Bruce; There are a few readily available examples you can use to demonstrate building applications using TopBraid. The first is to start TBC-ME and go to http://localhost:808/tbl. Choose the Default Application and open your data. The default application provides a fully editable view of the data. This application can be customized - see the Downloads and More Information sidebars at http://www.topquadrant.com/products/TB_Ensemble.html for more information.
However, this is for localhost viewing only, meaning that to host a server for other users requires TopBraid Live. An example custom application, with server-side scripting that also integrates SPARQL Web Pages (SWP) is also readily available at http://localhost:808/evn. This is the Enterprise Vocabulary Network (EVN). It is a product in its own right that has been built entirely using TopBraid tools - meaning that the primary technology used is RDF, RDFS, OWL, SPIN, and SPARQL with some TQ-specific technologies, SPARQLMotion and SWP, that are based on SPARQL. EVN also adds a workflow concepts for managing changes to the data. EVN may be a tool worth looking into for your application. In terms of running examples, there are a number in use at various organizations. But the data is often of a sensitive nature so it's always difficult for us to provide links. We can also show you some example presentations - contact sa...@topquadrant.com. If anyone on the forum would like to share URLs to their work, we'd appreciate that. You could try data.gov for the data you are looking for. -- Scott On Oct 23, 12:32 pm, Bruce Whealton <brucewheal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > I can envision a use for the full package TBME with the > server for an application that would be of use to a group of > organizations in our community. Some of the organizations were > working on a 10 year plan to end homelessness but they meet regularly > to discuss how to allocate block grant funds that are made available > to different organizations and for different purposes. They have > needs for sharing of data that they collect to be able to document > their activities - that is the activities of various agencies/ > organizations that receive these funds and/or provide services that > benefit the needy, homeless, or other vulnerable groups. > I think a semantic web application is good because each > organization has some of its own unique needs for using the data, as > well as collecting different data and each agency will have unique > reporting that they do. This can be a problem for traditional > relational databases in that either each organization will be forced > to use just one database or database model/schema or they will have to > duplicate things by having what they collect and what needs to be > shared. > I had started with something simple, of just creating a > Resource Directory using Semantic MediaWiki but then I saw what TBCME > can do and thought of the things I was mentioning above. Perhaps, > they can benefit from licensing/buying TBCME. I could use some ideas > on how to present this to an organization, with examples of > applications that exist, UI features, etc. > I don't know if anything has been done for any kind of > similar target market or group, ever. It might be good also if there > was data that could be used that shows statistics and such on > homelessness, poverty, mental illness, etc. by geographic area. > Thanks in advance for any ideas, > Bruce -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Group "TopBraid Suite Users", the topics of which include TopBraid Composer, TopBraid Live, TopBraid Ensemble, SPARQLMotion and SPIN. To post to this group, send email to topbraid-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to topbraid-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/topbraid-users?hl=en
