A short introduction of the Ontopia/Liferay integration showing how it works and what it does.

1. Ontopia/Liferay integration Lars Marius Garshol, <larsga@bouvet.no> Matthias Fischer, <matthias.fischer@fhtw-berlin.de>

2. Agenda The integration: why and what Demo

3. Why and what

4. Why integrate? Ontopia Semantic technology Complex metadata Tools for conversion/manipulation/creation Very limited content support Liferay CMS Users, permissions, ... Content features versioning, ... Very limited metadata support Content from Liferay, metadata from Ontopia

5. How it works We want to describe Liferay content in Topic Maps In a topic map, everything is topics Therefore, we need topics for our Liferay content The integration creates this for us automatically

6. Creating and annotating content Liferay Ontopia A Liferay Tutorial A Liferay Tutorial Installing Liferay CE CMS Installing Liferay CE Liferay, Inc. Liferay Liferay CE USA Liferay EE

7. Portal front page Click! Menu portlet Menu portlet Web content portlet Web content portlet Web content portlet Topic tree portlet

8. Article display Menu portlet Menu portlet Web content portlet Related topics portlet Similar content portlet

9. In short Create your content in Liferay Organize it in the topic map

10. Current status Prototype integration built by Matthias Fischer needs some more work before it is complete Working now: synchronization of users and communities web content (with structures) wiki content (partly) some display portlet

11. Demo

12. Set up an ontology First import the Liferay ontology Then enrich it with an ontology for your domain

13. Empty article display in Liferay Click to create article

14. Write content, as usual Click save and continue

15. Now you can tag from the topic map Select topics here. Which fields and topics are displayed is configurable in Ontopoly. (This is Ontopoly, embedded in Liferay.)

16. Tagged

17. The article topic The integration has created this topic for us and will keep it in sync as we make changes in Liferay.

18. Article in Liferay Portlet showing the associations of the article topic. This is all the associations, but the portlet can be configured to hide certain association types. Then we click here ...

19. Topic page in Liferay The page for the “Ontopia” topic. Kind of empty, because this demo is fairly primitive still. Could be populated with all kinds of things.

20. Conclusion It’s still early days, but this should show that we now have the basics working Next step is to clean up, add a bit more functionality, and develop a better demo