Linked Data Visualization Tools

Abstract

In recent years, the amount of Semantic data on the Web has increased enormously. Since the initiation of the Linked Open Data project, the number of datasets added to the Web of Data has increased multifold. Although, the concept of Web of Data has been increasing in popularity, ease-to-use interfaces, to access and make sense of actual data are still far and few to accomplish the Semantic Web Vision to its full potential. Especially the non-experts in Semantic Web technologies are not benefitting from the value of Linked Data as promised by the Data providers. In this survey paper, we discuss the major prerequisites and challenges that need to be addressed by the modern Linked Data Visualization tools. In the pretext of these challenges, we present how the State-of-the-art Visualization tools from Web of Data literature, attempt to handle them. Finally, we survey and present the features of different systems developed by Semantic Web community in the context of Linked Open Data.