Interoperability with other semantic databases
Objectives
(eg cases, literature citations) - so they only need to be entered once
- Compare properties
- Keyword to extract from SDSS (forest?), Forsys (all? Or SDSS?)
- Try to export from Forsys (where cases can be entered directly) and import into SDS
- see Steps #2 below
Steps / Options
(from Steve Paplanus, Redlands, Nov 4 2011)
1) what would be the best next steps to take as for moving the FORSYS Wiki to be based on an ontology?
a. Create an external vocabulary that will map the existing data to the structure that you want your ontology to be. (http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Import_vocabulary)
b. Export existing Wiki Pages to rdf using the Special:ExportRDF function. This will create owl DL syntax file in an rdf serializable format (e.g. *.owl, *n3, etc.), and serve as the basis of the data for an ontology editor to edit (such as Protégé or TopBraidComposer -- we use the latter, and they do have a free version).
c. When you finish creating the ontology, use the Ontology import functionality (http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Ontology_import) to maintain your wiki user interface.
2) what could be done to integrate work done on Spatial Decision Support Knowledge Portal with the FORSYS Wiki?
a. To get the SDS ontology data to you, we could export our ontology with rdf triples to the owl-dl format. We would then need to create an external vocabulary file. This could be generated on our side, or we can modify the vocabulary file created by FORSYS in step A of question 1. FORSYS would then import the vocabulary file that we created/modified into the Semantic Mediawiki site. Once that is done, FORYSYS would import our ontology data in rdf format into their ontology.
b. Another method to give access to you access to our data is to use a web service. You will use the semantic wiki’s extension "External Data". We will expose a URL that would access a web service we will create that would return a set of values (either from a sparql query in query string or direct request to get information since access is by url), and return the triples that the Semantic Wiki could use to display our information.
c. For us to use FORSYS's data, you would perform steps A and B in question 1, and send us your ontology data.
d. Another method to access your data for you to create a web service that exposes your underlying rdf from the database, and we will use your web service to access your data.
