[Swoop] Annotea support!!!!

[Aditya Kalyanpur]

Also, I particularly like how its shaped up as an "Annotea mail
client" useful for discussing ontologies by exchanging "mails" or
annotations about ontological entities. Hence the next obvious step -
"Attachments" for ontology change sets. The latest version just has a
button representing it - still have to code this, but when its done
you could attach a change set to an annotation, which someone can
download and "apply"..cool huh:)

Cheers,
Aditya 


On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 22:37:01 -0400, Bijan Parsia <bparsia at isr.umd.edu> wrote:
> On Oct 30, 2004, at 5:50 PM, Aditya Kalyanpur wrote:
> 
> > The Annotea support is getting better by the minute:)
> 
> Indeed. Bravo!
> 
> > Latest features in the SVN now:
> >
> > 1. Option to highlight all annotated entities in class/property
> > tree..this must be manually done by clicking on the appropriate button
> > (added to Annotea pane toolbar) since doing it dynamically will make
> > Swoop too slow..since each time it needs to connect to the servers to
> > check for all annotated entities. We can definitely improve this by
> > doing it in a separate thread (when user is idle), caching results or
> > maybe even storing this information on the server side to speed things
> > up..but atleast the manual option is there now. All Annotea(ted)
> > entities in the class/property tree have a superscript of 'A' (Jtree
> > nodes support html!)
> 
> caching loaded annotations would be nice. That is, i would like my
> getting the highlights to mean that I don't have to update each entity.
> 
> > 2. Context fix option - really useful while understanding and
> > following annotations. For instance, Bijan has provided a great
> > explanation for the inconsistency of the Koala class in the Protege
> > Koala.owl ontology (check it out). Now, firstly, I made the hyperlinks
> > in the html pane active - so clicking on an entity there navigates to
> > the corresponding OWL Object in Swoop..but morover, you can check the
> > "context fix" option and stay in the same annotation view while
> > browsing the class/property definitions.
> 
> *Very* nice, though "content fix" isn't obvious. I've seen a pushpin
> and a lock used for that sort of thing. Or we could pop the annotation
> out into a separate window. It's tricky.
> 
> > 3. I definitely like the idea of matching words in the annotated html
> > pane with corresponding class/properties (SMORE style)..but its tricky
> > to implement. As a useful first step, I was thinking of providing the
> > option in Ekit while typing itself. i.e. say while typing your
> > annotation, your at word 'Koala', you press a shortcut key - say
> > 'Ctrl-L' , Swoop automatically completes the hyperlink for you. Its
> > much less of a check to do than for each word..
> 
> Yes. I'd be happy with that. Happier, maybe, than with an every check.
> 
> > For those who missed earlier updates, there's an option to Add,
> > Delete, Reply-to annotations on entities or ontologies (though the
> > reply is Mail-style and not the true Annotea standard..will change
> > later)..with additional features for Auto-retrieve annotations..Koala
> > is being annotated heavily for test purposes..feel free to annotate
> > anything..no authentication required and its fairly fast..
> 
> Indeed. Very cool.
> 
> > Anyway, now to implement the change sets..
> 
> Yay!
> 
> I think I'd rather have a command key for doing manual update than for
> toggling autoupdate.
> 
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Bijan.
> 
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Aditya Kalyanpur
PhD Student, Dept. of Computer Science
GRA, MINDSWAP Research Group,
University of Maryland, College Park
Web page: http://www.mindswap.org/~aditkal