Chart corpora, which comprise data visualizations and their semantic labels, are crucial for advancing visualization research. However, the labels in most existing corpora are high-level (e.g., chart types), hindering their utility for broader applications in the era of AI. In this paper, we contribute VisAnatomy, a corpus containing 942 real-world SVG charts produced by over 50 tools, encompassing 40 chart types and featuring structural and stylistic design variations. Each chart is augmented with multi-level fine-grained labels on its semantic components, including each graphical element's type, role, and position, hierarchical groupings of elements, group layouts, and visual encodings. In total, VisAnatomy provides labels for more than 383k graphical elements. We demonstrate the richness of the semantic labels by comparing VisAnatomy with existing corpora. We illustrate its usefulness through four applications: semantic role inference for SVG elements, chart semantic decomposition, chart type classification, and content navigation for accessibility. Finally, we discuss research opportunities to further improve VisAnatomy.

Various data visualization applications such as reverse engineering and interactive authoring require a vocabulary that describes the structure of visualization scenes and the procedure to manipulate them. A few scene abstractions have been proposed, but they are restricted to specific applications for a limited set of visualization types. A unified and expressive model of data visualization scenes for different applications has been missing. To fill this gap, we present Manipulable Semantic Components (MSC), a computational representation of data visualization scenes, to support applications in scene understanding and augmentation. MSC consists of two parts: a unified object model describing the structure of a visualization scene in terms of semantic components, and a set of operations to generate and modify the scene components. We demonstrate the benefits of MSC in three applications: visualization authoring, visualization deconstruction and reuse, and animation specification.