It has been replaced by save archive -Aaron
On Jul 10, 2009, at 8:05 AM, Shawn Bowers <sbowers at ucdavis.edu> wrote: > Hi Chris, > > It looks like this is happening (possibly) because of changes to the > StringParameter hierarchy, which now throw NPEs if no named object and > name is given to the constructor. The semantic search functionality > was written a while back (circa 2005), and not really used other than > a prototype/demonstration. It could use revamping. > > I think I might have fixed it though. However, I cannot easily test > this since the "Save in Library" functionality was removed, which > would allow modified actors to be saved in the library, and then > easily searched. Typically, I would add sem types to ports and then > save them to the library. This would then allow me to search for > actors using this dialog or using the "suggest compatible components" > dialog. > > I've CC'd Aaron Schultz (a Kepler developer at NCEAS) who might know > why this was removed, and whether similar functionality was added (I > can't find it if it was). When I bring back the "Save in Library" > (via uiContextMappings configs) I get exceptions for building KAR > files ... > > [run] Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" > java.lang.NullPointerException > [run] at > org.kepler.kar.gui.SaveInLibraryDialog.determineKarFile > (SaveInLibraryDialog.java:255) > [run] at > org.kepler.kar.gui.SaveInLibraryDialog._saveCommand > (SaveInLibraryDialog.java:371) > [run] at > org.kepler.kar.gui.SaveInLibraryDialog.access$100 > (SaveInLibraryDialog.java:98) > [run] at > org.kepler.kar.gui.SaveInLibraryDialog$1.actionPerformed > (SaveInLibraryDialog.java:646) > [run] at > javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java: > 1882) > > > Shawn > > > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Chris Weed<chrisweed at gmail.com> > wrote: >> 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 >>>> >>> >>
