Are there any tools to visualize a RDF graph? (please include a screenshot)

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I'm looking for a tool that will render a RDF graph in a reasonably useful graphic format. The primary purpose of the graphic format being inclusion into a PowerPoint slide or printing on a large plotter for management review.

I am currently using TopBraid Composer which does a reasonably well at visualizing a single entity but doesn't seem to have a clear way of visualizing the entire graph (as a whole).

Anyone know of any good solutions to this problem?

TopBraid Composer Graph view screenshot

List of lists of tools: https://stackoverflow.com/a/43605137/7879193 — Stanislav Kralin, May 01 '18 at 18:41

score 17 · Answer 1 · answered May 28 '14 at 08:34

Gephi was already mentioned, but I'll incode screenshots and a short description here.

Gephi can not just visualize graphs but also supports analyzing, layouting and further importing and exporting. There is a Semantic Web Import Extension that allows you to directly query (via SPARQL) or import RDF data. https://wiki.gephi.org/index.php/SemanticWebImport (You can install it directly within the program at Plugins.

Gephi Screenshot

There's a JavaScript Graph Visualisation Library which worked quiet nice for me: http://sigmajs.org/ It works well together with Gephi since you can Export your graph from there and import the file into SigmaJS. That way you can export your graph to an interactive web site. Example: http://fannon.de/p/smw/vis/George_Orwell_Platz_30.html

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An important mention would be D3.js which has already dozends of force graph examples. But it doesn't support RDF directly, so the data has to be converted first.

A nice one is this: http://nylen.tv/d3-process-map/graph.php?dataset=les-mis

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score 16 · Answer 2 · edited Feb 18 '19 at 20:28

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RDF Gravity is an RDF visualisation tool.

Here's a screenshot:
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answered Sep 19 '08 at 07:46

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Website is currently down. Screenshot https://web.archive.org/web/20161121211502im_/http://semweb.salzburgresearch.at/apps/rdf-gravity/html/owl_ontology_1.jpg and download https://web.archive.org/web/20161208093431/http://semweb.salzburgresearch.at:80/apps/rdf-gravity/download.html – RADXack Feb 21 '18 at 17:24

score 9 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 15 '13 at 18:50

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I was looking for one too and i found this : https://gephi.org/ Pretty sure it works with rdf.

answered Feb 15 '13 at 18:50

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Gephi has a Semantic Web Extension which lets you query or import RDF directly. It also has a lot of graph layouting and analyzing capabilities. This makes Gephi my current favorite. – Fannon May 28 '14 at 08:21
It only allows for .rdf and .rdfs files. Not .ttl or .nq. Moreover, https:// endpoint don't seem supported. – Richard Oct 27 '17 at 08:31
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Version 0.10 does not support SemanticWebExtension plugin. Old versions like does. – Peter Feb 20 '23 at 13:41

C.Neal · Answer 4 · 2014-06-03T12:49:03.480

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-Cytoscape http://www.cytoscape.org/ works well with large scale graphs and you can create a static pdf or image.

-I also found this very interesting http://d3js.org/

It's not specific to RDF graphs, but in the examples there seems to be some cool functionality where the users could have a large degree of interaction with the data. It does however require a fair amount of JS programming knowledge.

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Good Lux · Answer 5 · 2018-12-03T20:06:45.900

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WebVOWL is a great choice for visualizing ontologies. http://vowl.visualdataweb.org/webvowl.html

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answered Apr 30 '18 at 14:43

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This one is open source and great for who want to use such tools in browser without installation onto their desktop operating system. – 千木郷 Feb 10 '19 at 20:57
Does WebVOWL work well with very large ontologies? – tommy.carstensen Aug 25 '22 at 13:58
WebVOWL is very good for visualising ontologies (aka schemas), but not knowledge graphs, since it does not visualise instances. – Stratos K May 23 '23 at 14:05

score 8 · Answer 6 · edited Feb 17 '19 at 20:49

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Protégé. Activate Tools > Tabs > Jambalaya.

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answered Sep 15 '08 at 20:49

Thanks gizmo, but I did specifically request screen shots. You could have gotten some reputation by posting a link to protege and a screenshot. It's less for me than it is for others that are coming to view this post in the future. – Eric Schoonover Sep 20 '08 at 03:01
Maybe this is what you are looking for: http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~i385t-sw/archive/protege/protege-jambalaya-02.png – Lena Schimmel Jan 29 '09 at 14:43

score 5 · Answer 7 · answered Jun 17 '18 at 07:03

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RDFShape which is also based on Graphviz can be useful to visualize small RDF graphs for presentations. It allows both SVG and PNG output formats. An example visualization can be this one

answered Jun 17 '18 at 07:03

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Thanks, unfortunately it does not seem very well maintained or explained. For your example visualisation, I'm getting `Error response from https://api.rdfshape.weso.es/api/data/info: Error: Network Error`. – alelom Jan 24 '22 at 11:56
You may be right that in the past it was not well maintained, however, we have been working in the last months in a new version and now it is more stable. You can try again and we will appreciate any feedback or suggestion. – Labra Mar 15 '22 at 15:08

remi.chateauneu · Answer 8 · 2016-08-28T08:52:34.857

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The Perl utility rdfdot, based on Graphviz, and this library, might help:

http://metacpan.org/pod/RDF::Trine::Exporter::GraphViz

https://github.com/nichtich/RDF-Trine-Exporter-GraphViz

Graphviz is able to handle thousands of nodes, and therefore might suit the scale of your problem..

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answered Nov 17 '13 at 10:51

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This can no longer be installed on Linux/Ubuntu. Pre-installation test fails: `t/serialize.t : Failed test 'edges' ... $got->[0] = 'Z -> node1 [label="skos:narrower",' ... $expected->[0] = 'Z -> node1 [label="skos:narrower", style=bold];' Looks like you failed 1 test of 4.` – knb May 25 '22 at 08:57
Indeed this CPAN module has not been updated for many years, but that specific testsuite failure [seems just harmless whitespace changes](https://github.com/nichtich/RDF-Trine-Exporter-GraphViz/issues/3) - try suppress testsuite errors while installing the module, e.g. with `cpanm --force ...` – Jonas Jun 08 '22 at 09:52

score 2 · Answer 9 · answered Jun 02 '17 at 10:15

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Commandline with rapper and graphviz:

$ rapper --input ntriples $fname.nt --output dot > $fname.dot $ dot -Tpng $fname.dot > $fname.png

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rapper documentation: https://librdf.org/raptor/rapper.html – knb May 25 '22 at 08:47

Are there any tools to visualize a RDF graph? (please include a screenshot)

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