maiana - the social topic maps explorer
DESCRIPTION
In short, Maiana is the first social Topic Maps browser to share, mix and explore data interlinked. The platform is based on the Ruby on Rails web technology running with JRuby and uses the Topic Maps engine RTM. RTM manages the connections to several other Topic Maps engines like Ontopia, MaJorToM and Hatana.TRANSCRIPT
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Maiana
Lutz Maicher, Uta Schulze Topic Maps Lab at the University of Leipzig
maicher|uta.schulze@[email protected]‐leipzig.de
Einführung in Topic Maps
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Topic Maps as data sources
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Maiana is a plaJorm for structured data
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Manage topic maps
Browse topic maps
Query and validate topic maps
“Maiana”, Lutz Maicher, Uta Schulze (maicher|uta.schulze@[email protected]‐leipzig.de)
Einführung in Topic Maps
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Maiana is social
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Discuss resources and themes
Observe data sources
Follow users
“Maiana”, Lutz Maicher, Uta Schulze (maicher|uta.schulze@[email protected]‐leipzig.de)
Einführung in Topic Maps
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Maiana is social
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All semantic data sources are private
Data sources can be shared
Data sources can be made public
“Maiana”, Lutz Maicher, Uta Schulze (maicher|uta.schulze@[email protected]‐leipzig.de)
Einführung in Topic Maps
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Maiana API With the Maiana API the plaJorm can be used from any privileged third party system.
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Einführung in Topic Maps
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Seman,c Search Search results are generically faceted.
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Einführung in Topic Maps
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Everything which behaves as topic map is a topic map
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Einführung in Topic Maps
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Live Integra,on – every data source can be used
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Relational databases, XML files or Excel files can be integrated into Maiana. Virtual.
“Maiana”, Lutz Maicher, Uta Schulze (maicher|uta.schulze@[email protected]‐leipzig.de)
Einführung in Topic Maps
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Flexible fusion of data sources
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Each data source in Maiana can be added into dossiers which are called Containers.
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This Container then acts as joined data source. For every fact, the Origin is known.
“Maiana”, Lutz Maicher, Uta Schulze (maicher|uta.schulze@[email protected]‐leipzig.de)
Flexible fusion of data sources
Einführung in Topic Maps
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Maiana is member of the Web of Data
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Einführung in Topic Maps
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Maiana and Linked Data
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Each topic in Maiana exists as Linked Data Set. Each map in Maiana provides a SPARQL Endpoint.
“Maiana”, Lutz Maicher, Uta Schulze (maicher|uta.schulze@[email protected]‐leipzig.de)
Einführung in Topic Maps
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Duality of Topic Maps – Networks and Streams of facts
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Observing every subject
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Each data source is a stream of structured, semantic facts. And in the same time a network of facts. For each subject the updates can be observed.
“Maiana”, Lutz Maicher, Uta Schulze (maicher|uta.schulze@[email protected]‐leipzig.de)
Einführung in Topic Maps
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Observing every subject
Einführung in Topic Maps
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How to get started with Maiana • Maiana cannot be downloaded, but ...
• You can register at hcp://maiana.topicmapslab.de
– You get your API key automa@cally
• We set up proper Maiana instances for larger projects on request.
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Thank you for your acen@on
Please report ideas and issues.
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