Visualizing the Semantic Web: XML-Based Internet and Information Visualization

The Web is evolving from HTML to revolutionary techniques for content and structural modeling, including XML (eXtensible Markup Language), RDF (Resource Definition Framework) and Topic Maps. Compared to HTML, the content of XML documents is enriched with semantic and structural features, completely separated from its visual appearance. This allows a Web document to be displayed in any desired form. Visualizing the Semantic Web presents the state-of-the-art research in this area and focuses on key topics such as the design of XML-based interfaces for e-commerce and information retrieval.