SIS - Graphical Analysis Interface User`s Manual
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1. Superclases Tree ThesaurusExpression V Figure 26 Example of a graph before split November 2000 v2 3 36 ICS FORTH SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual Thesaurus Management System AATGuideTerm N 01 ThesaurusConcept 7 M HierarchyTerm o 01 Term 01 4ATThesaurusNotion AATThesaurusConcept M ThesaurusCone M AATThesaurusNation M ThesaurusNotion AATThesaurusExpression lt aa y M ThesaurusExpression 01ThesaurusNotion EnglishTerm BH 01 ThesaurusExpression AATTerm O1HierarchyTerm Figure 27 Example of a graph due to split control with level 2 November 2000 v2 3 37 ICS FORTH SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual 7 5 Queries By pressing the Queries button a pulldown menu which depends entirely on the model and can be configured by the user as described in SIS Query Interpreter An Interactive Program to use API Functions appears on the screen see Figure 28 Thesaurus Management System OF Xx File Edit View Tree Views Queries Retrieval Tools Window Query Target Hierarchical Report General Queries Text View Thesauri Facets gt gt gt Hierarchies gt Terms b Consistency Checking gt Figure 28 Queries menu for the SIS model Whenever you execute a query from this menu its result is displayed in textual mode on the text window Also an answer set is produced as result of the2. 7 4 Tree Views The Tree Views menu option supports graphical queries The options depend entirely on the model and can be configured by the user as described in SIS Query Interpreter An Interactive Program to use API Functions All queries in this menu require a query target The two more recently selected queries of this menu are kept by a caching mechanism for fast toggle The cache is invalidated only by executing a query through the Exec button This is useful when the SIS base is updated and we wish to inform the SIS User Interface for the update November 2000 v2 3 30 ICS FORTH SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual Thesaurus Management System OF Xx File Edit Yiew s Queries Retrieval Tools Window Star View Query Target E Classification Tree Text View Thesaurus Specific Tree Queries gt Superclases Tree Broader Term Tree Narrower Term Tree Term Position in Hierarchy Related Term Tree Equivalent Terms Tree Narrower Equivalent Terms Tree Narrower Synonym Terms Tree Figure 21 The Tree Views menu 7 4 1 Star View By selecting StarView from the menu a graphical query is executed which displays the query target as a central node The superclasses and subclasses of the central object are shown top right and bottom right respectively The classes of which the central node is an instance of are shown top left while if it has instances a box with the label INSTANCES
3. Find which offers the same facility described in section 4 3 and its scope is limited within the objects referenced in the Many List Card The next button labeled Sort sorts the contents of this card in alphanumeric order The bottom right button labeled Close closes the card If the number of nodes linked with the target with a specific kind of link exceeds a thousand a cut off happens which means that in this case the Many List Card contains only the one thousand first nodes of this kind and the user is warned for this event In the current version this limit is checked for classes instances IsA super classes and sub classes of the target while the rest of the link categories are regarded as one group In a future release each category will be checked separately The same cut off happens also in the contents of every Object Card November 2000 v2 3 33 ICS FORTH SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual Instances Card olx Toledo Copenhagen Germany Mainland of Greece aj Greece Creta loannina Macedonia Eptanesa bd Find Sort Close Figure 24 Instances Many List Card November 2000 v2 3 34 ICS FORTH SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual 7 4 2 Classification Tree Display all the subclasses of the given class at schema level The remaining choices of the Tree Views menu are recursive queries displayed as graphs Some of them require a specified kind of target A ch
4. History Card dol x 1 G_Star_View_ON_spatha5691 2 G_Star View ON Greece 3 G_Star View_ON Place 5 T_List_All_Collections_ON 6 G_Star_View_ON_Islamic collection oft Find Close Figure 7 The History List window You can scroll it bottom up You can close the History List using the Close button placed on the bottom right of the window which is provided for this reason This button does not minimize the window to an icon as the Close button from the frame menu By clicking the left mouse button on it the history window disappears If you press the History button while the history window is already on the screen then the current window disappears and a new one appears with the same characteristics The History List is updated whenever you execute a graphical or textual query The format of a query in the list is State Query when the query does not need a target State Query ON Target when the query needs a target State is T or G for textual or graphical query respectively Query is the type of the query e g StarView List_All_ Files Target is the target on which the query is executed You can re execute a previously selected query by clicking the left mouse button on the respective line of the History List Then the query type is changed to Query and the query target is updated to Target if the currently selected query needs a target otherwise it is not changed The textual queries set the
5. having additional properties of its own or by restricting the value ranges of the inherited ones Finally every object entity or relation has a unique identifier 1 3 The SIS User Interface The SIS User Interface cooperates with the query processor of the SIS base Information can be retrieved from the SIS base by executing one of a set of built in queries that are offered as a menu of Choices by the interface The query processor November 2000 v2 3 5 ICS FORTH SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual extracts data from the SIS base and displays the result on the screen The result can be seen in two ways graphically on the window of the graphical subsystem explained below or textually on a text window There are many types of predefined queries some of them are graphical display the result in graphical mode while others are textual display the result in textual mode The current selection of the query type is displayed by the query type field which is always visible A query may have one parameter on which it operates or may have none This parameter referenced in the following as Query Target must be an object existing in the SIS base The Query Target is always visible and can be changed in multiple ways by the user November 2000 v2 3 6 ICS FORTH SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual 2 Design and usage of the User Interface Initially the window shown in Figure 1 is created It is a wind
