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This chapter reports efforts to build an experimental platform for the retrieval and exploration of ontological data for the Semantic Web. The focus for exploring and browsing ontological data is a program called OntoRama, a Java client that browses ontologies in a hyperbolic-style layout. This chapter discusses some of the issues relating to visualizing ontologies, developing a peer-to-peer extension of OntoRama allowing cooperative ontology development and the creation of the RDF Distillery web-site as a location for the validation, collection and distribution of RDF ontologies.
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Eklund, P., Cole, R., Roberts, N. (2004). Retrieving and Exploring Ontology-based Information. In: Staab, S., Studer, R. (eds) Handbook on Ontologies. International Handbooks on Information Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24750-0_20
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