This section provides an overview of the various basic manipulations required to edit an ontology in the VIVO-Studio.
It will also be a pretext to become familiar with the VIVO vocabulary structure.
The TopBraid Composer interface of VIVO-Studio
Description
| No | View Name | For Use |
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| 1 | Topbraid Perspective | The perspective is selected to display all the views associated with it and is used to edit knowledge graphs. |
| 2 | Explorer View | This view is used to navigate in the project directory structure. In particular, it is used to select the file that will be edited. |
| 3 | View Panel | In Topbraid, there is a collection of views that are useful for ontology engineering, e.g.: text search, editing and executing a SPARQL query etc. |
| 4 | View: Class taxonomy | This view presents the taxonomy of the classes in a tree view of the KG which is being edited. |
| 5 | View: Property Taxonomy | This view presents the taxonomy of properties in a KG tree view that is being edited. |
| 6 | View: Instances | This view shows the list of individuals belonging to the selected class (see point 4). |
| 7 | View: Form | This view is useful for editing the resource (class, property, instance) selected in the knowledge graph. In the image, the form presents the attributes and their value associated with the resource indv:n7537 designating the individual "Professeur Tournesol" |
Other help
The TopBraid application has its own support content.
| Description | View |
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Activating HelpScroll down the help menu and select "Help Contents" |
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Help TopBraid ComposerThe help is divided into several chapters and sections covering the main topics concerning the use of the translation environment |
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Exercices
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| 1 | Open the graph of the professeur tournesol1) Selecting the TopBraid perspective 2) Open the "Project Explorer" 3) With the right mouse button, open the file with the TopBraid editor. |
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| 2 | Analyzing the graph1) All individuals are on owl:Thing 2) The resource indv:n7537 is typed, but the types are not semantized.s |
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| 3 | Classify the resources in the graph by importing Vivo vocabulary1) Select the imports view 2) Locate Vivo's vocabulary 3) Drag and drop into the Imports view |
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| 4 | Locating resources1) Identifying the affiliation of the resource indv:n7537 to the vivo:FacultyMember class 2) Find the class with the search wizard 3) Localize the class in the class tree which indicates that the class contains 6 individuals 4) The view shows the 6 individuals belonging to the class vivo:FacultyMember |
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| 5 | Launch the execution of a SPARQL query in the graph1) Choosing the SPARQL view 2) Writing the application 3) Initiating the execution of the request 4) Analyzing the result presented in triplet form |
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