6. Defining ordering priority The user can define different colors for attributes of a class S he can also define the order that they will appear on a graph or Object card We can not define an order for an object card different than that of a graph E g we have a class A with attributes al a2 a3 a4 and we want to give different colors to them as well as to appear with the order a2 al a3 a4 on a graph and object card First of all we click on the Category Name button In the Specify Class field we type the class name A From the Select Category menu next to Specify Class field we chose an attribute for the specified class We chose al we chose the color we want we make the priority 1 using the up down arrows and finally e press the Add Modify button We make the same for the a2 attribute with priority 0 since we want it to appear first and priorities 2 and 3 for a3 a4 correspondingly Finally we press OK button If we want to modify a color or priority we pick the wanted attribute by clicking on it in the list and e change the color or priority and at the end press Add Modify button If we want to delete an entry we click on it and press the Remove button November 2000 v2 3 28 ICS FORTH SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual Options Colors Fonts seoores Options DSFMDescriptor DSFM_BT TMFRDescriptor TMFR_BT ETFMDescriptor ETFM_BT DSFMHierarchyTerm DSFM_RT TMFRHierarchyTerm TMFR_RT e J E
7. Info Area displays the current state of the tool It consists of the following subareas The Query Target is a single line text editor with common behavior used to display and update the query target i e the SIS base object or link on which a query is applied on To change the query target initially empty clear the current query target by using the BackSpace or Delete keys and write a new one The first query that will use the Query Target will check if the string is a name of an object or a link existing in the database If not a warning appears and the query target has to be changed In case of a link target the full name of the link must be written starting with the name of the from object following with the gt symbol and the link name s e g Object_name gt link_name The Query Target may also be changed automatically by operations that are explained below The button Exec used for executing the last graphical query type selection on the Query Target again This is useful especially when the Query Target has just been changed and we want to execute the last graphical query selection on the new target or when the SIS base contents are modified during a working session The button History a popup frame is used for retrieving previous query commands see section 6 1 The button Find is used to display the Pattern Search Card which is used to search a pattern in the textual or graphical window see section 4 3 The la
8. appears bottom left By clicking this box with the left mouse button a card labeled Instances Card appears in which the instances of the central node are listed The objects listed in the Instances Card are selectable with the left mouse button At the bottom left corner of the Instances Card there exist a button labeled Find which offers the same facility described in section 4 3 and its scope is limited within the objects referenced in the Instances Card The next button labeled Sort sorts the contents of this card in alphanumeric order The bottom right button labeled Close closes the card The attribute of the central object are shown on the right of it while on it s left exist the attributes by which the central node is referenced The format of the attribute representation has the following semantics The rectangles denote objects classes of objects etc the diamonds refer to the categories of the attributes i e the classes the links belong to the ovals to the labels of the attributes which may not exist if they are system generated and not specified by the user The result of a StarView query can be seen in Figure 22 This graphical query always needs a query target found in the Query Target window The StarView graph is equivalent to the ObjectCard in the sense that it presents all the immediate information about an object and it does not show all the applicable fields for an object but only thos
9. meaning e Split Level Control When ON its current value determines the minimum level of splitting This means that if this level equals to n then every node of the graph that is to be displayed is checked if it has n or more links that point to it If this happens this node is repeated at the graph so many times as the number of the above links One repetition see Figure 26 and Figure 27 for example is marked with the letter M multiple and the rest with a reference counter increasing number of replications In this way we avoid the existence of n or more links that point to any node of the graph As a result we eliminate possible confusion especially in the case of large graphs For example in Figure 26 the split level is 2 i e if more than two links point to the same node then the node is splited and is repeated in the graph In the case that are links originating from the multiple node then they are assigned to the node marked with the letter M and not from its repetitions The Figure 26 is before the splitting and Figure 27 with split level Split Control Card ioj x Min 2 Max 10 Thesaurus Management System File Edit View Tree Views Queries Retrieval Tools Wim Level 2 m IV ON Query Target aTouideTerm Apply Close N AATThesaurusConcept lt NeSaurusConcent AATGuideTerm lt AA THerarchyterni mererchyterm EnglishTerm b AATTerm Term gt AATThesaurusNotion gt ThesaurusNotion AATThesaurusExpression j
10. target specified in the query target area of the main window is copied at the end of the respective text editor The user should then fill in the respective logical operator that combines the new object with the previous ones On the lower left part of the search card there is one more pushbutton labeled Execute Once the user has filled all the text editors with appropriate objects this button can be pressed By pressing it the following operation is performed The objects that the user has filled in each text editor are given as target to a predefined query The logical operations are then performed according to the operators that the user has provided These steps are repeated for all text editors and their results are then merged using the logical AND operation The final results are then presented in the textual window If one of the text editors is left empty it is ignored during query execution Before execution of the actual query a checking is performed in order to verify that all objects exist in the database and that they match the type of objects that the respective label indicates If one of the objects in the text editors does not exist in the database or it does not belong to the proper type of objects it is ignored during query execution and the user is appropriately warned The system automatically maps the text window during the execution of the query if it is not already mapped It also updates the label of the executed que
