DAML Viewer
DAML Viewer provides a means to view the instances found in
a DAML document.
Tutorial
DAML Viewer initially displays a URI Input window
Either browse for a local file or enter the URI of a document containing DAML, e.g.
and then click Fetch to obtain the Nodes View.
The Nodes View provides a list of the URIs for all resources referenced
in the document.
Nodes View provides several menu options
- File->Open URI opens an additional Nodes View on a different URI.
- File->Properties displays the current URI and the number of
resources and statements found in it.
- File->View Source displays the source code for the URI in the
current Nodes View.
- File->Close all node view windows closes all Node View windows
created from this Nodes View.
- File->Exit DAML Viewer either closes and terminates the program,
or merely closes this Nodes View window and its Node Views,
leaving any others open, based on User Input.
- Help->About DAML Viewer displays the current version number.
Clicking on a URI provides a Node View showing all of the statements
involving that node.
The Node View lists all of the statements involving the specified URI.
- Statements marked with a forward arrow ("-->") are those where the URI
in the title bar
is the subject and the Value is the object
- Statements marked with a reverse arrow ("<--") are those where the URI
in the title bar
is the object and the Value is the subject
Node View supports several interactions
- You can click on entries in the Value column to open a Node View
of the indicated node. Literals don't respond to mouse clicks.
- You can click on entries in the the Property column to open a Node View
of the indicated property (if the ontology definitions were also
included in the loaded file).
- You can click on the arrow ("-->" or "<--") for a statement to open
a Node View containing any reified statements made about that statement.
If an error doesn't respond to mouse clicks, no reified statements were
included in the loaded file.
- Close the window by clicking on the X in the upper right-hand corner.
Use as an Applet
DAML Viewer is available as an
applet,
which can be downloaded to run in your browser
(Netscape or Internet Explorer).
It requires the
Java 2.0 Plug-in.
Use as an Application
DAML Viewer is also available as an open source downloadable application.
- Download JDK
1.3 or later,
if you don't have it already.
- Download our slightly modified RDF-API
which does not crash on rdf:datatype
(original).
- Download and unzip
DAML Viewer 2000-11-21.
You can use "jar xvf" to unzip on Unix systems.
- Edit viewer.bat (Windows) or viewer.csh (Unix)
to change any installation path on your system.
- Run viewer.bat or viewer.csh
Authors
Mike Dean
and
Kelly Barber
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