Introduction
This is a simple test drive for you to try VocBench by using the embedded sesame component for creating a very simple project. We will use a small thesaurus developed in FAO as a test data sample. So follow strictly the "e.g." suggestions if you want to get this it working with the provide example.
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) )
- 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 a list of available triple Stores: 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)
- select “in memory/persistent” or "native store/persistent"
- 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
Start playing around
Project is ready, some sample data has been loaded...time to play around now! things like editing new concepts, lexicalizations etc..
We will be adding more docs soon. In the meanwhile, you can follow those videos reported here: http://aims.fao.org/tools/vocbench-2/support-material
Appendix: 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)