11. with bended lines In this case a line becomes two or more in order to have minimum overlapping with the nodes November 2000 v2 3 24 ICS FORTH SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual The default graph output state is Simple Lines Thesaurus Management System OF Xx ae Tree Views Queries Retrieval Tools Window Text Output Graph Layout Depth Split Query Tar Text View Options Figure 16 Graph Layout submenu 7 3 3 Depth See section 4 1 7 3 4 Split See section 4 2 7 3 5 Options This option is a new possibility that has been added in the SIS GAIN regarding the possibility of customization of the System User Interface It is activated via View menu It is a notebook like window with five different pages cards These are the following e Colors e Fonts e Categories Options e General Options Their functionality is described below 7 3 5 1 Colors The colors of the User Interface and of Object Card can be changed through this card see Figure 17 The areas we can change the color are November 2000 v2 3 25 ICS FORTH SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual e Working Area Query Results or Text Input Areas e Menu Area menus menu items e Frame Area the rest areas of SIS and Object card Use Click on the corresponding button for the area its color you want to change A color chooser is opened and after selecting the desired color
12. you quit by pressing the OK button i Options OF Xx cae rents Categories Options General Options User Interface Colors Object Card Colors Frame Area E Frame Area _ Menu Area _ Menu Area il Working Area Working Area _ pape OK Cancel Figure 17 Options Card Colors Card 7 3 5 2 Fonts The fonts appearing on the different parts of the User Interface and of Object Card can be changed through this card see Figure 18 The areas we can change the font are A For SIS e Graphical Query Result Tree Views Results e Textual Query Result Queries Results November 2000 v2 3 26 ICS FORTH SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual e Text Input Area area in which we can type text e Labels of Text Input The labels for the text input areas e g Query Target e Title Labels the font of titles e g Items e Buttons text appearing on buttons e g Find e Menus text on menus B For Object Card e Title the title of the Object card e Labels the names of categories e Values the values of categories Use Click on the corresponding button for the area its font you want to change A font chooser is opened and after selecting the desired font family face and size you quit by pressing the OK button Options of Xx Colors categories Options General Options User Interface Fonts Graphical Query Result Arial Medium 8 Set Font Textual Query Result Courier New Mediu
13. Max 10 Level 2 m V ON Apply Close Figure 3 The Split Control frame The query depth and graph spitting mechanisms are discussed in further detail in Section 7 4 2 since their affection is better understood within the context of the Tree Views provided by GAIN 4 3 Find The user has the possibility to search for a pattern in either the textual or the graphical subwindow By pushing the Find button a card is opened which consists of the following parts see Figure 4 e A single line text editor where the user can enter the string he or she wants to search for By pressing ENTER or the pushbutton Find see below the first Pattern Find Close Figure 4 The Find window occurrence of the pattern in the textual or graphical window whichever of the two is mapped on screen is found displayed and highlighted If the pattern does not exist in the current window the user is appropriately warned e A pushbutton Find used to repeat the search for the pattern as many times the user wants By pressing repeatedly on this button the next occurrences of the pattern on screen are found and highlighted This can also be achieved by pressing ENTER in the text editor of the card When the last word containing the pattern is found the search continues from the beginning of the screen that is the search is performed in circular mode e A pushbutton Close used to close the Find card One Find button with just th
14. S VERSIONS November 2000 v2 3 4 23 23 24 25 25 25 25 26 28 29 30 31 35 44 45 45 45 45 46 46 48 ICS FORTH SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual 1 Introduction 1 1 General information The SIS system was developed at the Institute of Computer Science Foundation of Research and Technology Hellas as a generic user interface for information retrieval from a SIS base Information is organized in SIS as a knowledge base according to a specifically designed semantic model The construction of SIS allows extremely dense linking of information access by unlimited chained references expression of specific context e g historical and cultural context as well as of abstract properties joint temporal and spatial assignment in absolute or relative terms and recording alternative possibly conflicting information along with the respective sources Information is presented in graphical or textual form An extensible list of predefined queries is offered A particularly important feature is the uniform treatment of schema and data enabling the immediate extension and modification of the schema by the users themselves SIS can be characterized as open system in the sense that it involves a variable system of knowledge chiefly addressed to the museum curator or the researcher and from which closed information bases for the public can be generated Finally it offers an interface to an administrative docu
15. SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual Version 2 3 Institute of Computer Science Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1 General information 1 2 Knowledge representation in the SIS system 1 3 The SIS User Interface 2 DESIGN AND USAGE OF THE USER INTERFACE 2 1 Menu Bar 2 2 Query Info Area 2 3 Query Results Area 2 4 Output Control Area 3 MOUSE BUTTON USAGE CONVENTIONS 4 OUTPUT CONTROL FUNCTIONS 4 1 Controlling the Depth of Recursive Queries 4 2 Splitting Graphs 4 3 Find 5 QUERY RESULTS DISPLAY 5 1 Object Card 6 HISTORY 6 1 History 7 MENU BAR FUNCTIONS 7 1 File 7 1 1 Save 7 1 2 Save As 7 1 3 Page Setup 7 1 4 Print 7 1 5 Exit 7 2 Edit 7 2 1 Copy 7 2 2 Select All 7 2 3 Find November 2000 v2 3 3 10 11 11 11 12 13 13 16 16 ICS FORTH SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual 7 3 View 7 3 1 Text Output 7 3 2 Graph Layout 7 3 3 Depth 7 3 4 Split 7 3 5 Options 7 3 5 1 Colors 7 3 5 2 Fonts 7 3 5 3 Categories Options 7 3 5 4 General Options 7 4 Tree Views 7 4 1 Star View 7 4 2 Classification Tree 7 5 Queries 7 5 1 General Queries 7 5 1 1 Special Kinds 7 5 1 2 General Kinds 7 5 1 3 Object Kind 7 6 Retrieval 7 7 Tools 7 8 Window 7 8 1 Text 7 8 2 Graph 7 8 3 Global View 7 8 4 History Of Commands 7 8 5 Object Card APPENDIX A CHANGES FROM PREVIOU
