What about the Semantic Search functionality? This looks similar to what I am interested in, but when I try to do a search I get "No search criteria specified" I really expect that this would return a result for the search I specified. Chris
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Shawn Bowers<sbowers at ucdavis.edu> wrote: > Hi Chris, > > Most of the semantic annotation code is now a bit old (3-4 yrs), and > was a prototype. Prior to this version we actually had an approach > based on a SPARQL implementation, however, it was decided that Kepler > should adopt an "object manager" approach, which stores actors and > actor metadata (including semantic annotations of actors) using MoML > and within a relational (in-memory) db. So, SPARQL wouldn't work for > this, unless we went to an RDF approach for representing annotations, > metadata, etc. Another problem with SPARQL (I think this is what you > meant) at least from my experience is that it is more focussed on > querying resources and their properties, and less useful for querying > over class definitions. The latter requires a reasoner (like Pellet, > Fact++, etc.). Finding actors based on their semantic types is all > about matching class definitions, and not about searching for class > instances. > > Anyway, we are currently in the process of revamping the annotation > interfaces to make it easier and hopefully more obvious to folks that > actors (and their ports) can be tagged (e.g., a draft plan for this is > here: https://kepler-project.org/developers/incubation/GUI/kepler-tagging). > So far, zero Kepler actors have their ports annotated. But perhaps > with some UI changes more actors will be annotated, etc. ?We are also > making changes so that basic types of ontology creation and editing > are exposed and available from within Kepler. Again, this might make > the annotation capabilities more usable. > > If you would like to help with any of this (designing and/or implement > ui's, designing apis, suggesting features, architecture, technology's, > etc.) that would be awesome! > > Shawn > > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Chris Weed<chrisweed at gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> I have a few questions about the semantic annotation functionality. >> I noticed in the semantic search browser it displays the properties, >> but I wasn't sure if it used that for doing searches. >> >> Also, I was looking through the code for performing the semantic actor >> suggestion, >> and it looks like it uses a hand-coded matching algorithm instead of a SQARQL >> based inference engine. Would it make sense to update this functionality >> which would allow more sophisticated searches with properties. >> >> Chris >> _______________________________________________ >> Kepler-users mailing list >> Kepler-users at kepler-project.org >> http://mercury.nceas.ucsb.edu/kepler/mailman/listinfo/kepler-users >> >
