Knowledge Graph Visualization: Challenges, Framework, and Implementation

Abstract

A knowledge graph (KG) is a rich resource representing real-world facts. Visualizing a knowledge graph helps humans gain a deep understanding of the facts, leading to new insights and concepts. However, the massive and complex nature of knowledge graphs has brought many longstanding challenges, especially to attract non-expert users. This paper discusses these challenges; we turned them into a generic knowledge-graph visualization framework, namely KGViz, consisting of four dimensions: modularity, intuitive user interface, performance, and access control. Our implementation of KGViz is a high-capacity, extendable, and scalable KG visualizer, which we designed to promotes community contributions.