16. TFMHierarchyTerm ETFM_RT TMFRHierarchyTerm TMFR_exact_equivalence to_ETFh TMFRHierarchyTerm TMFR_narrower_equivalence to_E TMFRHierarchyTerm TMFR_broader_equivalence to_ET TMFRHierarchyTerm TMFR_partial_equivalence to_ETFt TMFRHierarchyTerm TMFR_narrower_equivalence to_ TMFRHierarchyTerm TMFR_exact_equivalence to_DSFt TMFRHierarchyTerm TMFR_partial_equivalence to_DSF TMFRHierarchyTerm TMFR_broader_equivalence to_D ETFMHierarchyTerm ETFM_exact_equivalence to_DSFh ETFMHierarchyTerm ETFM exact equivalence to TMFF Jv Visibility 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Fc ccc rC UNCSN NCYW SUCOWVG Figure 19 Options Card Categories Options Card 7 3 5 4 General Options In this card all the system environment variables that can be defined from the user have been put together see Figure 20 These variables regard characteristics that determine a graph appearance the lines thickness shadows e t c November 2000 v2 3 29 ICS FORTH SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual Options Iof Xx Colors Fonts Categories Options Ge Variables ARROW LEN 10 ARROW RATIO 0 3 ARROW _TIPLENGTH 3 0 ARROW _TIPRATIO 03 BOX_LTYPE 0 BOX_LVWIDTH 0 BOX_COLOR 84 BOX_DEPTH1 1 BOX_DEPTH2 1 BOX_MOD 1 BOX_OFFSET 0 2 CATEGS_NUM 22 COLOR_FLAG 1 DETAIL_LEVEL 1 FONT_HEIGHT 3 0 Sa F New Value Figure 20 Options Card General Options Card
17. bel beneath the Query Target used for displaying the current query type see e g StarView in Figure 22 At startup the query type is TextView The label Items and a number which indicates the cardinality of the answer set of a query Initially there are 0 items November 2000 v2 3 8 ICS FORTH SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual 2 3 Query Results Area The Query Results Area is the area where the result of a query is displayed This area can be scrolled left right or bottom up in case that the result is too big to fit in the given window size A query is either textual or graphical i e its results are displayed in text or in graph form In order to display the results of a textual query we use a scrollable text window while to display the results of a graphical query a graphical subsystem is used to draw the graphs The Query Results Area can be toggled between the two windows with different display modes without loosing the contents 2 4 Output Control Area The button Text switches the Query Results Area in textual mode Whenever this button is pressed the display mode is switched in textual mode if already in textual mode nothing happens and the result of the last executed textual query appears on the Query Results Area Al The button Graph switches the Query Results Area in graphical mode Whenever this button is pressed the display mode is switched in graphical mode if already in graphical mode nothing ha
18. bles or disables the depth control mechanism e The Level Box which displays the query depth level You can set the desired depth level by either using the Up and Down Arrow Buttons or typing a number between 1 and 80 and pressing Enter e The Apply button is used to re execute the current query and refresh the display according to any new settings e The Close button used to close the frame Depth Control Card iof x Min 1 Max 80 Level io Iv ON Apply Close Figure 2 The Depth Control Frame 4 2 Splitting Graphs In some cases the layout of specific graphs lacks readability due to a number of nodes with high fun in number of links pointing to them GAIN provides a graph splitting mechanism for improving the readability of such graphs Tuning of this mechanism can be done using the Split Control frame which consists of the following elements e The ON OFF toggle button which enables or disables the splitting mechanism e The Level Box which displays the maximum node fun in You can set the desired maximum node fun in by either using the Up and Down Arrow Buttons or typing a number between 2 and 10 and pressing Enter e The Apply button is used to re execute the current query and refresh the display according to any new settings e The Close button used to close the frame November 2000 v2 3 11 ICS FORTH SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual Split Control Card iof x Min 2
19. display mode to text and the graphical queries set the display mode to graph This causes the result of the selected query to be displayed on the screen immediately So by choosing a previous query you can change implicitly the query target the current query type and the current display mode November 2000 v2 3 17 ICS FORTH SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual 7 Menu Bar Functions 7 1 File By pressing the File button a pulldown menu appears on the screen see Figure 8 Thesaurus Management System ioj x AGEE Edt Yiew Tree Views Queries Retrieval Tools Window Save Save As Page Setup Print Exit Figure 8 File Menu 7 1 1 Save This option is provided in order to give the ability to the user to save the result of a query in a file By selecting the Save button a window called Save File appears on the screen see Figure 9 It is a file selection box with standard behavior If you select this button while a Save File window is already on the screen then the current window disappears and a new one appears with the same characteristics When the system is in textual mode the Save option provided in this window causes the last textual query result to be saved in the selected file having the same format as it would be displayed on the screen see View menu Text Output choice When the system is in graphical mode the Save option causes the last graphical query re
20. duals Place Figure 5 Object Card window The classes the object belongs to They are listed by the label Belongs to For example in Figure 5 the Metaclasses that class Place belongs to are RootClass AbsoluteCoordinate SpatialMeasureType and Location November 2000 v2 3 14 ICS FORTH SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual The attributes of the object They are listed in the following format the categories of the attributes i e the classes the attribute belongs to are listed by the label Properties If they are more than one they are separated by commas In the next line follows the name of the attribute if there exist one and the value of the attribute separated from the name by a semicolon In Figure 5 the attribute placeName of class Place belongs to the categories name and dependent and takes values from class PlaceName The REFERENCED field is subdivided into the following areas The subclasses of the object If the object is a class then by the label As subclasses by are listed all it s subclasses In Figure 5 the subclasses of class Place are Address RelPlace Event and Period The instances of the object If the object is a class then by the label As instance of by are listed all it s instances In Figure 5 the instances of class Place are Sfakia Souli Kallarites Ithaca The attributes of other objects that have the object as a value They follow the format As lt categor
