Displaying Thesauri, their relations and their uses#

Inspiration was given by Simon Spero: http://www.ibiblio.org/ses/poster.pdf

GraphViz has been integrated in ASKOSI to show the context of each concept in the hierarchies together with related ("See Also") concepts.

Visual schemas bring real benefits to analyze the relations of any given concept with its neighbourhood. Semantical errors become visually evident and can be discussed in meetings.

For instance, in toxicology, the toxins from Cobra:

More graphic examples#

• JITA: http://www.destin.be/askosi/concept.jsp?concept=jita_PERE&graf=en#Graf
• AgroVoc: http://www.destin.be/askosi/concept.jsp?concept=c_10289&graf=en#Graf
• WindMusic: http://www.windmusic.org/askosi/concept.jsp?concept=sujet_21942&graf=fr