Introduction

Create a new project    

• Login with the administrator privilege (Only administrator are allowed to delete the project)
• Once logged in, the list of currently available project will be displayed.
• On the top right corner, click [+] button to add the project.
• A window will be prompted to input the following parameters:
  • Project name (e.g. LandAndWater)
  • Project description (A project describing concepts about Land and Water Management)
  • Project type (Type of the project (OWL, SKOS, SKOS-XL). Only SKOS-XL is available at the moment)
  • Base URI: (e.g. http://www.fao.org/landandwater/  it is important to keep the ending "/" )
  • Semantic Turkey Server URL
    • Connection URL to Semantic Turkey Server (ST Server)
    • It is assumed that ST Server has been started, if not start the server
    • URL:(<serverprotocol>://<serverip>:<serverport>/<servletpath>)
    • e.g:(http://127.0.0.1:1979/semantic_turkey/resources/stserver/STServer)
• Click [Connect] button to test the connection to ST Server.
  • If failed, will prompt service failed message. Check if ST Server is running and connection URL is correct.
  • In case of successful connection, it will prompt list of triple Store: OntologyManagerFactorySesame2Impl

• After triple store selection, it will prompt for available triple storage mode as follows
  • In memory/persistent
  • In memory/no persist
  • Native store/persistent
  • Remote access
  now, to create a plain Sesame2 project (no OWLIM)

1. 1. select “in memory/persistent” or "native store/persistent"
   2. You can leave the other parameter values (1000, true, true) as they are

Manage the SKOS Concept Scheme

• After login, you will be directed to concept module.
• If no concept scheme is selected by default, you will be prompted to go to Scheme module to select concept scheme.
• Click on the [Schemes] link on the main menu bar, to go to Schemes module.
• List of available concept schemes will be displayed.
• If none of them is available, click [+] button on top right corner of list box to add new scheme.
• Add scheme window will be prompted to add following parameters:
  • Scheme URI (e.g. http://www.fao.org/landandwater no ending slash "/" here )
  • Scheme label (e.g. "core scheme for the land and water thesaurus")
  • Scheme language (e.g. "en")
• After clicking [Add] button, newly added scheme will be displayed in the list.
• To select the scheme, click on the check box.
  
  Now that a scheme has been created, you can start editing concepts. Anyway, let's start from a pre-build thesaurus, by loading its data

Loading pre-existing data

• By first, download this file: https://bitbucket.org/art-uniroma2/vocbench/downloads/LandAndWater_20131001.nt into your file system
• To load the RDF from the above file, click on the [Load data] link in the main menu bar.
• Input following parameter
  • Base URI: base uri of the data to be imported. (e.g. http://www.fao.org/landandwater/ )
  • RDF file: browser data file to be imported. (point to the location where you downloaded the LandAndWater file)
• Click [Import button] to import data.

Creating a new User

We suppose here that you are both the user and administrator of vocbench

To add a new user in VocBench follow these steps:

• Go to http://localhost:8080/vocbench-2.0/index.html and click on "Create an account" under the login form on the right of the page
• Input all the required information. It is better, even if it is not mandatory, to specify the "Languages you wish to manage" and the "Ontology you wish to manage"
• At this point the account is not yet allowed to log on.
  • As a user, you can wait for the confirmation email that a request has been sent to the administrator
  • As administrator, you can wait for the email and follow its instructions

If you do not receive any email (maybe a misplaced configuration) you need to manually enable the account by modifying the admin DB (see FAQ 1)