21. e card is declared the name of the object The rest is divided into two November 2000 v2 3 13 ICS FORTH SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual main fields the DESCRIPTION field with the description elements of this object and the REFERENCED field with all the description elements of other objects which refer to this object The DESCRIPTION field is subdivided into the following areas The superclasses of the object If the object is a class then all it s superclasses are listed by the label Has as superclasses In class Place does not have any superclasses so there exists no such label The ObjectCard does not show all the applicable fields of an object but only those which have values Place lel Es Media rme Y ge aE x Place Belongs to Absohite Coordinate SpatialMeasureType Location Root Class Superclass of Address RelPlace Event Period Properties tmam_characteristic spatial_characteristic wathin Place border Place overlaps Place name dependent placeName PlaceName default_ef Place The object is referenced As instance of by press Instances button As attribute by the Telos_ Objects Language spokenIn Material used_m_place As spatial_characteristic by the Indniduals Person hyving_place As mamn_characteristic spatial_characteristic by the Indwiduals Place vathin Place border Place overlaps RelPlace relToPlace Period region Event place As default_et by the Indivi
22. e same functionality is also attached to every Object Card see section 5 1 and Many List Card see section 7 4 Figure 24 for searching a pattern within each of their text windows November 2000 v2 3 12 ICS FORTH SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual 5 Query Results Display There are two modes in which the system can be textual and graphical As a consequence there are also two kinds of queries textual and graphical The textual queries are found under the menu option Queries and the graphical queries are found under the menu option Tree Views See sections 7 4 and 7 5 respectively for more details For each of the two modes there are internal variables that store the name of the last executed query and the cardinality of the resulting answer set These variables displayed on the current query type label and the item label are updated every time a new query is executed either textual or graphical See Figure 1 As mentioned above the user can switch between textual and graphical mode by using the Text Graph toggle button When the mode changes the current query label and item label are also changed to be consistent with the query result currently displayed Apart from this explicit mechanism of changing mode there are also implicit ones When the system is in textual mode and a graphical query is executed the system automatically switches to graphical mode and vice versa Another implicit mechanism for chang
23. e that have a value November 2000 v2 3 31 ICS FORTH SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual The title StarView is displayed in the Query type of the Query Info Area while the Items label shows a which is displayed only in the case of a StarView Thesaurus Management System Tre a K Events belongs_to_aat_hierarchy letter_code KM Figure 22 Star View In case of a link target a start view graph contains also the from and to values of this link see Figure 23 Period and Place are the from and to values of link region November 2000 v2 3 32 ICS FORTH SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual Semantic Index System iof x File Edit View Tree Views Queries Retrieval Tools Window Star View spatial_characteristic Ei main_characteristic Period region Place INSTANCES Figure 23 Star View of a link A star view graph may contain a large number of nodes linked with the target node with the same kind of link that cannot be displayed inside the graphical window In this case this set of nodes is represented in the graph with a single node labeled MANY lt category gt If this node is clicked with the left mouse button a Many List Card see Figure 24 is opened The objects listed in the Many List Card are selectable with the left mouse button At the bottom left corner of the Many List Card there exist a button labeled
24. ecking is performed when the menu is mapped on screen in order to verify that the given query target is of the kind that the queries require All queries that require a different kind of target that the one present in the Query Target area automatically become inactive The usage of the Depth Level control makes sense in all the above options of this menu except the first two StarView and Classification Tree We explain its meaning e Depth Level Control When ON its current value determines the maximum depth of the graph that is to be displayed If a graph is cut at some nodes due to the above value these nodes are presented to be linked with a circle to indicate that other objects follow them see Figure 25 Middle mouse button click on the parent of a circle sets the Query Target to that node and executes the same query so that the previously not shown subtree is displayed When OFF infinite depth is considered Thesaurus Management System ioj x File Edit Yiew Tree Views Queries Retrieval Tools Window Broader Term Tree Items 5 Depth Control Card Ioj x Min 1 Max 80 Level f m IV ON Apply Close Figure 25 Example of a cut graph due to depth control November 2000 v2 3 35 ICS FORTH SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual The usage of the Split Level control makes sense in all the above options of this menu except the first two StarView and Classification Tree We explain its
25. fx Hla a m Properties Name Status Ready Type Apple Laserwriter Ilg 2010 113 Where pleiades isstqs Comment T Print to file m Print range pat Copies l All a Number of copies fi Pages from 0 tofo R Selection Cancel Figure 11 Print window November 2000 v2 3 20 ICS FORTH SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual 7 1 5 Exit This option exits the program The user is warned if s he wants to cancel see Figure 12 N Exit For Sure Figure 12 Confirm Exit Window November 2000 v2 3 21 ICS FORTH SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual 7 2 Edit Thesaurus Management System Figure 13 Edit menu 7 2 1 Copy Copies the contents of the Query Results Area in the clipboard 7 2 2 Select All Selects the contents of the Query Results Area 7 2 3 Find See section 4 3 November 2000 v2 3 22 ICS FORTH SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual 7 3 View File Edt BUGSA Tree Views Queries Retrieval Tools Window Text Output d Graph Layout Depth Split Query Tar Text View Options Figure 14 View menu 7 3 1 Text Output By selecting the Text Output button a pulldown menu appears on the screen see Figure 15 which gives two choices named Formatted and Unformatted You can set the text output to be in one of these two states When you select
26. ing mode is provided by the History option see section 6 1 Textual queries are displayed in a standard scrollable text window In order to display the result of a graphical query the LABY graphical subsystem is used It consists of a window with horizontally and vertically scrolling ability In this window the result of a graphical query is displayed as a graph of nodes and links The following selections can be made in both display modes 1 Click the left mouse button on a node link The node link becomes query target and the Query Target field in the Query Info Area is updated to display the new selected value 2 Click the middle mouse button on a node link The node link becomes query target the Query Target field in the Query Info Area is updated to display the new selected value and the current query type is executed on the new query target Selection 2 has the same result as choosing selection 1 and left clicking with the mouse on the Exec button 3 Click the right mouse button on a node link A textual description of this node link the object s Object Card appears on the screen see Figure 5 In the current implementation of the system links are also selectable so when we refer to objects we consider nodes or links 5 1 Object Card The Object Card of an object contains the textual description for this object The object card shows the complete information that is immediately related to this object On the top of th
