NCBO Web Services and the Development of Semantic Applications

Content

Semantically Aware applications - who and how people are incorporating ontology web services in their software
NCBO BioPortal
NCBO REST Web services
- Ontology Web services - Search, Traverse, Download
- View Extraction Web service - Subset
- Notes Web service - Propose Terms, Comment
- Mapping Web services - Create, Upload, Download
- Widgets - Tree view, Auto-complete, Graph view
- Annotation - Ontology Term recognition
- Data Access - Fetch ontology-indexed data
BioPortal SPARQL Endpoint - Access Ontologies via SPARQL

BioPortal API Key - get your API Key by registering for an account on BioPortal
Computer with Internet connection
Software editor of your choice
Sample code will be demonstrated in both Java and Perl https://bmir-gforge.stanford.edu/gf/project/client_examples/scmsvn/?action=browse&path=%2Ftrunk%2F
Nice to Have
- Firefox HTTP Resource Test Plugin
- Firefox API Key Add-on
- Some experience with parsing XML
  - Java - Sax/DOM
  - Perl - LibXML

Visit the Sample Code Cookbook to see ontology-based uses cases and solutions using the NCBO Web services
Add your own use case!

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