Vocabulary Explorer and Suggestion Server

[Alasdair J G Gray]

Hi,

I have just updated the Vocabulary Explorer. The main advantage of the  
new version is that you can include periods in a search term, i.e. you  
can now search for 'em.ir' and find the corresponding concept in the  
UCD. There have also been various back of house tidying which has  
improved the performance and ranking of search answers.

I have also made an XML-RPC interface to the service available. This  
has a very limited subset of the functionality of the Vocabulary  
Explorer, but you can perform the same sort of search and retrieve the  
preferred labels for a specific concept. Full details of the service  
are available from [1].

Unfortunately, there will be very limited support for the services in  
the foreseeable future since this is my last day working on the  
Explicator project. However, hopefully Norman will be able to provide  
some level of support and when the new RA starts then perhaps the  
functionality will be extended.

I'd just like to say farewell to you all. It has been great meeting  
you all at the various InterOps and working with you on the  
vocabularies document. I am now off to an equally soggy Manchester to  
work on wireless sensor networks. Perhaps our paths will cross again  
some day.

Cheers,

Alasdair

[1] http://explicator.dcs.gla.ac.uk/Vocabularies/suggestionServer.shtml

Dr Alasdair J G Gray
Research Associate
Computing Science Department
University of Glasgow
Tel: (0141) 330 6292
agray at dcs.gla.ac.uk
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~agray/
http://explicator.dcs.gla.ac.uk/

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