27. m Modern 8 Set Font Text Input Areas Arial Medium 8 Set Font Labels Of Text Input Arial Medium 8 Set Font Title Labels Arial Medium 8 Set Font Buttons Arial Medium 3 Set Font Menus Arial Medium 8 Set Font Object Card Fonts Title Arial Bold 10 __SetFont Labels Arial Medium 8 __SetFont Values Arial Bold 8 Serot ps ia OK Cancel i Figure 18 Options Card Fonts Card November 2000 v2 3 27 ICS FORTH SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual 7 3 5 3 Categories Options Through this card the user can define the color the nodes and links will appear in the various graphs of the User Interface The user can also give priority in order to define the order will appear at Star View and Object card see Figure 19 Node coloring The user can define that all the instances of a class will be colored in a graph with the same color This is done as following described We click on the Class Name button Following we type the name of the class beyond the Specify Class We chose the color and priority via the Color and Priority menus correspondingly Finally we press the Add Modify button and our choice is inserted in the list Current version supports four different colors If we want to modify a class color or priority we click on the class entry we change the color or priority and we press the Add Modify button If we want to delete a class we click on it and press the Remove button Link coloring
28. mediate Subclasses Facets Object Kind gt Hierarchies r Terms gt Consistency Checking gt Figure 29 Special kinds queries submenu November 2000 v2 3 39 ICS FORTH SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual 7 5 1 2 General Kinds This submenu contains queries relevant to the generalization hierarchy It consists of the following two queries List All Superclasses Lists all general kinds superclasses of a kind class List Immediate Superclasses Lists the immediate general kinds superclasses of a kind class Thesaurus Management System Oy Xx Eile Edit View Tree Views Queries Retrieval Tools Window General Kinds Hererhi m TEA sd eA Report x fay General Queries Special Kinds gt i ObjectKind List Immediate Superclasses Thesauri Facets Hierarchies Terms Consistency Checking Text View Se So aad Figure 30 General kinds queries submenu November 2000 v2 3 40 ICS FORTH SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual 7 5 1 3 Object Kind This submenu contains queries relevant to the classification hierarchy It consists of the following two queries List Objects of Kind Lists all the instances of a kind class List Kind of Object Lists all the kinds classes of an object Thesaurus Management System Queries General Queries Figure 31 Objects kinds queries submenu November 2000 v2 3 41 ICS FORTH SIS Graphical Analysis In
29. mentation system 1 2 Knowledge representation in the SIS system The formatted documentation data are structured according to a model that renders an appropriate ontology and is expressed in a particular knowledge representation language The structural part of the Telos knowledge representation language is used for representing knowledge in SIS This offers the general mechanisms of attribution classification and generalization common in all the so called semantic conceptual or object oriented representation methods and in addition it supports unbounded classification hierarchies and equal treatment of relations and entities resulting in great expressiveness and flexibility Attribution is a general mechanism for representing the properties of an object as relations between the object and the value ranges of the properties also considered as objects Classification defines classes of objects on the basis of common properties An atomic object is declared as instance member of one or more classes Classes are themselves considered as objects sets instances of meta classes sets of sets and so on Thus levels of classification are distinguished tokens classes meta classes etc Generalization defines a subclass superclass relation between classes at the same level of classification characterized by the inheritance of properties when class A is subclass of B it inherits all the properties of B and is differentiated from it either by
30. ommands See section 6 1 for more details 7 8 5 Object Card This option opens the Object Card of the Query Target object See section 5 1 for more details November 2000 v2 3 46 ICS FORTH SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual November 2000 v2 3 47 ICS FORTH SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual Appendix A Changes from previous versions In the process of redesigning the User Interface in order to be Windows like some objects changed their placement e g buttons moved into menus Also additional functionality was added in order to have a complete product Enable mechanism for printing the query results textual or graphical and enable the split mechanism for graphs Changes from version 1 3 to version 2 0 In this version Win 32 platforms Win NT and Win 95 are now supported in client server version The new card called Options was added in the program in order to have the possibility to change parameters concerning the customization of the User Interface e g colors fonts nodes and links color See section 7 3 5 Changes from version 2 0 to version 2 1 Changes took place for fixing malfunctions of the program Also user friendly functionality was added The minimized windows go on the taskbar pressing the X button on the windows close the windows normally and so on Changes from version 2 1 to version 2 2 Redesign of the User Interface took place So the whole func
31. ow with frame title bar minimize maximize and menu buttons with default behavior Thesaurus Management System OF Xx File Edit View Tree Views Queries Retrieval Tools Window Query Target Text View Figure 1 Initial window of the User Interface The window is divided in the following areas 2 1 Menu Bar The basic options that the SIS User Interface provides appear in a Menu Bar consisting of eight menus File a pulldown menu with options that are used for file and program operations Edit a pulldown menu with options offering text operations on the Query Result Area View a pulldown menu containing options for controlling the appearance of User Interface and also settings that affect the graph and text output November 2000 v2 3 7 ICS FORTH Es SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual Tree Views a pulldown menu with options that are used for controlling the display mode and executing predefined recursive queries displayed in graphical mode Queries a pulldown menu with options that are used for executing predefined queries shown in textual mode Retrieval a pulldown menu with options that are used for queries by classification facets Tools a pulldown menu with options for communication with external tools Window a pulldown menu with options that give all the available output representations In section 7 the above options are described in detail 2 2 Query Info Area The Query
