1. Visualising Ontology Schemas (Models) and RDF data (Individuals / Content)
Questions for Pundit users
Question groups: 1. Wittgenstein Incubator scholars
2. DM2E data providers
3. MPIWG scholars
4. Georg-Eckert-Institut
5. BWG
Question form: 2-3 Pre-Interviews (Alois Pichler, ...)
(Online) Questionnaire
Aim of the questionaire: Figure out how RDF data should be visualised in Pundit.
Mir fehlt noch ein einleitender Text, der die Hintergründe der Umfrage und das Ziel erklärt. + Datenschutz,
etc.
Übersicht über Aufbau der Umfrage zu Beginn:
I. Background............................................................................................................................................................................1
II. Daily Routine......................................................................................................................................................................3
a. Ontology Creation........................................................................................................................................................3
b. Working with existing ontologies...........................................................................................................................5
III. Ontology and RDF visualization.................................................................................................................................6
b. Visualization tools........................................................................................................................................................8
IV. Pundit.................................................................................................................................................................................10
I. Background
Contact with ontologies or RDF data; Questions should help to group test persons into expert and non-experts
1 Which role does RDF or ontologies play in your daily work?
Text field
2 Are you familiar with different RDF representations?
Multiple choice
RDF XML
Turtle
N3
Other: Text field
3 Do you know how to read RDF data?
a Yes
If yes, please specify:
Multiple choice
RDF XML
Turtle
N3
Other: Text field
b No
4 Can you write RDF?
a Yes

2. ● If yes, please specify:
Multiple choice
RDF XML
Turtle
N3
Other: Text field
b No
Ich würde die Frage nach der Kompetenz zusammenfassen:
Please describe your competences:
Never heard of it – heard of it – would recognize it – understand and know how to write it
RDF in general
XML Format
Turtle
N3
Other (Text field)
5 Do you build ontologies?
● Yes → go on with part II a
● No → go on with question 6
6 Do you work with existing ontologies?
● Yes → go on with part II b
● No → go on with part III
7 Any other remarks related to the background section.
Text field

3. II. Daily Routine
a. Ontology Creation
1 On which ontology do you work?
Text field
2 What is the domain of the ontology?
Multiple choice
Life Science
Media
Libraries or Publications
People
Medicine
(Digital) Humanities
Geographic
Computer and Web science
User generated content
Cross-domain
Other: Text field
3 What is the task of the ontology?
Text field
4 How would you describe the build-up?
● Object-centred
● Event-centred
● Other: Text field
● Don’t know
5 How large is the ontology?
If possible, state approx. numbers of classes and properties.
Text fields
● Classes:
● Properties:
● Overall:
● Additional remark:
6 How many persons are involved in the ontology creation?
● 1
● 2-5
● 5-20
● 20-50
● More than 50
Vllt könnte man die Fragen 1 bis 6 kürzer fassen, in dem man eine Art Formular ausfüllen lässt:
Please describe your ontology!
Name: ______
Task: _______
Domain: (drop-down)
Build-up: (drop-down)
Size: …
Persons involved: ___

4. 7 Do you use specific tools for creating ontologies or RDF data?
a Which tool do you use?
Multiple choice
Protégé
TopBraid Composer
Text Editor
Other: Text field
b Which type of editor do you prefer?
Multiple choice
Text
WYSIWYG
Visual Network Representation
Other: Text field
c Are the tools dependent on other software (like OS)?
● Yes, on the following software: Text field
● No
d Are the tools free, open source, bound to (commercial) licenses?
Multiple choice
Free
Open Source
Commercial
Don’t know
Other license Text field
e What features of the tools you use are most helpful in you work?
Multiple choice
Simple creation of resources
Build-in properties
Interface of the tool
Graph visualization
Other: Text field
f Do you have suggestions to improve the tool?
Text field
g Is graph interaction text-based or using visualizations?
Text field
8 Any other remarks related to ontology creation.
Text field
9 Do you create ontologies from scratch or do you reuse existing vocabularies?
● Creation of new ontology without using others
→ Please go on with part III.
● Reuse of existing vocabularies.
→ Please go on with part II b.

5. II. Daily Routine
b. Working with existing ontologies
1 Which existing ontology/ies do you use?
Text field
2 What is the domain of the used ontology?
Multiple choice
Life Science
Media
Libraries or Publications
People
Medicine
(Digital) Humanities
Geographic
Computer and Web science
User generated content
Cross-domain
Other: Text field
3 Which are your main criteria for the selection of reusable ontologies?
Multiple choice
The ontology must be well-known
The ontology should be broadly used by others
The resources must be described in a similar way as it is done in our ontology
The ontology must already be interlinked with other ontologies
I do not have special criteria
Other: Text field
4 Do you use a visualization tools for the description of the classes and properties?
● Yes → If yes, please write down which
● No → Else please go on with part III
5 Are you satisfied with the functionality of the used visualization tools?
a Which functions are particularly important for you?
Text field
b Which features do you not use on a regular basis?
Text field
c What would you change, if you could, to improve your work with ontologies?
Text field
d Other remarks
Text field
6 Any other remarks related to ontology reuse.

