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    1

    Putting Topic Maps to


    REST

    David Damen, Maria Patrickson

    Putting Topic Maps to REST September 30th 2010


    2

    What did we want?


    • Remote access:
    – Manipulate topic maps
    – Manipulate topics
    – Search

    • RESTful

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    3

    What is out there?


    • TMRAP:
    – Part of Ontopia
    – Limited in functionality
    – Not exactly RESTful

    • Topincs:
    – Better in functionality, but not entirely

    • TMIP:
    – Built on top of path expression Topic Maps query language
    – Complicated

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    4

    Resources Representations

    REST

    Self-descriptive
    HATEOAS
    messages

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    5

    HATEOAS
    • Hypermedia As The Engine Of Application State

    – RESTful webapp should be modelled as a state machine

    – Client transitions from state to state

    – Representations contain valid state transitions

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    6

    HATEOAS – online book store

    Add payment
    • Book 1 information • Shipping
    • Book 2 • Credit card method
    • Book 3 • Address • Gift options
    Confirm
    Fill basket
    order

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    7

    REST

    Topic
    Maps
    engine Tropics

    Community
    support

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    Tropics – resources
    • Topic Maps

    • Topics

    • Associations

    • Query results

    IRIs as item identifiers


    IRIs as occurrences in a navigation ontology

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    Tropics – identifying resources

    • /topics/earth

    • /topics/earth?ti=/topicmaps/astronomy

    • /topics/earth?ti=/groups/space

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    Tropics – representations
    • As a Topic Map:
    – XTM 2.0/2.1
    – CXTM
    – JTM

    • Other formats can support most (but not all) resources:


    – CTM
    – LTM

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    Tropics – messages
    • HTTP:
    – GET
    – PUT
    – POST
    – DELETE

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    Tropics - HATEOAS
    • Application state in a Topic Maps engine?

    • What is a Topic Maps engine is used for?

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    Tropics - HATEOAS
    • Information extraction:
    – Querying
    – Navigation

    • Application state for a Topic Maps engine:


    – The piece of information retrieved

    • State transition for a Topic Maps engine client:


    – Traversal from one piece of information to the next
    – Querying
    – Administrative functions

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    14

    Knowledge navigation – example


    Celestial
    Body

    Planet Sattelite

    Planet Star

    Mars

    ATLAS
    Mars

    Earth

    Earth picture
    Sun

    weight weight

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    Knowledge navigation – intra Topic Map navigation


    Celestial
    Body

    Planet Sattelite

    Planet Star

    Mars

    ATLAS
    Mars

    Earth

    Earth picture
    Sun

    weight weight

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    Knowledge navigation – extra Topic Map navigation


    Celestial
    Body

    Planet Sattelite

    Planet Star

    Mars

    ATLAS
    Mars

    Earth

    Earth picture
    Sun

    weight weight

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    Knowledge navigation – merged Topic Map navigation


    Celestial Earth
    Body
    weight
    picture Planet Sattelite

    Planet Star

    Mars

    ATLAS
    Mars

    Earth

    Earth picture
    Sun

    weight weight

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    Tropics – navigation ontology

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    Tropics – example – Earth Topic


    Create
    Topic
    Parameter

    Planet

    Link
    query

    Earth
    alias
    query
    weight Search the alias
    q
    engine
    data
    type Xsd:string
    uri
    http://.../search

    method
    GET

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    Tropics – Is HATEOAS worth it?

    • Open question…

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    Tropics – proposed URI space


    • /topicmaps/{id}
    • /groups/{id}
    • /topics/{id}
    • /associations/{id}
    • /search

    • Query/filter parameters
    • Versioning

    => More detailed info in the API definition at http://j.mp/tropics-api

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    Tropics – current status


    • /topicmaps – GET
    • /topicmaps/{id} – GET, PUT
    • /groups/all – GET
    • /topics – GET (only ‘has-type’)
    • /topics/{id} - GET
    • /search - GET (supports ‘tolog’)

    • (Will be) part of Ontopia Sandbox


    • Open for participation!

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    Acknowledgement
    • Tropics:
    • David Damen
    • Maria Patriksson

    This work has received funding from the European Commission through the
    Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under the Space Theme, under
    grant agreement n◦218815 within the ULISSE Project (USOCs KnowLedge
    Integration and Dissemination for Space Science Experimentation).

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    Questions?

    Thank you for your time!

    Putting Topic Maps to REST September 30th 2010

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