From Ontology Design to Deployment

Semantic Application Development with TopBraid

Holger Knublauch

holger@topquadrant.comhttp://www.topquadrant.com

About TopQuadrant

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A Web Application (1)

A Web Application (2)

Semantic Technology

How to get started

• Semantic Technology may be disruptive

• Software architecture

• Modeling and programming languages

• Development processes

• Database formats

• Infrastructure

• Tool support

• How to convince the management ?!

Key Message

• Semantic Technology supports a new type of model-driven development

More modeling, Less programming

Semantic Technology Benefits

• Open-world, property-centric architecture– Link anything with anything else– Extensible models (inheritance, etc)

• Self-describing data– Use design models at run-time– Generic building blocks– Generic tools

• More efficient development processes

• Flexibility, built for change and reuse

Collect and integrate existing data sources

Design domain models (classes & properties)

Create and maintain content (instances)

Prototype and test behavior

Build user interface

Deploy, optimize and administrate

Development Activities

TopBraid Suite

TopBraid Live Components

Semantic Technology

TopBraid Composer

User Interface Overview

Create Classes

Datatype Properties

Object Properties

Class Diagrams

Create (Test) Instances (1)

Create (Test) Instances (2)

Geography View (1)

Geography View (2)

Ontology Imports

Import Spreadsheets (1)

Import Spreadsheets (2)

Import Spreadsheets (3)

Import Spreadsheets (4)

Import Spreadsheets (5)

Some Steps later…

Final Ontology

Exploring Graphs

Configuring Tables

Configuring Forms (1)

Configuring Forms (2)

TopBraid Ensemble (1)

TopBraid Ensemble (2)

Ensemble and Composer

Reports and Charts (1)

Reports and Charts (2)

Calendar

Calendar Ontology

Customizing Calendar (1)

Customizing Calendar (2)

Generic UI Components

• Forms (domains, ranges, restrictions)

• Geography (geo:long/lat, mapmodel)

• Visual Graphs

• Calendar (calendar:priority)

• SPARQL table / Search form

• BIRT Reports

• Domain-specific widgets (address)

• Other reusable building blocks

TopBraid Suite

TopBraid Composer

• Semantic application development tool• Ontology modeling (RDF, OWL, Rules)• Visualization• Inferencing• Refactoring• Import of other (legacy) data formats• Scalable database back-ends• Based on Eclipse; open architecture

TopBraid Live

• Client/Server platform

• Reusable AJAX components– Map, Calendar, …– Complete BIRT report generator– Forms, Trees, SPARQL viewer, …

• Access to various databases

• Import of GRRDL, RDFa, RSS/Atom

• Seamlessly integrated

TopBraid Ensemble

• Multi-user web application

• Collaborative information management

• Rich AJAX user interface

• Dynamic ontology-driven forms

• Access rights control

• Change tracking

• Search capabilities

• Extensible with other UI widgets