32. ppens and the result of the last executed graphical query appears on the Query Results Area November 2000 v2 3 9 ICS FORTH SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual 3 Mouse Button Usage Conventions The mouse button is used uniformly When the mouse is in a sensitive area like the Object Card or the Query Result Area buttons work as follows the left button sets the name of the selected node link to the current query target the middle button sets the name of the selected node link to the current query target and the query type reflected by the current graphical query label is executed on this query target the right button pops up a window the Object Card containing the textual description of this node link On any other case the mouse works as follows the left button triggers the command push buttons thus initiating the actions attached to them With two button mouse devices by double clicking the left button simulates the middle button November 2000 v2 3 10 ICS FORTH SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual 4 Output Control Functions 4 1 Controlling the Depth of Recursive Queries GAIN provides a mechanism for controlling the query depth level i e the maximum number of levels of a graph which are to be retrieved and displayed This mechanism is accessible through the Depth Control Frame which consists of the following elements e The ON OFF toggle button which ena
33. query The cardinality of this answer set is displayed on the right of the label Items The queries may either need or not an object of a certain kind as query target In the first case the user must provide the system with one in the query target area A checking is performed when the menu is mapped on screen in order to verify that the given query target is of the kind that the queries require All queries that require a different kind of target that the one present in the Query Target area automatically become inactive November 2000 v2 3 38 ICS FORTH SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual 7 5 1 General Queries This menu includes queries which can be applied in every object of the database They are concerned with the generalization specialization and the classification instantiation relationships It consists of the following three submenus 7 5 1 1 Special Kinds This submenu contains queries relevant to the specialization hierarchy It consists of the following two queries List All Subclasses Lists all special kinds subclasses of a kind class List Immediate Subclasses Lists the immediate special kinds subclasses of a kind class Thesaurus Management System ojx Fie Edit Yiew Tree Views Queries Retrieval Tools Window Te Hierarchi m Query Target RREA Report a w mae slal General Queries Special Kinds ListAllSubclasses Text View Thesauri gt General Kinds gt List Im
34. ry with the title Conditional Search and the Items label with the cardinality of the answer set The search card can be closed by pressing the pushbutton labeled Close on lower right of the card November 2000 v2 3 43 ICS FORTH SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual 7 7 Tools Options related to external tool calls are defined by the user and stored in the SIS base For a description of the external tool bindings refer to SIS Binding with External Tools Thesaurus Management System ioj Xx File Edit View Tree Views Queries pals Query Target MERIMEE Expert User Entry Forms Text view ICCD Simple User Entry Forms ICCD Expert User Entry Forms DAMD Simple User Entry Forms DAMD Expert User Entry Forms RCHME Simple User Entry Forms RCHME Expert User Entry Forms Figure 34 Tools menu For example selecting one of the options of the Tools menu calls Entry Form EF which is a tool used for the interactive update of the Semantic Index System SIS see SIS Entry Form User s Manual Entry Form pafe x TaskList Describe Object Describe Objects Aspect Describe Unclassified Super user Figure 35 Entry Form EF November 2000 v2 3 44 ICS FORTH SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual 7 8 Window By pressing the Window button a pulldown menu with options that give all the available output representations appears on the screen see Figure 35 Semantic Inde
35. sult to be saved in the selected file in postscript format November 2000 v2 3 18 ICS FORTH SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual Save As HOW F Anthivolo bat HYPERTOUR bat gt CIDOC bat ReadMe tst CLIO bat fe RundnyE xpandT able bat File name contents txt Save as type Jal files 7 Cancel Figure 9 The Save window 7 1 2 Save As This option is provided in order to give the ability to the user to save the result of a query in a different file than the previous one By selecting the Save As button the window called Save As appears on the screen see Figure 9 November 2000 v2 3 19 ICS FORTH SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual 7 1 3 Page Setup This option is provided in order to give the ability to the user to setup the printer and the paper layout see Figure 10 Note This window appears under WIN32 system Print Setup HEI Printer rs Properties Name Status Ready Type Apple Laserwriter Ilg 2010 113 Where Apleiades isstqs Comment Paper SS oe Size A4 v n Portrait Source Automatically Select C Landscape Network Cancel L Figure 10 Page Setup window 7 1 4 Print This option is provided in order to give the ability to the user to print the result of a query on a printer see Figure 11 Note This window appears under WIN32 system Print 2
36. terface User s Manual 7 6 Retrieval File Edit View Tree Views Queries Moc Tools Window Query Target IK _Nane Searcn_ gg Y E Star View items E AATFacet letter_code s K Figure 32 Retrieval menu By pressing the Retrieval button a new card labeled Search Card appears on the screen see Figure 32 Type Fill Name Execute Close Figure 33 The Search Card window The search card consists of several single line text editors each of them is accompanied by a label on the left side and a pushbutton Fill on the right side The number of the text editors and of the other widgets depends on the number of predefined retrieval queries the user has written There is also a label on top of the card Name Search in figure All labels are user defined and depend on the description of the predefined queries in the SIS base The labels of the text editors indicate the type of objects the user should enter in each one to perform the query The queries depend entirely on the model and can be November 2000 v2 3 42 ICS FORTH SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual configured by the user as described in SIS Query Interpreter An Interactive Program to use API Functions The user can fill one or more object names in each text editor and combine them with the logical operators signifying logical AND and V signifying logical OR By pressing one of the fill buttons the query
