Fresnel Forms Protégé plugin

Fresnel Forms is a plugin for the Protégé ontology editor that helps create Fresnel-defined interfaces, and exports them as semantic wiki's. It generates default Fresnel interface code for the ontology currently loaded in Protégé. This plugin then provide a GUI for editing Fresnel-defined interfaces. Finally, Fresnel Forms exports Fresnel-defined interfaces as semantic wikis. These wikis provide both browsing of existing data and form-based annotation interfaces for adding new data.

Fresnel Forms can be downloaded and installed from https://github.com/ABI-Team-30/Fresnel-Forms/releases

We have applied Fresnel Forms to the entire DBpedia ontology to generate Fresnel style and a corresponding wiki interface for it. The files involved are:

• http://downloads.dbpedia.org/2014/dbpedia_2014.owl.bz2 : The full DBpedia ontology loaded into Fresnel Forms.
• File:Dbp complete.n3.zip: The default Fresnel code that Fresnel Forms generates from this ontology.
• http://is.cs.ou.nl/OWF/files/FresnelForms/dbp_complete.xml.zip: The wiki interface that Fresnel Forms generates from this default Fresnel code.

Installation

1. Download and install the prerequisites:
   1. MediaWiki
   2. Semantic MediaWiki
   3. Semantic Forms
   4. ParserFunctions
   5. Character Escapes
   6. Protégé 5.0.0-beta-15 or see Building Protege 5
2. Add to your wiki's LocalSettings.php file the following line:
   $wgAllowImageTag=true;
   
3. Copy the content of Default_CSS_Fresnel_Forms and paste into MediaWiki:Common.css.
4. Copy and paste the Fresnel Forms .jar file in your Protégé /plugins directory.
5. Restart Protégé.
6. In case Protégé does not show the Fresnel Forms tab, select the plug-in in Protégé/Window/Tabs.
7. Done.

Compatibility

Fresnel Forms has been tested with the following software versions:

Fresnel Forms compatibility table

Product	Version
Protégé Desktop (or Git master branch)	5.0.0-beta-15 or 5.0.0-beta-16-SNAPSHOT from Git (tested up to commit dcddbf6e815aff1cffd56de414bdd0d7512fd901)
MediaWiki	1.19.14+dfsg-1
PHP	5.5.9-1ubuntu4.6 (apache2handler)
MySQL	5.5.41-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
Semantic Forms	2.8
Semantic MediaWiki	2.0
Character Escapes	0.9.1
Parser Functions	1.4.1

These were the software versions which were up-to date for Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS at 2015-02-22.

Tips & Tricks

• Entering certain HTML symbols in the delimiter field http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Formatting may cause special:import on the MediaWiki to crash. Instead of e.g.   enter &<bold>amp;</bold>nbsp;
• In a form, for properties (not of type page) with multiple values, separate values by a comma. Separate URL's for an image property by a space, then a comma.
• Show the superclass in the gui to prevent problems with inheriting attributes.