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Plone Conference 2010
Bristol
Plone is so semantic,
isn't it?
Jens W. Klein <jk@kleinundpartner.at>
2010-10-28

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Store Knowledge?
● Humans have different kinds of knowledge:
tacit and explicit
● only possible to transform
explict knowlegde (brain) =>
reduce to information =>
store information in ICT-system
● creation of documents (html-form, doc,
powerpoint, pdf, html, audio, video, CAD/CAM,
and hundreds more)
● sometimes collaborative

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IN PLONE...
● create documents (HTML),
● upload or place links to documents.
● Excellent collaboration
– sharing,
– versioning,
– workflow.

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Problem:
● stupid ICT-Systems: they dont 'know' anything
about the document.
● we need to provide algorythms to fetch
information from the ones and zeros.
● Algorythms are as good as stored information is
● Fulltext search: Cut into words, create index.
● Organize documents in folders, subfolder, give
them meaningful names.

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IN PLONE...
● portal_catalog
● full text index and search
● hirarchical folderish structure

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BUT ...
● this is not enough. We want to know the author,
intellectual property information, dates, ...
● So we need additional information.
● One solution: Store additional information with
the document: Metadata.
● Dublin Core (DC) Metadata, Learning Objects
Metadata (LOM), ..

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BUT ... lazy Humans!
*sigh*
● metadata need to be created/added by editors.
● Humans are lazy,
● so must of the time
– NO METADATA ENTERED
● Helpers:
– Extrensic motivation (pay, required fields, ...)
– Automatic adding out of context: i.e. username
as creator, dates of creation or publishing.

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IN PLONE...
● Dublin-Core Metadata on any document.
● Some fields are filled automatically,
– i.e.author, date of creation and publication, with
some limits also language.
● Others need to be entered manually.
● Using add-on products utilizing schemaextender
other metadata-fields can be added, i.e. the
Dublin Core Terms extension.
● Exposed in HTML-header (if switched on)

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Semantics (from Greek sēmantikós)
is the study of meaning.
It typically focuses on the
relation between signifiers,
such as words, phrases, signs and
symbols, and what they stand for.
Wikipedia

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so no semantics so far
in Plone?
● we have hierarchie
– A is parent of B => relation
● we have metadata
– John Smith is author of B
– B was published 2010-10-10 10:10:10
● we have general references
– B is related to C

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Limitations in Plone
● If the word „Paris“ is in the text we dont know
its a city „Paris is a city“.
● We can search for the string „Paris“, but not for
articles about cities in france. „Paris is part of
France“
● No way to connect with articles outside Plone.
● Naked Plone only exposes a tiny set of its
limited semantic information.

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RDF helps
Resource Description
Framework
● all information is broke down into triples of
– subject => Paris
– predicate => is part of
– object => France
● triple is an element of a graph
● multiple triples forms complex RDF graphs
● RDF is family of W3C specifications to work with
theses graphs.

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IN PLONE?
● No RDF dialect out of the box
● eea.rdfmarshaller (add-on) builds
– RDF/XML from archetypes content, hierarchie and
relations
– RDF-Schemas from FTI
● no triple storage
● no possibility to query
● no auto-enhancement, i.e. finding geo-names

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Introducing IKS
● IKS (interactive knowledge stack, ICT-231527) is
– a Semantic-based Open Source Platform for
Small to Medium CMS Providers
– raise the semantic capability of European
software houses to develop intelligent content
management solutions for their customers.
– an Integrated Project (IP) of the European Union's
7th Framework Programme: ICT – Call 3. From
2009-01-01 to 2012-12-31 (48 months).
– 13 participants from 7 countries involved, and
the EC contribution is 6.57 million Euros (total
cost: €8.55m).
–
http://[www|wiki].iks-project.org

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Introducing FISE
● FISE, a major IKS outcome, is
– an Open Source RESTful Semantic Engine
software component extracing meaning of
electronic documents to organize it as
partially structured knowledge.
– semantic middleware with pluggable enhancers,
– triple store,
– sparql endpoint (query mechanism)
– ... more to come
– alpha, java, easy to integrate, nice devs behind.

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FISE
current enhancers
● categorize documents,
● suggest meaningful tags from a controlled
taxonomy and assert there relative importance,
● find related documents in the local database or
on the web,
● extract and recognize mentions of known
entities,
● detect yet unknown entities of the same afore
mentioned types to enrich the knowledge base,
● more and more to come.

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not IKS, but related:
Aloha-Editor
● WYSIWIG editor using Contenteditable
(xHTML5)
● very fast (loading, init, multiple instances)
● pluggable - possible to create semantic
plugins for i.e. microformats.
● OpenSource (GPL, initially made by Gentics)
http://www.aloha-editor.com/

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YES. We need it in Plone.
But: Out of my scope
Who will integrate it?

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back to FISE:
planned Python/ Plone
Integration
Klein & Partner KG got an IKS Early Adopter
(funded)
● Create a generic Python API to communicate
with FISE over its Restful API
● Integrate with Plone, „index“ into FISE.
● Create a Plone Portlet (UI) showing some
enhancements.
● Present the results to the Plone Community.
Spread the word.

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FISE Integration
work done so far
● buildout for FISE http://github.com/collective/fise-buildout
● fise.client http://github.com/collective/fise.client
● started to spread the word
● research done:
– RDFlib
– SuRF
– restful client APIs
– SPARQL and Python

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fise.client
Initialize:
>>> from fise.client import FISE
>>> fise = FISE('http://localhost:8080/')
Use the engines:
>>> somedoc = u"This is an example text."
>>> fise.engines(somedoc)
<xml...>
>>> fise.engines(somedoc,
format='rdfjson')
jsonresponse
Use the store, first store content
(only plain text is accepted for now):
>>> id = 'test123'
>>> fise.store.content[id] = payload
Next get the text back:
>>> fise.store.content[id]
u"This is an example text."
Then get the metadata:
>>> fise.store.metadata(id)
<RDF>
And FISE special feature: Get an HTML
page about the content:
>>> fise.store.page(id)
<HTML>

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Work todo
● support passing SPARQL queries to FISE (easy)
● write fise.plone and index content in FISE.
● write some visualization (i.e. viewlet/ portlet) to
show enhancement found
● document all this
● sprint on FISE in Bristol
● organize a semantic sprint in Innsbruck

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