37. the Unformatted state the result of textual queries are displayed in simple form which consists of the presentation of only the nodes existing in the answer set In this case the full names of the nodes are displayed on screen When you select the Formatted state additional information about these nodes is displayed This information is presented in form of columns Each column corresponds to an attribute of the nodes in the answer set In this case the kind of each attribute appears as a label above the corresponding column Long names may be abbreviated before they are displayed on screen November 2000 v2 3 23 ICS FORTH SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual The default text output state is Formatted Thesaurus Management System lel Fe File Edt Buara Tree Views Queries Retrieval Tools Window Text Output Biv Formatted Graph Layout b Unformatted Depth Split Query Tar Text View Options Figure 15 Text Output submenu 7 3 2 Graph Layout By selecting the Graph Layout button a pulldown menu appears on the screen see Figure 16 which gives two choices named Simple Lines and Bended Lines You can set the graph output to be in one of these two states When you select the Simple Lines state the result of graphical queries are displayed with straight lines In this case lines overlap with nodes When you select the Bended Lines state the result of graphical queries are displayed
38. tionality inserted into menus and the most used operations became a toolbar See section 7 Printing mechanism was added See sections 7 1 3 7 1 4 Splitting mechanism was enabled See section 4 2 Sibling order was inserted so the links of a given category will appear in the Star View and Object Card in the way the user has sorted them via Entry Forms Using appropriate language configuration files the user can have the program interface and the messages appearing in the desired language Client server version is only supported on all platforms Help for every object can be taken from the Strings Page of the Options Card In the previous version the user had to press the right mouse button on the specified object Changes from version 2 2 to version 2 3 Save ans SaveAs options of file are using the Windows default Save and SaveAs cards Object Card and History of Commands are now available from Windows button In Object Card at alternative state FULL is presented additional information about the references to that the object inherits November 2000 v2 3 48 ICS FORTH SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual In Star View graph and Object Card link objects are also selectable Star View and any other graphical or textual query and Object Card are applicable to link objects November 2000 v2 3 49 ICS FORTH
39. tton Close a pushbutton that closes the Object card November 2000 v2 3 15 ICS FORTH SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual For uniformity and consistency of the user interface the three possible mouse selections that can be made in the Query Results Area see section 3 are valid in the Object Card 1 By clicking the left mouse button on a node link the current query target is updated to the name of this node link 2 By clicking the middle mouse button on a node link the current query target is updated to the name of this node link and the query type reflected by the current graphical query label is executed on the new query target 3 By clicking the right mouse button on a node link a new Object Card appears on the screen The maximum number of Object Cards that can be opened simultaneously is 20 The Object Card of a link contains the same information as in the case of a node and additionally the from and to values of this link see Figure 6 Media sive W Ee a Sa x region From Period To Place Belongs to spatial_characteristic main_characteristic The object is referenced As instance of by press Instances button Figure 6 Object Card window of a link 6 History 6 1 History By pressing the History button a window called History List appears on the screen see Figure 7 November 2000 v2 3 16 ICS FORTH SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual
40. x System OF x File Edit View Tree Views Queries Retrieval Tools Bair in Query Target y Tet z Graph Text View Global View items 0 History Of Commands Object Card Figure 356 Window menu 7 8 1 Text See section 2 3 7 8 2 Graph See section 2 3 7 8 3 Global View This option is provided so that the user can have a global view of the graph presented in the graphical window This is useful when the graph is too large to fit in the window and only a part of it is actually drawn By pressing the Global View button a window called Global View Card appears on screen see Figure It is a window with a drawing area where the global view of the graph currently drawn in the graphical window is shown The portion of the graph that is currently present in the graphical window is highlighted the names of the nodes however are omitted By clicking the left mouse button on a point of this card a new region is highlighted and the graph in the main graphical window is redrawn so that it November 2000 v2 3 45 ICS FORTH SIS Graphical Analysis Interface User s Manual represents the new highlighted portion of the Global View card The Global View card is updated every time a new graphical query is executed so as to present the current graph A pushbutton Close on the lower right of the card allows the user to close it Global View Card BEE Close Figure 37 Global View window 7 8 4 History Of C
41. y or categories separated by comma gt by the lt kind of referencing object gt lt name of the referencing object gt lt name of the attribute gt For example class Place has is referenced among others by attribute place of class Event not shown in Figure 5 This is presented in the ObjectCard in the following manner As mainCharacteristic spatial by the Individuals Event place Attribute categories mainCharacteristic and spatial are the classes the attribute belongs to system class Individual is the kind of the referencing object i e class Event which is the name of the referencing object and finally place is the name of the attribute itself The above description holds when the toggle button on the top left of the ObjectCard is at state SIMPLE In the alternative state FULL is presented additional information about the system classes the object belongs to the classes the attributes are inherited from and the references to that the object inherits On the right of the SIMPLE FULL toggle button exists a search bitmap pushbutton which offers search facilities and has the same functionality described in section 5 1 its scope however is limited within the ObjectCard The button nstances a popup frame is used for giving the instances of the object see section 7 4 1 The button Save a pushbutton opening a file chooser that used for selecting a file for saving the contents of the object see section 7 1 1 The bu
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