Ontological Visualization of Knowledge Structures Based on the Operational Management of Information Objects

Abstract

The properties of ontological models to reflect the conceptual view of a researcher on a certain subject area and uniquely determine its concept, structure, accumulate and reuse knowledge repeatedly and make it possible to widely use it in the educational process. However, the existing tools for constructing ontological models of ontology knowledge (Protégé in integration with OWLViz, OntoGraf, 3D Hyperbolyc, Tree, TODOS, etc.) only partially satisfy the needs of the educational process. The choice of a particular visualization method is specific and has its own characteristics depending on the task. When choosing visualization tools, it is important that they do not only help to effectively reflect all the information, but, at the same time, allow the user to perform easily various operations on ontologies. There is no single definite method that is universal. The article describes the author’s web resource https://ontos.xyz, designed to create and visualize the hierarchical structure of subject areas using an ontograph, is implemented as a combination of content-containing concepts (vertices, nodes) and the relationships between these concepts. The authors determine the possibilities of using the ontological approach in the pedagogical process by the example of working with the web resource they created, which provides convenient use of ontologies. The article discusses examples of using ontologies to provide semantic annotation for collections of images, sound and other non-text objects; for the development of documentation of arbitrary volume; for building directories with the ability to support the surjective connection of objects (nodes); to simplify the performance of search work, etc. The purpose of the article is to reveal the features of the use of ontological structures for visualizing knowledge schemes and components of the operational management of information objects.