Modelos de visualização de informação para ontologias de domínio

Abstract

This paper presents the theoretical and methodological foundations and the partial results of a doctoral research in development. The objective of the research is to analyze information visualization models for domain ontologies, aimed at determining requirements for a tool which makes access to semantically structured informational content, in order to favor cognitive aspects of users. The research has an applied nature and is characterized, concerning its objectives, as exploratory and descriptive. On the design of the research, the planned technical procedures are: bibliographic, experimental and case study research. The development of the study foresees an use context analysis, involving interviews with users, through Usability Engineering resources, in a case study for an ontology of the agricultural and livestock domain, created by Embrapa Agricultural Computing. The results shown in this article refer to an analysis of twenty-two papers published in the scientific literature for ontology visualization for the period of 2000 to 2014. In the next stages of the project are planned analysis of users, tasks, environment and tools for ontologies visualization. As a final result it is expected to propose a set of requirements, focused on the needs of the users, for domain ontologies visualization tools.