> On 20 May 2020, at 06:20, Rob Atkinson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> the classes and instances layout is a reasonable way to navigate the 
> instances by selecting classes of interest
>   
> It only displays classes You could bring in Instances panel, it would then 
> show instances for a selected class, but it is not the most convenient view 
> for working with instances. 
> 
> it is the default that shows up

What do you mean by this? The default layout for Data Graphs has the Search 
panel on the left and the Form panel on the right.

> Does the search perhaps rely on generating shapes for every class and 
> property?

The search panel is indeed shapes-based. It will show subclasses of the root 
class. They need to be typed as *both* Class and as NodeShape. New classes 
created in the EDG ontology editor have these types, but if your ontology came 
in via a different route it may not have them.

If the Form panel works for you as you expect, then you already have the 
required shapes for your properties.

Typically, the shapes would be in the Ontology that the Data Graph is based on.

When working with ontologies from a third party source, it is often reasonable 
to have a graph with the original ontology (perhaps kept as a static file in 
the workspace) and an EDG ontology that includes the original and adds shape 
statements to make it work with EDG.

> I am having hard time understanding what you are talking about. Editors work 
> over the entire graph closure. All information is shown - whether it is in 
> the currently opened asset collection or in any of the imported graphs.
> 
> nope - it may be the design but if so its a bug -if i copy the same data into 
> the graph it shows, if i owl:import the data it doesnt show. 

There is a “gear menu” in the top right corner of the Instances pane. It has a 
checkbox for “Return local results only”. Do you have that checked perchance?

> there are good reasons not to munge everything into a single graph.

Agreed.

Richard

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