gnowsys-studio 0.5.dev (experimental)

A collaborative blogspace for constructing and publishing semantic knowledge networks and ontologies

Features

The application is devided into two sub-apps. Gstudio and Objectapp. The former includes classes for organizing the network or constructing an ontology. The latter includes classes for holding the instances of object-types, process-types and system-types.

Objectapp Components
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Online Collaborative Platform

The application is built as a collaborative on line platform with the following features.

Network Navigation using SVG graphs

Network Navigation using SVG graphs
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• neighbourhood graphs and concept graphs

Other Semantic Web features

• data in RDF format
• rdf feed to a triple store
• sparql endpoint

Features to be implemented

• export and import of standard knowledge representation languages: CL, OWL, XTM etc.

Features adopted from Django-Blog-Zinnia

The following features are adopted from django-blog-zinnia code base with a lot of gratitude. Thanks to an excellent codebase of django-blog-zinnia, which taught us best software development practices as well! After reviewing each feature for the purpose of semantic blogging, we will retain or extend the following features.

The features listed here are not thourougly tested. There is a likelyhood of misbehavior.

• Comments
• Sitemaps
• Archives views
• Related entries
• Private entries
• RSS or Atom Feeds
• Tags
• Advanced search engine
• Prepublication and expiration
• Editing in MarkDown, Textile or reStructuredText
• Widgets (Popular entries, Similar entries, ...)
• Spam protection with Akismet or TypePad
• Admin dashboard
• MetaWeblog API, xmlrpc
• Ping Directories
• Ping External links
• Bit.ly support
• Twitter support
• Gravatar support
• Django-CMS plugins
• Collaborative work
• Tags autocompletion
• Entry model extendable
• Pingback/Trackback support
• Blogger conversion utility
• WordPress conversion utility
• WYMeditor, TinyMCE and MarkItUp support
• Ready to use and extendables templates
• Windows Live Writer compatibility

Examples

A sandbox site will give you a preview of the application. Visit http://sbox.gnowledge.org/

Project Page

The project management is done from Savannah: https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnowsys/

Mailing list

Join this list if you are intersted in using or contributing as a hacker.

http://gnowledge.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnowsys-dev

Dependencies

Make sure to install these packages prior to installation :

• Python 2.x >= 2.5
• Django >= 1.3
• django-mptt >= 0.4.2
• django-tagging >= 0.3.1
• BeautifulSoup >= 3.2.0
• django-xmlrpc >= 0.1.3
• pyparsing >= 1.5.5
• `django-reversion`_ >= 1.5.1
• `django-grappelli`_ >= 2.3.4
• `django-ratings`_ >= 0.3.6
• `rdflib`_ >= 3.0.0
• `django-registration`_ >=0.8
• `django-4store`_ >= 0.3
• `HTTP4Store`_ >= 0.2
• `html5lib`_ >= 0.95
• `PIL`_ >= 1.1.7
• `diff-match-patch`_ >= 20120106

Note that all the dependencies will be resolved if you install gnowsys-studio with :program:`pip` or :program:`easy_install`, excepting Django.

Getting the code

.. highlight:: console

For the latest version of Gstudio use :program:`easy_install`:

$ easy_install gnowsys-studio

or use :program:`pip`:

$ pip install gnowsys-studio

You could also retrieve the last sources from https://github.com/gnowgi/django-gstudio. Clone the repository using :program:`git` and run the installation script:

$ git clone git://github.com/gnowgi/gnowsys-studio.git
$ cd gnowsys-studio
$ python setup.py install

or more easily via :program:`pip`:

$ pip install -e git://github.com/gnowgi/gnowsys-studio.git#egg=gnowsys-studio

Applications

.. highlight:: python

Then register :mod:`gstudio`, objectapp, and these following applications in the :setting:`INSTALLED_APPS` section of your project's settings.

INSTALLED_APPS = (

'django.contrib.auth', 'django.contrib.sitemaps', 'django.contrib.comments', 'django.contrib.contenttypes', 'django.contrib.sessions', 'django.contrib.messages', 'django.contrib.sites', 'mptt', 'reversion', 'tagging', 'django_xmlrpc', 'grappelli.dashboard', 'grappelli', 'gstudio', 'objectapp', 'django.contrib.admin', 'django.contrib.admindocs', 'django.contrib.staticfiles', 'djangoratings', 'registration', 'graphviz', 'demo', 'fourstore', 'HTTP4Store', 'html5lib', # Uncomment the south entry to activate south for database migrations # Please do install south before uncommenting # command: sudo pip install south # 'south', )

Template Context Processors

Add these following :setting:`template context processors<TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS>` if not already present.

TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
  'django.core.context_processors.auth',
  'django.core.context_processors.i18n',
  'django.core.context_processors.request',
  'django.core.context_processors.media',
  'django.core.context_processors.static',
  'gstudio.context_processors.version',) # Optional

URLs

Add the following lines to your project's urls.py in order to display the site.

Note that the default gnowsys-studio URLset is provided for convenient usage, but you can customize your URLs if you want. Here's how:

urlpatterns = patterns(

'', (r'^$', 'django.views.generic.simple.redirect_to',

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{'url': '/home/'}),

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url(r'^home/', home_view), url(r'^more/',more_view), url(r'^nodetypes/', include('gstudio.urls')), url(r'^objects/', include('objectapp.urls')), url(r'^comments/', include('django.contrib.comments.urls')), #URL for XMLRPC url(r'^xmlrpc/$','django_xmlrpc.views.handle_xmlrpc'), url(r'^i18n/', include('django.conf.urls.i18n')), url(r'^admin/doc/', include('django.contrib.admindocs.urls')), url(r'^admin/gstudio/', include('gstudio.urls.ajaxurls')), url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)), url(r'^objects/admin/', include(admin.site.urls)), url(r'^nodetypes/admin/', include(admin.site.urls)), url(r'^grappelli/', include('grappelli.urls')), url(r'^accounts/register/$', register, {'backend': 'gstudio.regbackend.MyBackend','form_class': UserRegistrationForm}, name='registration_register'),

url(r'^accounts/', include('registration.urls')),

url(r'^$', 'django.views.generic.simple.redirect_to',

{ 'template': 'index.html' }, 'index'),

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)

Static Files

Since the version 1.3 of Django, gnowsys-studio uses the :mod:`django.contrib.staticfiles` application to serve the static files needed. Please refer to https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/static-files/ for more informations about serving static files.

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