Documentation/AnalysisTool/First version

Generalities

Analysis Tool is a widget designed to be used with the purpose to ease user's interaction with Semantic Inline Queries. Tool is mainly focused on top-down kind of wiki ontology, but not only. Simple queries, compound queries and nested queries are possible also.

Notice: Consider, please, that the interface is under development. Any suggestion, notice and critic would be mostly appreciated!--Lia Veja (talk) 16:05, 15 April 2013 (CEST)

How to use the interface?

Interface allows users to stepwise create semantic queries (#ask:).

• Step1: Create a wiki page and insert the following template call:

New: {{#tag:AnalysisTool | This is only text | name = Basil}}
Old: {{Analysis | Name = ''Some name''}}

• Step2: Save the page as usual and an initial form will be shown on the screen.

Initial screen.

Notice: If the screen is not looking that in the following diagram, please click on refresh from browser and MediaWiki button also, until the page is refreshed.

• Step3: Choose Add category or Add property, as you wish.

Selecting Category or property.

• Step4: You can choose instances ( choosing List) or you can filter something choosing Filter radio button.

Selecting list instances or filtered.

• Step5: You can interrelate entities by choosing many panels.

Selecting list instances or filtered.

• Step6: A nested query is also possible, by adding many connected entities (action add category button many times), and after that selecting a property for linking entities by name.

Selecting nested entities.

• Step7: At each of which step, a query will be shown on the bottom of the screen.

Resulted query.

• Step8: Query will be evaluated and executed in background. The query result will be shown on the tab Table.

Results.

• Step9: User can choose additional properties to be shown by checking properties as appropriate.

Additional output properties.

• Entities could be added or removed on demand, you should only click on red button (Del).