Bienvenue

Since January 2011 I'm a PhD Student on Collaborative Visualization of Semantic Web Data at the AVIZ group. I'm supervised by Jean-Daniel Fekete and Emmanuel Pietriga.

Work-in-Progress

We're planning a first release of Ontotrix for the end of March. You're invited to join the open source development.

Projects

Facettice

Facettice is an novel approach to visualize and support faceted browsing by interactive concept lattice representations. The Facet Lattice Visualization allows analysis and exploration of facets and the Big Smart Lattice tracks and encourages the browsing process.
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Ontotrix

Ontotrix visualizes OWL ontologies using a hybrid technique of node link diagrames and adjacency matrices. Different techniques exist to group nodes to clusters and visualize them as adjacencey matrices.
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Interests

- Information Visualization/Design/Aestetics
- Semantic Web
- Faceted Browsing
- Concept Lattices & Formal Concept Analysis
- Multi touch & Gesture Interaction
- Open Gouvernment Data
- Typography

Publications

Posters

Benjamin. Bach, G. Legostaev, Emmanuel Pietriga, Visualizing Populated Ontologies with OntoTrix, Proceedings of the ISWC 2010 Posters & Demonstrations Track: Collected Abstracts, pages 85-88, November 2010, Shanghai, China

Thesis

Benjamin Bach, Facettice: Integrating Faceted Navigation and Conceptn Lattices for Visual Data Exploration, Diploma Thesis, University of Technology Dresden, 2010