6. III. Ontology and RDF visualization
a. Visualization in general
1 How would you describe “RDF” to a stranger (in a few words)?
Text field
2 How would you describe “ontology” to a stranger (in a few words)?
Text field
3 How would you visualize ontologies?
a Do you make a difference between ontology elements like properties or classes?
Multiple choice
● Yes
○ Please specify: Text field
● No
b Do you make use of different visualization elements?
Multiple choice
Circles for nodes
different node shapes
Arrows
Lines
Other: Text field
None
c Do you prefer a detailed view or a complete overview or do you require both?
● Detailed view
● Complete overview
● Both
● Don’t know
● None
d Do you make a difference between the ontology schema / model without content and the
individuals / actual data?
Text field
e Would you like to have alternate views or be able to make subgraph selections?
● Alternate views
○ Please specify: Text field
● Subgraph selections
○ Please specify: Text field
● Don’t know
● No
f Please try to describe your ideal visualization idea for ontologies.
Text field
4 How would you visualize RDF data?
a Which structure would you use?
Multiple choice
Triple
Graph structure
Other: Text field

7. b Do you make a difference between resources and literals?
● Yes
● No
● Don’t know
c Do you make use of different visualization elements?
Multiple choice
Circles
other node shapes
Arrows
Lines
Other: Text field
None
d Would you like to have alternate views or be able to make subgraph selections?
● Alternate views
○ Please specify: Text field
● Subgraph selections
○ Please specify: Text field
● Don’t know
● No
e Please try to describe your ideal visualization idea for RDF data / triples.
Text field
5 Would your idea of an ideal visualization differ for data that you create or have created and data that
you will use or extract?
● Yes, in the following way: Text field
● Maybe
● Not at all
● I don’t know
6 Which of the following RDF or ontology representations do you think would be the most suitable?
Multiple Choice
● [Images of different existing representations]
7 Any other remarks related to this section.
Text field

8. III. Ontology and RDF visualization
b. Visualization tools
1 Do you know any visualization tools for ontologies or RDF data?
Multiple Choice
Protegé
LODlive
LODvisualization
Swiki Notes
RelFinder
Other: Text field
2 Would you recommend any of these?
● Yes
○ Why? Text field
● No
○ Why not? Text field
● Yes, if the following functions would change or be added:
○ Text field
3 How would you improve the tools you are working with?
Text field
4 Where/How are they integrated in your daily work?
Text field
5 Which tools are you currently using?
Multiple Choice
Protegé
LODlive
LODvisualization
Swiki Notes
RelFinder
Other: Text field
6 Which features are you missing in current visualization tools?
Text field
7 What can currently not be visualized?
Text field
8 Should visualization be combined with RDF creation or manipulation functions?
● Yes
○ Where? Text field
○ How? Text field
● No
● Don’t know
9 Would you rather see only the schema/model or the structure together with the content
(individuals)?
● Only a schema view

9. ● Schema and content
● Don’t know
10 Should e.g. image annotation be visualized in a different manner than text annotations? What about
triples and subgraphs based on selections?
a If yes, how?
11 Do you want to create and visualize statistics of annotations?
a Which tools should be responsible?
Text field
b What should be shown?
Text field
12 Any other remarks related to visualization tools.
Text field

10. IV. Pundit
In this part of the questionnaire, we would like you to reflect on your work with Pundit.
1 How often do you use Pundit for your work?
● Daily
● Weekly
● Monthly
● Less often
2 Which features do you use?
Multiple Choice
Text annotation
Triple generator
Additional metadata
Other
3 From your perspective: How could Pundit be improved?
4 Would an RDF or ontology visualization make the use of Pundit easier?
● Yes
● Maybe
● Don’t know
● No
5 What should be visualized?
Multiple Choice
Annotations / triples
Ontologies
Other data
6 How would you integrate the visualization in Pundit?
a Annotation visualization
[Images with examples or text field]
b Ontology visualization
[Images with examples or text field]
7 Do you share your annotations notebooks with other people?
● Yes
● No
8 What kind of visualization would you like to see for your annotation?
Multiple Choice
● [Answers related to visualization section]
9 What kind of visualization would you like to see for the used ontologies?
Multiple Choice

11. ● [Answers related to visualization section]
10 Do you know other annotations tools with visualization features?
Text field
11 Any other remarks related to Pundit.
Text field