Semantic-based Modeling Framework for Information Systems

Keywords: Ontologies, OWL, Semantic annotation, Semantic-based Modelling

Affiliation: Hans-Georg Fill, University of Fribourg

SeMFIS Tutorials

In order to support self-learning of the SeMFIS functionalities and tools we provide some video tutorials here.

Tutorials for Users of the SeMFIS Windows Installation Package:

  • SeMFIS User-Tutorial 1: Explicating semantic information with term models (Flash-Video swf)
  • SeMFIS User-Tutorial 2: Using AQL query semantic annotations in SeMFIS (swf, youtube)

 

Tutorials for Developers of Applications Using SeMFIS:

  • SeMFIS Developer-Tutorial 1: Creating a simple semantic annotation (swf, youtube)
  • SeMFIS Developer-Tutorial 2: Accessing SeMFIS using the web service interface (swf, youtube) - for further details please see below
  • SeMFIS Developer-Tutorial 3: Extending SeMFIS with classes, relationclasses, and model types (swf, youtube) - resulting ABL file incl. the mindmap model type (abl)
  • SeMFIS Developer-Tutorial 4: Adding classes of new model types to the model reference class in the semantic annotation model type (swf, youtube) - resulting ABL file incl. the mindmap model type and the extended model reference class (abl)

SeMFIS Tutorial: Web Service Interface via SOAP

As ADOxx provides a great infrastructure for accessing it over the web, these functionalities have been made available also in the SeMFIS toolkit that is based on ADOxx 1.5. I have prepared a short tutorial that illustrates how SOAP calls can be made to SeMFIS.

Note: This tutorial is to demonstrate the web service access using SOAP in an easy manner and without requiring further APIs. For Java applications accessing the web service interface, it is recommended to use the Axis stubs as provided on the ADOxx.org website.

Tutorial-Video: swf, youtube

I used the following applications:

In addition the following SOAP stub is used:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<soapenv:Body>
<ns1:execute soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
xmlns:ns1="urn:AdoWS">
<script xsi:type="xsd:string">

SETG result:()
</script>
<resultVar xsi:type="xsd:string">result</resultVar>
</ns1:execute>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

 

And the following ADOscript:

# Sample ADOscript File
CC "Core" GET_MODEL_ID modelname:"Semantic Annotation Model" 
  modeltype:"Semantic Annotation Model"
CC "Core" LOAD_MODEL modelid:(modelid)
CC "Core" debug GET_ALL_OBJS_OF_CLASSNAME modelid:(modelid)
 classname:"Model reference"
CC "Core" DISCARD_MODEL modelid:(modelid)