Hi Bruce, Instead of pointing your new installation of TBC at your old workspace, did you try creating a new workspace and importing the existing project(s)? (Import -> General -> Existing Projects into Workspace, and leave "Copy projects into workspace" checked). Re-entry of the information is certainly not necessary.
If I had to set up several data entry people to enter data that was going into RDF models, I would write an SWP web-based application to make it easier for them instead of training them in TBC, but for someone already comfortable with navigating around TBC, I find it simple to do data entry with it, as long as the relevant properties have an rdfs:domain of the class that they go with so that when I create a new instance of that class those properties show up on its form. I click the "Create instance" icon on the Instances view, fill out the form, and repeat. Of course, the Instances view has a simple interface for editing and deleting existing instances as well. To keep my instance data separate from the model that defines their classes and properties, I define the classes and properties in one model (e.g. a ttl file), then create a new one for the instances, import the model into that, and add the instance data in that new one. Bob On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Bruce Whealton <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello, > I am having a problem with my installation of TBC. I had > reinstalled TBC on a system that I had upgraded to a new OS. I had TBC > point to the old workspace area. I had imported the resume/cv ontology and > there were several classes and properties defined for that. For some > reason, I am not seeing those namespaces. I selected the option to group > by namespace/prefix and the prefixes that I defined cv, does not exist on > the Classes view on the left. > I then tried to create the project from scratch. I created a > project for Resume data. Then I copied an RDF/XML file on top of the > project folder. When I opened that file, I got an error saying more than > one ontology is defined for the project. That shouldn't be a problem as > most data sets have more than one ontology that they use. > What should I do? Recreate the project and re-enter the > information? > I was told in a previous post that TBC is not intended for data > entry. Initially I had chosen TBC over Protege because I thought that > Protege semantic web tool was only for defining ontologies and not for > working with instance data - even though, technically, this can be defined > in the same file as that is a feature of RDF which doesn't require that the > schema be defined separately. > If that is the case, can someone recommend approaches to > entering and storing data that is largely described by one main ontology? > This might be a bit off topic but I have Fuseki installed on the server > which supports SPARQL 1.1 and was discussed in Bob DuCharme's book > "Learning SPARQL." So, I could use SPARQL to enter new data from a form or > set of forms, which describe the data that makes up a person's resume/cv. > Then I want to save it as an RDF file and display the data using microcode ( > schema.org) and RDFa (not sure if this can be done on the same web page. > And the saved data will go into a named graph in the triple store, where > the details about a person's Resume/CV are all stored in one named graph - > the named graph is used to connect the various classes and properties that > make up a person's CV. That is my plan for relating cv:Skill instances to > a cv:Person. > As for the TBC, I will try to recreate the project again from > scratch and re-enter the data, as I don't know what else to do. Again, as > someone mentioned, TBC isn't meant for data entry, I believe, so I welcome > suggestions for how to handle this. > Thanks, > Bruce > > -- > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Group "TopBraid Suite Users", the topics of which include Enterprise > Vocabulary Network (EVN), TopBraid Composer, TopBraid Live, > TopBraid Ensemble, SPARQLMotion, SPARQL Web Pages and SPIN. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/topbraid-users?hl=en > > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Group "TopBraid Suite Users", the topics of which include Enterprise Vocabulary Network (EVN), TopBraid Composer, TopBraid Live, TopBraid Ensemble, SPARQLMotion, SPARQL Web Pages and SPIN. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/topbraid-users?hl=en
