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However, recent research focuses mostly on detecting changes between ontology versions, overloading end-users with hundreds or even thousands of changes between ontology versions, making it impossible to explore this evolution. To this direction, in this paper, we present EvoRDF, a novel framework for exploring ontology evolution using provenance queries. Our approach uses a high-level language of changes and effectively answers queries about\n                    <jats:italic>when<\/jats:italic>\n                    a specific resource was introduced and\n                    <jats:italic>how<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u2014by which change operations. Even more,\n                    <jats:italic>why queries<\/jats:italic>\n                    can identify the sequence of changes that led to the creation of a specific resource in the latest ontology version or track the evolution of a specific resource from a past ontology version. The evaluation performed shows the feasibility of our solution and the great advantages gained.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1017\/s0269888918000140","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,10,2]],"date-time":"2018-10-02T01:16:04Z","timestamp":1538442964000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["EvoRDF: evolving the exploration of ontology evolution"],"prefix":"10.48130","volume":"33","author":[{"given":"Haridimos","family":"Kondylakis","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Nikos","family":"Papadakis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"27968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,8,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"S0269888918000140_ref5","unstructured":"Brooke J. 1996. SUS - a quick and dirty usability scale. In Usability Evaluation in Industry, Jordan, P. W., Thomas, B., McClelland, I. L. & Weerdmeester, B. (eds). 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