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JIT Serializer Plugin and JIT Endpoint

Knurg edited this page May 31, 2011 · 1 revision

We recently were looking for some good method to visualize triples for our project system (WissKI). The GraphGear plugin was a nice start, however we wanted something more flexible. We decided to use the Javascript Infovis Tookit (JIT) as it has many different ways of displaying graphs and - even more important - it supports dynamic loading of nodes via ajax during runtime. The result was the JIT Serializer Plugin for ARC2 which can convert triple constructs to JIT-compatible json.

For demonstration use we also supply a small software using ARC2, JIT and JQuery constructing a Jit-enhanced SPARQL-endpoint. You can use this with your ARC2 triple store! The JITEndpoint

How do I get this running?

Step 1:

Download ARC2, set up a triple store and fill it with data.

Step 2:

Download the plugin branch of knurg/arc2 here. It consists of the ARC2_JITSerializerPlugin.php and the four files needed for the endpoint: jitendpoint.php, jitendpoint.js, screen.css and wisski_logo.png.

Step 3:

Download JIT and JQuery and place them in the same directory as the endpoint files.

Step 4:

Change line 4 to the path of ARC2. If the files stay in the plugins folder, this should be '../ARC2.php'. Change the $config parameters to fit to the database of your triple store.

Step 5:

Start your browser and go to the jitendpoint.php. Have fun! :)

  • Requirements: ARC2 (2008-08-04 or later), Javascript Infovis Toolkit (2.0.1, can be downloaded here), JQuery (1.6.1, can be downloaded here)
  • Author: Mark Fichtner, Georg Hohmann