Supporting User Tasks through Visualisation of Light-weight Ontologies

Introduction\n\nAs is abundantly clear from the other chapters in this volume, ontologies will\nplay a central role in the development and deployment of the Semantic Web.\nThey will be used for many di#erent purposes, ranging across information\nlocalisation, integration, querying, presentation and navigation.\n\nExperiences in other fields (Data Mining, Scientific Computing) have\nshown that visualisation techniques can be successfully employed to support\nmany of these tasks in those areas. The..