Question

For example consider the ontology describes a family tree

I would want to represent this graphically on the web. For instance, the class ‘mother’ would have the image of a woman and the class ‘father’ would have that of a man.

The relationship such as childOf would be represented by a green arrow, whereas parentOf arrow would be in the opposite direction but represented by a red arrow.

The user should be able to navigate the tree ontology presented by this graphical model.

Could anybody advise on any resources to study. I have been advised to use HTML5, but am unsure of how to go about it. So basically, the main problem is how to represent the ontology graphically.

Any answer I would appreciate, many thanks.

Answer 1

Have you tried using graph viz – http://graphviz.org/content/kennedyanc , this example is rather similar to your case. What you are tryign to draw is a directed acyclic graph – googling for libraries shoudl give you more similar tools – hopefully its not necessary to write it yourself