (SIMILE-project)